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Six Case Western Reserve scientists are part of an international team that discovered two compounds that show promise in decreasing inflammation associated with diseases such as ulcerative colitis, arthritis and multiple sclerosis. The compounds, dubbed OD36 and OD38, specifically appear to…

Provost W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III today announced the appointment of Suzanne M. Rivera as Case Western Reserve’s new vice president for research, effective this month. Rivera, the university’s associate vice president for research since January 2011, emerged as the university’s top choice after an…

Substance abuse counselors and social workers often recommend recovering addicts establish new networks of non-using friends and supporters. But researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s social work school found, for many women in poverty, it’s not so easy to drop the users in their lives.…

Services will be held Tuesday, Nov. 4, for Case Western Reserve Assistant Dean Kenneth L. Klika, a stalwart supporter of the College of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate and graduate students, and the university’s rowing club. Klika, who led space planning and facilities management for the college,…

This fall, Cassi Pittman returned home to Cleveland—the place that sparked her inquiring mind—to teach as an assistant professor of sociology just miles from the places she first learned about the relationship among race, economics and inequality. A native of East Cleveland, Pittman grew up on a…

Case Western Reserve staff can amplify and add to their observations about the university during focus group conversations that start next week. The sessions are designed to build upon information staff provided in an online survey administered just before the beginning of the semester. Working in…

Carbon Origins and Everykey, companies started by Case Western Reserve University students and alumni, were finalists in the first Blackstone LaunchPad Demo Day—a national entrepreneurship contest in New York City. “It’s a phenomenal showing for our entrepreneurship efforts on campus,” said Bob…

It was a dark and chilling night in 2006 when Michele Hanks, a Case Western Reserve University anthropologist and SAGES Fellow, waited for a ghost to appear. She sat, knees to her chin, with a half-dozen people in the lightless upstairs room of the haunted Golden Fleece, a pub in York, England, on…

Case Western Reserve University will present a lecture by Harvard law professor and bestselling author Cass Sunstein, among the most frequently cited legal thinkers in the country. The event, on Monday, Nov. 3, at 6 p.m. in the ballroom of the new Tinkham Veale University Center, is part of the…

For many students at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, finding a way to pay for their advanced nursing degrees just got easier. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded the nursing school a $3.16 million Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)…