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When Bob Stiller, CEO of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, sought to guide his company toward the next stage of significant growth, he sent his private jet to fetch David L. Cooperrider. Cooperrider, a pioneering organizational behavior professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead…

Students and moviegoers may find a helpful resource in a new pocket-sized guide to better understanding and interpreting film. Case Western Reserve University film scholar Robert Spadoni published A Pocket Guide to Analyzing Films (University of California Press, 2014), a compact overview of the…

Case Western Reserve scientists lead study documenting that two approved FDA drugs disrupt signaling that drives breast tumor growth The uncontrolled growth of cancer cells arises from their ability to hijack the cell’s normal growth program and checkpoints. Usually after therapy, a…

Case Western Reserve University mental health researcher Joseph Galanek spent a cumulative nine months in an Oregon maximum-security prison to learn first-hand how the prison manages inmates with mental illness. What he found, through 430 hours of prison observations and interviews, is that…

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…