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Dale Nenadal started working on campus before it was even Case Western Reserve University. In 1967—just before the federation of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University—he joined the Western Reserve staff as an electrician’s assistant at the age of 19. Since then, he’s seen a nu...

The people charged to help Case Western Reserve envision its future are ready to report back to the campus. No, master plan consultants Sasaki Associates won’t be offering recommendations just yet. But after six months of collecting information through surveys, conversations and even building-to-bu...

Kathryn Geisinger, a third-year law student at Case Western Reserve University, wasn’t quite sure how busy her Monday morning would be. But within the first three hours of the first-ever Juvenile Safe Surrender program in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, there she was, working with defendants in five...

When first arriving on campus, Alexander Razavi, a fourth-year student and aspiring doctor from Fairport, N.Y., didn’t think much about what he ate. His attitude changed after sitting through Mary Holmes’ SAGES seminar, “The Future of Foods.” The seminar shed light on what he consumed and “got me p...

Students in the gross anatomy lab stand with trepidation before their human cadavers, uneasy about making that first cut, writes T. Kenny Fountain in his new book, Rhetoric in the Flesh: Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab (Routledge, 2014). The associate professor of Eng...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing who studied the emotional distress of caring for a family member diagnosed with a mental illness found anxiety is high for the primary caregiver at the initial diagnosis or early in the course of the illness, and...

Some studies have found that life expectancy in the United States can vary as much as 25 years, depending on where you live. Within its broad mission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) aims to attack what the federal agency defines as “place-based” health disparities. CDC Directo...

Senior Taylor Gladys has been an advocate for students at Case Western Reserve University since she first stepped foot on campus more than three years ago. The biochemistry (pre-med) major joined Undergraduate Student Government (USG) as a first-year—serving as a representative for Tyler House—and ...

With the support of a two-year grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), the Case School of Engineering, Weatherhead School of Management and Great Lakes Energy Institute (GLEI) have begun an interdisciplinary pilot graduate-level course on energy and entrepreneur...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is no longer a fatal condition, thanks to newer medications inhibiting the retrovirus, but a puzzling phenomenon has surfaced among these patients: non-AIDS complications. Scientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have resolved the ...