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An extraordinary era in neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University comes to a close this month. On June 30, Lynn Landmesser, a literal legend in the field, will step down as chair of the department she has led officially for a decade-and-a-half—and inspired for even longer. A member of the…

In 2010, Wallace “Wally” Gingerich retired as a professor of social work at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Although “retired,” Gingerich didn’t stop serving Case Western Reserve University. He continued teaching as an adjunct professor, while also spearheading…

Without proper infection prevention in hospitals, and now homes, the Clostridium difficile bacteria poses a major health threat, cautions a Case Western Reserve University infection control researcher. While mainly a concern in hospitals, cases of the C. difficile infection (or C. diff) are on the…

Since the Cleveland Play House’s founding in 1915, it yearned to find a place to call home, establish financial stability and define its mission. Those challenges are the backbone of America’s First Regional Theatre: The Cleveland Play House and its Search for a Home (Palgrave Studies in Theatre…

The idea that bacteria in your mouth could prove problematic for the rest of your body proved nearly irresistible for readers of the Journal of Dental Research. The concept, from Yiping Han, professor of periodontics, earned the American Association of Dental Research’s distinction as a research…

Coaxing adult stem cells to grow tendons A Case Western Reserve University engineer won a $1.7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to grow replacement rotator cuffs and other large tendon groups to help heal injured soldiers and athletes, accident victims and an aging population that…

Structure, behavior better explained by galaxy collisions Satellite dwarf galaxies at the edges of the Milky Way and neighboring Andromeda defy the accepted model of galaxy formation, and recent attempts to pigeon-hole them into the model are flawed, an international team of scientists…

Dental medicine has joined the fields of medicine, nursing, psychology, social work and others to develop evidence-based practices that are the gold standards of patient care, according to a Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researcher. Evidence-based practices evolve from…

For the second year in a row, Case Western Reserve Tuesday set all-time records for both total donors and amount raised in a single 24-hour period. The university’s 2014 Day of Giving attracted 869 contributors, a figure 9 percent higher than last year. They gave $264,203—35 percent and $68,458…

James Zull remembers when a single chain separated Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. The chain was a futile effort to create an illusion of separation. People often stepped right over it to visit someone at the other university, showing that, from the outset, the two…