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In partnership with Bon Appétit Management Co. and CWRU, Matt Fish brings award-winning gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches to first on-campus location with Melt University Melt Bar & Grilled, a Cleveland-area favorite for gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, is going back to school. One of the…

This story could begin in a dark, shadowy place. But it actually occurred in an ordinary school gym with a white sheet and a spotlight. Sixteen SAGES students from Case Western Reserve University recently created magic with shadows at Roxboro Elementary School in Cleveland Heights. It was part of…

Researchers to assess conditions, social services and reporting processes The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded a $2.3 million grant to Case Western Reserve University's social work and medical schools and the College of Arts and Sciences. The…

We all experienced Cleveland’s brutal winter. But for those whose labor is largely outdoors, it felt even worse. While many on campus shivered going from one indoor space to another, these individuals endured the elements for hours at a stretch. They arrived early, stayed late, and were here even…

Discovery allows researchers to study how immune cells ward off oral diseases Case Western Reserve University dental researchers found a less invasive way to extract single rare immune cells from the mouth to study how the mouth’s natural defenses ward off infection and inflammation. By isolating…

As an undergraduate at University of Maryland, College Park, Rhonda Y. Williams’ first black women’s history class was taught by prominent scholar Sharon Harley. A few years later, when applying for graduate history programs, Harley wrote her a recommendation letter. Then, in graduate school at…

The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services has tapped the expertise of Case Western Reserve University’s Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. The center will evaluate the effectiveness…

Case Western Reserve University management researcher finds corporate finances reflect how well board members play as a team A board of directors can better accomplish a company's goals when the members function well as a team, according to a management researcher who studied what makes boards…

When Roberto Fernández Galán, assistant professor of neuroscience, proposed investigating how neuronal activity in brain circuits relate to autism, The Hartwell Foundation supported the idea. Galán recently received a 2013 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which placed him in a line of…

When Amy Backus starred on the basketball team at Ohio’s Vermilion High School in the 1970s, no college came courting her for scholarships. Congress had just passed Title IX, and the country was still adjusting to the idea of equal opportunity for women in education programs. Four decades later,…