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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,…

Discovery could lead to more effective therapies to prevent heart attacks Right now, options are limited for preventing heart attacks. However, the day may come when treatments target the heart attack gene, myeloid related protein-14 (MRP-14, also known as S100A9) and defang its ability to…

Faculty, staff and students just got seven more days to have their say about the future of Case Western Reserve’s campus. University officials announced today that they have extended the deadline to complete an online survey designed to inform the first phase of a 14-month master planning…

In addition to medical attention for acute illnesses, Northeast Ohio residents can now turn to Case Western Reserve University’s Student-Run Free Clinic (SRFC) for social work services. In a broad cross-disciplinary approach that stresses coordination and cooperation among multiple health…