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Last weekend, Marvel’s Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier hit the big screen, featuring superheroes battling adversity with Cleveland as their backdrop. This weekend, the Case Western Reserve University community can see real-life heroes: those battling cancer, supporting their loved ones in thei...

For the last five years, students at Eastlake Middle School, about 20 miles northeast of Cleveland, spend half a Saturday in April on their feet. All 12 hours. From noon to midnight. Even eating meals while standing on the gym floor. And it’s all to raise awareness and research dollars for autism,...

Author, activist Gloria Steinem to open 2014-15 series Sept. 9 at new Tinkham Veale University Center Town Hall of Cleveland, the nation’s longest consecutive-running speaker series, and Case Western Reserve University, the program’s academic sponsor since 2010, jointly announced today an expanded p...

What sort of leader are you? Do you think leading is all about a laser-like focus on the task, watching the bottom line and making sure everyone is doing what they should? Or is it about listening to your team, being open to ideas and perspectives, and inspiring them to find their own niche? Distin...

Today marks the end of Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week at Case Western Reserve University—a week filled with activities and events, many of which third-year chemistry PhD candidate Shu Situ helped organize. As co-chair of the activities committee for the Graduate Student Senate ...

Today Case Western Reserve launches the first phase of its major master planning effort: learning how faculty, staff and students use existing campus spaces—and what they think of them. The information-gathering initiative opens with an online survey from Sasaki Associates, the Massachusetts-based ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and colleagues used “big data” analytics to predict if a patient is suffering from aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, slower-moving cancers or non-cancerous lesions with 95 percent accuracy. If the tiny patterns they found in magnetic resonance ...

Come fall, students at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University will begin hacking computers—for credit. Each university is offering the first of three courses in a new curriculum in which engineering and computer science students will learn how to break into—and then protect—...

Adds mushroom cellar, worm farm and aquaponic growing room Case Western Reserve University’s Squire Valleevue Farm in Hunting Valley, which harvests food for the campus dining halls, now is supplying healthy fare to another kitchen: the one that feeds the animals at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. “A...

Earlier this year, Case Western Reserve University researchers reported a scientific explanation for why children with autism withdraw into their own worlds: At rest, their brains actually generate significantly more information than those of children without autism. This study was just the latest ...