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Case Western Reserve undergraduates are set to get a new housing option starting in the fall of 2015 now that university and municipal officials have approved construction of a 290-bed residence hall. The five-story, $40 million building will be located on East 115th Street across from Nobby’s Ball...

Case Western Reserve University music educator Lisa Huisman Koops realized during the daily 20-minute commute to her daughter’s preschool that the family vehicle might be an ideal—and overlooked—place to develop a child’s awareness and interest in music. The family car, she thought, could provide a...

Stacy McGaugh joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve University in 2012—a career move that was a long time coming for him and his family. For the previous 14 years, McGaugh commuted on a weekly basis between College Park, Md., and Cleveland. He worked as in the Department of Astronomy at the Uni...

Distinguished Case Western Reserve University alumnus Mohamed Ibn Chambas, joint chief mediator overseeing the Darfur peace negotiations for the African Union and United Nations, will return to his alma mater as the 2014 commencement speaker on Sunday, May 18. Chambas, a renowned attorney, scholar ...

Three third-year law students from Case Western Reserve University’s Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic are wrapped up in a rare opportunity to argue a case before the Ohio Supreme Court. Yelena Grinberg, Patrick Haney and Joshuah Lisk drafted a petition to the court in November, asking the court to take ...

Case Western Reserve University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) will present actress, author and humanitarian Holly Robinson Peete as the keynote speaker for its 24th Annual Unity Banquet & Scholarship Benefit. The event, which recognizes the academic accomplishments of the university’s und...

After more than three decades at Case Western Reserve, renowned neuroscientist and university Vice President for Research and Technology Management Robert H. “Bob” Miller is moving to George Washington University to lead its efforts in medical and health sciences research. “I am excited about this ...

Experts deem obesity an epidemic. The American Medical Association has gone so far as to call it a disease. And research shows it correlates with higher risk of cardiovascular incidents and cancer. Add in centuries-long trends of bias against the overweight, along with more recent debates about the...

Alumni of the undergraduate Class of 2013 have the highest rate of employment or post-graduation study of Case Western Reserve graduates in recent years, according to results of the Career Center’s 2013 First Destination Survey. Eighty-eight percent of the Class of 2013 either is employed full-time ...

Of an estimated 65 million Americans who provide some type of care to an ill family member, about 7 million live at least an hour from the relative they’re caring for. The issue, then, is how to get these “distance caregivers” in the room when doctors meet with their patients and local, hands-on ca...