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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…