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Four CWRU students selected as Gates Millennium scholars
A pair of first-year students, a PhD candidate and an online master’s student at Case Western Reserve University were selected as Gates Millennium scholars. Each said they could not have attended the schools they wanted most without the Gates scholarships. The Gates Millennium program selects 1,00...
CWRU part of new national manufacturing effort
Focus on lightweight metals for transportation, military and more Case Western Reserve University will contribute expertise and key facilities to a $148 million lightweight metal manufacturing research consortium that President Barack Obama announced yesterday. “I don't want the next big job-creatin...
Two alumni named to university’s Board of Trustees
Two dual-degree alumni, each internationally renowned in his field, have won election to Case Western Reserve University’s Board of Trustees. Steven M. Altschuler, the CEO of the nation’s top children’s hospital, and Geoffrey Duyk, the managing director of a leading biomedical and technology inve...
Eating disorders prevalent on college campuses, but CWRU offers help
The transition from high school to college is a notoriously stressful one that can trigger a range of mental health concerns, such as anxiety, depression and substance abuse. Eating disorders, too, are becoming more prevalent among teens and college-aged students, and the rate of new cases of eating...
Special edition: 5 questions with…Chief Compliance Officer Boyd Kumher on new training
Earlier this month, a large proportion of the university community received emails regarding online compliance training in such subjects as ethics, diversity and fraud. Some wondered whether the emails were spam. Some feared they represented a thinly disguised attempt to spread a computer virus. Sti...
5 questions with…former child actor, assistant professor of law Charlie Korsmo
Familiar faces abound at Case Western Reserve. But there’s one person in particular who people may recognize from more than simply a passing glance on the quad; his is a familiar face from the big screen. Charlie Korsmo, assistant professor of law, is a former “child actor” who starred in several m...
Alum and hand-picked staff of CWRU students present short-film festival this weekend
Three years ago, Case Western Reserve University alumnus Mike Suglio (CWR ’09, MGT ’12) and a friend decided that Cleveland’s filmmakers—and others around the country—needed a short-film festival to showcase their talents. Suglio and Alex Pavloff, a former Case Western Reserve student, debuted the ...
Researchers developing technology to link patient records between hospitals, medical flight crews
New technology offers potential to begin connecting multiple medical systems Although trauma, heart and stroke patients benefit from being transferred from a local hospital to a higher-level care facility, it’s unclear why patients transferred with non-urgent medical conditions show at least a 30 pe...
Researchers discover pathway of protein that helps cancer cells survive
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers' discovery could lead to better treatment outcomes A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine has discovered how the cancer-related protein Bcl-2 signals cancer cells to live longer. The breakthrough emerged when the scientists dis...
Crowdsourced testers prefer new cyber search method created by CWRU computer scientists
Search interface allows for more efficient, faster searches to find information on Internet and hand-held devices Computer scientists at Case Western Reserve University have developed a new tool to search and fetch electronic files that saves users time by more quickly identifying and retrieving the...