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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have received a $540,000 federal grant to devise methods for building minute structures tailored to precisely deliver medicines to tumors or carry dyes that help imaging technologies detect disease, create more efficient nanowires and nanoelectronics, a...

Case Western Reserve Distinguished University Professor Paul C. Giannelli, recognized nationally for his extensive legal research in scientific evidence, was selected to serve on a newly created federal commission on forensic science. The new National Commission on Forensic Science, created jointly...

To the Case Western Reserve Community: As a longtime law professor, I love the power of words. A well-crafted brief can illuminate ideas and arguments in ways that reshape perceptions, provoke positive actions and, quite literally, change the way we live. In recent days, though, I have come to fee...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center hope to improve treatment and survival rates of ischemic heart disease patients by providing doctors an unprecedented look at the stents they place in coronary arteries. The highly collaborative team receive...

At a young age, John Broich felt a compulsion to understand how things came to be. Well before his high school years, he remembers thinking that the fundamental questions about how people came to act and think weren’t being asked. Like any good researcher, he began searching for answers to these qu...

When inmates with severe mental illness are released from jail, their priority is finding shelter, food, money and clothes. Even needs as basic as soap and a place to bathe can be hard to come by for people leaving jail, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University’s social work sch...

Oxford University Press is publishing an updated edition of an award-winning how-to guide for making oral presentations. The primer, called SPEAK, was developed in 2008 for undergraduate students in Case Western Reserve University’s Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship (SAGES) prog...

Although too young to gamble, student innovators from Case Western Reserve University hope to “hit the jackpot” by drawing interest for their inventions from investors and companies at the Consumer Electronics Association’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which started yesterday and r...

Many rare disorders are caused by gene mutation, like sickle cell anemia. Yet until now the underlying genetic cause of more common conditions—for example, rheumatoid arthritis—has evaded scientists for years. New research from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine that appears in the ...

Business gets blasted for not only ignoring the world’s environmental problems, but for contributing to them. But a new book by Jessica F. Green, associate professor of political science, explains how private firms, in many cases, are emerging as leaders in tackling the world’s climate concerns. So...