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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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University received a $486,000 Doris Duke Foundation award to discover how to predict when sickle cell disease patients will suffer an acute crisis and monitor the effectiveness of treatments. For decades, scientists have known that during acute crises,…

To the Case Western Reserve University Community: As leaders of an institution of higher education, we must oppose the proposed academic boycotts of Israel in the strongest possible terms. In our 2008 strategic plan, Case Western Reserve embraced a vision where we sought to be recognized "as an…

A nudge from the nose of a free-roaming zebra or towering, 2,500-pound Clydesdale draft horse might send others running. But Lauren Burke, a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, instead extends a curved hand to…

Journal of Biological Chemistry “Paper of the Week” provides insight into vitamin production A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine study in the Nov. 22 issue of Journal of Biological Chemistry explained how vitamin A is generated from beta-carotene, its dietary precursors. The…