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Weatherhead School announces winners of 2013 Weatherhead 100
Annual business award winners show strong growth in multiple sectors Laudan Properties LLC, a multi-faceted residential and commercial building services firm based in Twinsburg, earned the coveted No. 1 ranking in the prestigious 2013 Weatherhead 100 list of fastest-growing companies headquartered…
Benefits staff available to answer questions on tax filings for married same-sex couples
Case Western Reserve’s Office of Human Resources announced today that benefits staff members are available to answer questions that married same-sex couples may have regarding their benefits in the wake of new rules from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service. The federal…
University to sponsor winter break program for children of employees, students
The President’s Committee on Child Care Options (PCCCO) is building on the success of two spring break pilot programs by sponsoring a winter break program for children of Case Western Reserve faculty, staff and students. The university is partnering with the Mandel Jewish Community Center (JCC) in…
5 questions with…TEDx speaker, biomedical engineer Megan Moynahan
Megan Moynahan’s early interest in biomedical engineering stemmed from an article she read in a science magazine about bionic people and the idea of artificial organs and limbs. As a 14-year-old, she wrote letters to researchers to help her replicate a famous experiment by physicist Luigi Galvani…
Contribute to favorite causes through CWRU’s annual Charity Choice campaign
During this season of gratitude and reflection, university leaders are asking the community to consider contributing to the university’s annual Charity Choice campaign. “Just as we rely on the support and innovation of those on our campus and in the local communities, many of our friends and…
New data brief shows little cigar use up for Cleveland's young adults
A new data brief released by the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) at Case Western Reserve University shows that more than one in five African-American young adults in Cleveland, ages 18 to 29, routinely uses "little cigars." Additional findings detailed in the PRCHN…
Quality preschool narrows gap between high-risk kids and higher achievers
A new study by researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences found that children’s language, math and logic readiness were improved significantly by the programs offered at 24 pilot universal prekindergarten program (UPK) sites in…
Researchers find stress and isolation take toll on those under 50 with HIV
Case Western Reserve University researchers were surprised to learn that people younger than 50 years old with HIV feel more isolated and stressed than older people with the disease. They expected their study to reveal just the opposite. “The younger, newly diagnosed individual may not know anyone…
CWRU becomes first university to upgrade to Ohio’s 100-gigabit network
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University will benefit from infrastructure improvements that increase the capacity of the university’s network connection to the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet), which provides access to Internet2 and other Ohio research universities. The improvements,…
Support projects that make a difference through #GivingTuesdayatCWRU
Everyone has heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday—days that allow customers to score deals on their shopping lists. But in an attempt to put the spirit of giving back into the holiday season, there’s a more altruistic day making headway: Giving Tuesday, a global day of philanthropy on Dec.…