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Wall Street trailblazer and Case Western Reserve honorary alumna Muriel “Mickie” Siebert, known as the "first woman of finance," died Aug. 24 from complications due to cancer. She was 84. Born in Cleveland in 1928, Siebert began her college career at Flora Stone Mather College for Women, now part o...

In 1983, professor Nathan Berger hired Stanton Gerson, fresh out of his fellowship at University of Pennsylvania, to join the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Division of Hematology Oncology. The next year, when Gerson’s interest turned to gene therapy, he formed a research partner...

When Maxwell J. Mehlman joined the faculty of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1984, the last science class he’d taken was a high school biology course—a fact that stands true today, even as Mehlman is one of the most renowned experts on health law and bioethics. His accomplishm...

During his high school career on Cleveland’s West Side, one of Robert F. Savinell’s teachers said he needed to choose a field of focus. He selected chemistry and immediately hit the ground running. After graduating from Cleveland State University with a degree in chemical engineering, Savinell enro...

Case Western Reserve climbed to fourth among national universities in The Washington Monthly’s annual rankings of colleges that best contribute to the nation’s future. Released today, the magazine’s ratings focus on three categories: social mobility, research production, and commitment to service. ...

Autumn Beechler has never lived in one spot for more than four years. As a child, her family frequently moved—mostly around the state of Michigan and later to Ohio—for her father’s job. After settling in Ohio, Beechler attended Medina High School and enrolled at Bowling Green State University to stu...

For the third year in a row, Case Western Reserve University took home the Commission on Economic Inclusion’s Best-in-Class Workforce Diversity Award, placing the university in the commission’s hall of fame. The university was recognized for its multifaceted approach to building a diverse, inclusive...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian to a Watergate whistleblower, the 83rd annual Town Hall of Cleveland speaker series will bring some of the top thinkers, authors and innovators to the city. Since 2010, Case Western Reserve University has served as academic sponsor of the longstanding program...

Case Western Reserve is among the Top 25 LGBT-Friendly Colleges and Universities, according to Campus Pride, a national organization that aims to make universities safer and more inclusive for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals. The recognition, announced this week in The Huff...

The first-year students who arrived on campus Sunday boast the strongest academic credentials of any entering class in the university’s history. But rest assured, they are way more than smart. Case Western Reserve’s Director of Undergraduate Admission Robert McCullough this week provided his annua...