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Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing received a $2.5 million federal grant to provide loans that encourage students pursuing advanced degrees to become nurse educators. Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) introduced the Nurse Faculty Loan Program (...

President Barbara R. Snyder is one of more than 185 university leaders who signed an open letter urging President Barack Obama and Congress to restore funding for research and education. The letter, which appeared last week in a print edition of the prominent Washington, D.C., newspaper Politico, d...

Rising senior Michael Scarpaci spent his first semester abroad as an infant. He celebrated his first birthday in the middle of the Indian Ocean, as he traveled by ship from India to Kenya on the Semester at Sea program. His father, then a faculty member at Virginia Tech, taught business courses to u...

Scientists historically have argued that evolution proceeds through gradual development of traits. But how can incremental changes apply to the binary switch between two sexes, male or female? Researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine have found that a genetic process among...

Since 2009, domestic violence in the Cleveland area has resulted in the deaths of more than 40 victims, according to Cleveland police. Case Western Reserve University’s Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education has teamed with the Witness/Victim Service Center from Cuyahoga County...

What happens if addicts get no high from the drugs they take? Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Illinois State University received a grant for $390,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to help answer the question. Addiction experts believe a mechanism that robs drugs of t...

Much has changed around campus since Mayo Bulloch arrived at Case Western Reserve University nearly 33 years ago—from the buildings to the people, not to mention the programs available on campus. Bulloch has played an influential role in shaping programming for students at Case Western Reserve. As ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing will assess the effectiveness of palliative care home health visits in treating people with HIV and other chronic illnesses in a new four-year, $1.7 million study funded by the National Institute of Nursing Resea...

Important step toward pharmacologic development of treatment for fatal brain disorders A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has identified a mechanism that can prevent the normal prion protein from changing its molecular shape into the abnormal form responsib...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have examined how childhood abuse and neglect affect chronic health problems in adulthood for inner-city women. The latest findings, reported in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, complement prior studies of other socioeconomic groups and now provide a...