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Is there a brain area for mind wandering? For religious experience? For re-orienting attention? A recent study casts serious doubt on the evidence for these ideas, and rewrites the rules for neuroimaging. Brain-mapping experiments attempt to identify the cognitive functions associated with discret...

New research in the Journal of Newborns & Infant Nursing Reviews concludes that so-called “kangaroo care” (KC), the skin-to-skin and chest-to-chest touching between baby and mother, offers developmentally appropriate therapy for hospitalized preterm infants. In the article, “Kangaroo Care as a Neon...

A far cry from the big city lifestyle of his hometown of Long Island, N.Y., Louis Stark attended college at Davis & Elkins College—a small-liberal arts school with an enrollment of less than 800 students in the mountains of Elkins, W.Va. It was there that Stark became involved in student activities...

Over the next two and a half weeks, about 11,000 athletes will come to Cleveland for the 2013 National Senior Games—the world’s largest multi-sport event for athletes over age 50. That’s approximately the same number of competitors in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Such a large event calls for a...

A new four-year, $1.58 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), will allow a Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researcher to advance her work linking oral bacteria to fetal death. The grant will support a study by Yiping Han, pro...

Case Western Reserve University and area partners won Team Northeast Ohio’s 2013 Asset Creation award for helping to land the nation’s first manufacturing innovation hub—the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute—in Youngstown. The award is given to the team that brings the best, inno...

Discover first hand the true harmony of art and music brought to life when a few dozen colorful, artistically decorated pianos appear throughout University Circle and other Greater Cleveland sites—all yours to play. Play Me, I’m Yours, an interactive, musical public art installation inspired by Bri...

Susan Helper, a Case Western Reserve University economics professor who most recently served as a senior economic adviser to the White House, has been appointed the U.S. Department of Commerce’s chief economist. Helper replaces Mark Doms, who was the department’s chief economist from August 2009 un...

Rising senior Karen Kruzer is trying something different this summer: staying in Cleveland. The pre-med, medical anthropology major is interning at MetroHealth Medical Center on a research study related to kidney failure in premature babies. Staying in the city might not seem abnormal for most. But...

Provost W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III announced today that he has appointed Mark Henderson as the university’s interim vice president for Information Technology Services (ITS) and chief information officer. Henderson, who has served as the university’s associate vice president for ITS since the beginning...