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A budding anthropologist, Frank Manzella first took an interest in Brazilian culture and the Portuguese language when he worked for an immunodermatologist in a clinic frequented by Brazilian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While reading for his master’s degree at the University of Oxford, hi...

Case Western Reserve University officials announced today that the tuition deadline for the fall semester will be September 6, 2013, while the deadline for the spring semester is Jan. 24, 2014. The university has moved its payment due dates earlier to align more closely with peer institutions and ma...

The test began a few minutes after 9 a.m. Saturday. A text alert warned those involved that the campus faced imminent danger. Sirens sounded. Emergency crews descended. And for the next four hours, more than 200 participants put their emergency training up against a scenario none ever want to face...

Case Western Reserve University is holding its first Day of Giving today. The goal is to set a new record of at least 618 gifts on 6.18—a number that would make it the largest one-day total of gifts in the history of Case Western Reserve. From 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. EDT, alumni are encouraged to ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found that a single gene poses a double threat to disease: Not only does it inhibit the growth and spread of breast tumors, but it also makes hearts healthier. In 2012, medical school researchers discovered the suppressive effects of the gene HEXI...

Entanglement is a property in quantum mechanics that seemed so unbelievable and so lacking in details that Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance” 78 years ago. But a mathematician at Case Western Reserve University and two of his recent PhD graduates show entanglement is actually prevalen...

Jenifer Neils knew she wanted to be an archaeologist in the third grade after she read about field archaeology pioneer Heinrich Schliemann—a man whose work advocated the idea that Homer’s Iliad reflected actual historical events. She hasn’t looked back since. After graduating from Bryn Mawr, Neils w...

Infants as young as 2 months old already exhibit growth patterns that can predict the child’s weight by age five, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Tennessee State University. “Almost from birth, we quickly saw this growth patte...

Combat troops must minimize the humanness of their enemies in order to kill them. They can’t be effective fighters if they’re distracted by feelings of empathy for opponents. But indifference to the enemy, rather than loathing, may help prevent war crimes and provide troops with a better path back t...

Until her passing this year at the age of 104, Lillian Harris (FSM ’30, SAS ’33) embodied the ideals of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. One of a handful of women to earn a graduate degree from the school in the 1930s, she maintained devotion to its principles th...