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June 24, 2013
Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández, an assistant professor of chemistry, won a National Science Foundation CAREER award to investigate how compounds found in human cells and medicines trigger DNA mutations that can damage cells and lead to skin cancer when exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Crespo,…
June 21, 2013
Lynn T. Singer, deputy provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, has appointed Shannon B. Lundeen as Case Western Reserve’s new director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. Lundeen succeeds Dorothy Miller, who is retiring June 30. “Shannon is a very dynamic individual,” Singer said.…
June 21, 2013
President Barbara R. Snyder presented three staff members with the 2013 President’s Award for Distinguished Service at the Staff Service Awards brunch June 12. The annual award, created in memory of staff member Roseanne Shaerban, recognizes employees whose outstanding contributions to the campus…
June 20, 2013
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report When Case Western Reserve University officials conceived this week’s Day of Giving, the goal of 618 donors seemed a large leap of faith. Since the concept was entirely untested on this campus, no precedent existed to guide them. Would the…
June 20, 2013
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,…
June 19, 2013
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…
June 19, 2013
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…
June 18, 2013
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…
June 16, 2013
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…
June 14, 2013
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…