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When people hear the term “cancer research,” they might think cures, genes or even prevention. Mary Step’s studies take a different route. As an assistant professor of family medicine and community health, she studies the communication between cancer patients and their physicians. And as the honora...

Margaret A. Wheatley, assistant professor of nursing and minority fellow at the Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, died March 24. She was 67. Wheatley earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1989 and later her master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nurs...

Students from the East Cleveland City Schools are getting an early slice of campus life and learning in a new hands-on mentoring program launched this month by Case Western Reserve University. The “Provost Scholars” program matches 11 eighth- and ninth-graders selected from Shaw High and Heritage m...

Robert H. Jackson, senior partner at Kohrman Jackson & Krantz PLL in Cleveland and noted writer, speaker and collector of rare books and art, has been appointed Kelvin Smith Library’s first Distinguished Visiting Scholar. His appointment for the 2013-2014 academic year begins Sept. 1. “This yearlon...

An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found. The breakthrough follows discoveries that certain proteins found in the brains of Alzh...

By Jack Behrend The Observer, Case Western Reserve University’s independent, student-run campus newspaper, recently took home a top ranking from the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP). The Observer’s website, the paper’s forum for breaking news, archived articles and reader feedback, was named the e...

In Norway, families receive public support that enables them to care for aging parents in their own homes and keep them out of nursing homes. This includes a salary for a son or daughter to provide care. They also focus on adapting houses to the needs of older people through municipal government-fin...

Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report Case Western Reserve University and partners have won funding to develop new ways to repair and alter costly manufacturing tools using three-dimensional printing technology. In addition, Carnegie Mellon University and Case Western Reserve are...

ConservoCare LLC, a spinoff of research at Case Western Reserve University, has obtained license options through the university’s Technology Transfer Office to develop a medical device for bladder control. ConservoCare, based in Atlanta, is focused on restoring bladder function lost due to injury o...

Forget sporting events or rock concerts; the hottest ticket in town is to the fourth annual TEDxCLE event, taking place today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This year’s event sold out in just 24 minutes, as people clamored for a chance to hear from some of the region’s brightest minds, including me...