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Thirty years ago, just a few miles down the road, Michael Scharf served as captain of the Shaker Heights High School debate team. The topic was American foreign policy. Immediately, his interest was piqued. That interest has remained ever since. Scharf went on to Duke University, where he was the…

The project started as a late-night chat between roommates about families they met while volunteering at the Seidman Cancer Center. Aspiring doctors, juniors Vidhushei (Vid) Yogeswaran and Vashti Aguilar decided they wanted to help children whose loved ones suffered from the disease. Eight months…

In her pioneering studies, Cynthia Beall became used to the heady atmosphere high in the mountains of Tibet, Ethiopia and Peru. Now she’ll share rarified air with Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and more as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Beall, a Distinguished…

In today's highly competitive and complicated global economy, a fact of life for many executives of American multinational companies is a need to do business in China, home of the world's second-largest and fastest-growing economy. That need opens the door to opportunities, along with cultural and…

Nathan Delaney’s cellphone got him thinking about the metals used to make it—primarily copper. In a roundabout way, he also started planning his doctoral dissertation research on the history of copper mining in Mexico. And it earned the graduate student in history a prestigious international…

Op art pioneer Julian Stanczak and international law expert Christine Van Den Wyngaert will receive honorary degrees next month during Case Western Reserve’s commencement ceremonies. The two join business leader and philanthropist Peter B. Lewis and renowned architect Frank O. Gehry—announced…

Jean Zhao, a third-year chemistry major at Case Western Reserve University, devised a fuel cell-powered electric bike that can beat a scooter at takeoff. With mentoring and coaching from the university’s new Blackstone LaunchPad, Zhao hopes to springboard her EcoSpinners bike company into a…

“Most important architect of our age” recognized on 10th anniversary of the building’s opening A decade after the Peter B. Lewis Building opened at Case Western Reserve, internationally renowned architect Frank O. Gehry will receive an honorary degree at the university’s 2013 commencement ceremony…

Progressive Insurance Co. chair to give address, receive honorary degree on 10th anniversary of the opening of the Weatherhead School of Management building that bears his name Renowned business leader and philanthropist Peter B. Lewis will return to a Case Western Reserve stage May 19 as the…

A Case Western Reserve University student-led startup aimed at saving lives through faster, better and cheaper malaria diagnosis won the 2013 LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Business Idea Competition at the University of Akron this week. Disease Diagnostic Group LLC’s win comes on the heels of its…