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Student entrepreneurs will enter the finals of two contests offering big payoffs this week: the Clean Energy Challenge in Chicago and the Saint-Gobain Student Design Competition on campus. Two teams from Case Western Reserve University are vying for $150,000 in prize money and a chance to win more…

Athletes will drop in on Cleveland this summer for the 2013 National Senior Games, defying widely accepted age limitations on the mind and body. But growing older doesn’t necessitate breaking down physically and growing stagnant mentally—a lesson Case Western Reserve University’s 20th Annual…

One of only 200 experts in the country, Marco Rouman has seen the horrific side of what happens when the elderly go without dental care. Rouman, who is launching and directing geriatric-focused graduate and predoctoral training programs at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Dental…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…