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Award-winning biographer and historian Daniel Stashower will be on campus Feb. 4 to discuss the riveting true story of “The Baltimore Plot,” a little-known plan to assassinate Abraham Lincoln as his train made its way from Springfield, Ill., to Washington, D.C., for his presidential inauguration. Th...

Many mothers of newborns in neonatal intensive care units have difficulty finding private, quiet places in the hospital to express milk, according to a new study from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. The lack of privacy—if it causes mothers to miss feed...

The Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is mourning the loss of one of its most active and generous supporters, Lillian F. Harris, a 1933 alumna. Harris died Jan. 9 at the age of 104. Harris defied gender limitations in the 1930s and 1940s as one of a very small number of women to earn a gradu...

Case Western Reserve University has a long, storied past—from the founding of Western Reserve College in 1826 and Case School of Applied Science in 1880 to the subsequent renaming to Western Reserve University in 1882 and Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and then, finally, the federation of the...

A fuel-cell bike. A kinetic battery for hybrid and electric cars. A way to turn algae into biofuel. An energy-use monitoring system. These are the inventions created by four multidisciplinary teams of Case Western Reserve University students—and guided by our alumni—that will be showcased Jan. 29 i...

Peering deep into the dim edges of a distorted pinwheel galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear), astronomers at Case Western Reserve University and their colleagues have discovered a faint dwarf galaxy and another possible young dwarf caught before it had a chance to form any stars. ...

The semester started in high definition for the faculty and students using the Strosacker, Schmitt and Ford auditoriums. Over winter break, Information Technology Services (ITS) worked with Campus Planning and Facilities Management to complete significant upgrades and improvements to the technology-...

Lani Guinier, a lawyer and Harvard professor and the first black woman to become a tenured professor at Harvard Law School, will headline Case Western Reserve University’s 2013 Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation on Friday, Jan. 25, at 12:30 p.m. The free, public event, at Amasa Stone Chapel, is part...

Earlier this week, the University Athletic Association honored women’s basketball’s Evy Iacono for the second week in a row with its Player of the Week award—marking the third time this season and the fourth time in her career the senior guard has earned the honor. Iacono, who leads the UAA in scori...

Before last spring, Lisa Damour had never attended a TED event. Instead, the clinical psychology instructor often enjoyed watching the talks available for viewing online. Less than a year later, the tables have turned: Now, thousands of people are staring at their laptop screens, enamored with Damou...