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When Becky Sloan was about 13, her love for writing took root. Now, nearly 60 years later, she’s published her first novel, Branches—a work that took years of writing, rewriting, editing and retooling in order to be fit for print. Sloan’s long journey led her to realize four crucial words of…

The ongoing and wide-ranging community engagement of Case Western Reserve University faculty, staff and students has earned a prestigious national honor. The university was named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction by the Corporation for National…

Four members of the Board of Trustees together have committed $10.5 million to Forward Thinking: The Campaign for Case Western Reserve University. The gifts, announced at the board’s February meeting, will support programs ranging from student scholarships to academic programs and building…

A professor from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is one of the lead authors of a study identifying seven new regions of the human genome that are associated with increased risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness among older adults. The AMD…

Watching a loved one die tests some family members’ relationships with God. This spiritual anger and resentment increases with the level of pain and suffering their family member endures, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University. Psychologist Julie Exline and palliative care…

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and its primary affiliate University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center will begin testing the first of two technologies they plan to combine in a new effort to enable people with paralysis to regain some control of their arms and hands. The…

Today marks the start of the sequester, the imposition of $85 billion in across-the-board cuts in federal spending for this fiscal year. Like many leading national universities, Case Western Reserve relies heavily on federal funds for research and also receives significant government assistance for…

For Maxwell Mehlman, everything happens for a reason. Take, for example, his entire career. “Everything that has happened to me was part of a sequence of fortuitous events,” Mehlman said. When Mehlman graduated from law school at Yale University, he headed to Washington, D.C., to practice. He…

Case Western Reserve University’s School of Engineering has launched three new master’s degree programs that respond to shifts in industry and workforce demand. The advanced degrees are aimed at professionals and recent graduates who seek specific training in wireless health, fire science and…

Extroverts may win “most popular,” but author Susan Cain says that their quieter counterparts deserve a second look. The talents of introverts may be less pronounced, but can be just as valuable at home, work and across society. Cain explains her perspective in the bestseller Quiet: The Power of…