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March 04, 2013
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…
March 03, 2013
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…
March 01, 2013
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…
March 01, 2013
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…
February 28, 2013
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…
February 28, 2013
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…
February 27, 2013
After 11 years at Case Western Reserve University, Dorothy Miller, director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, will retire at the end of this semester. Miller came to Case Western Reserve in 2002, after she was recruited from Wichita State University to establish the new women’s center at…
February 27, 2013
When the White House assembled a panel of experts for today’s discussion about preventing school violence, Vice President Joseph Biden made sure Dan Flannery was on it. Flannery, director of Case Western Reserve University’s Dr. Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and…
February 25, 2013
Using modified laws of gravity, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Weizmann Institute of Science closely predicted a key property measured in faint dwarf galaxies that are satellites of the nearby giant spiral galaxy Andromeda. The predicted property in this study is the velocity…
February 25, 2013
New research by Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine finds that cultures commonly used to detect bacterial infections in low birth-weight newborns with early onset sepsis may actually overlook some germs. The research done at Case Western…