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Mathematics professor Peter Kotelenez passes away
Longtime university mathematics professor Peter Kotelenez, an expert in stochastic differential equations, died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 69. A member of the Case Western Reserve faculty since 1990, Kotelenez published widely on stochastic differential equations, Brownian mo...
Federal tax changes to go into effect this month
While some of the implications of the tax deal Congress approved Tuesday are not yet clear, Case Western Reserve University officials wanted to update the community as quickly as possible about changes scheduled to take effect this month. The federal payroll tax (officially called FICA, for Federal...
More details on The Tuition Exchange program now available online
Faculty and staff who want to learn more about Case Western Reserve’s new collaboration with The Tuition Exchange can find information on the university’s financial aid website, financialaid.case.edu, or directly through this link. The program provides financial assistance to select students who are...
5 questions with…CWRU crossing guard Mark Chavis
When he started guiding students and employees safely across the bustling Euclid Avenue and Adelbert Road intersection, Case Western Reserve University police officer Mark Chavis thought it was just temporary. At the time, the Euclid Corridor project was taking off, and the police department decide...
Political economist pens primer on U.S. financial and political systems
As the financial crisis of 2008 led to foreclosures, job losses and shrinking retirement funds, political scientists and economists argued over whom to blame. Noticing how even the experts disagreed prompted Case Western Reserve University political scientist Kathryn Lavelle to write a new primer, ...
CWRU, AstraZeneca partner for new tuberculosis drug trial in South Africa
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical company, last week announced the first patient enrolled in a Phase 2a trial to assess the effectiveness of AZD5847, a new test drug for patients with tuberculosis (TB), including patients with HIV co-infec...
”Forbes” selects four CWRU women for ”30 under 30”
Four of Forbes magazine’s list of the year’s 30 most innovative young thinkers in science and healthcare come from Case Western Reserve. Forbes annual “30 Under 30” list highlights Cindy Chang, a fifth-year medical student at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve Unive...
Lake Erie wind farm proposal wins $4 million federal grant
A regional team including researchers from Case Western Reserve has won $4 million to design a wind farm in Lake Erie—along with the possibility they can compete for $46 million more to build it. The U.S. Department of Energy announced last week that Northeast Ohio’s Project Icebreaker is one of se...
School of Medicine receives funding from Gates Foundation
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine announced last week it will receive funding through the Achieving Healthy Growth program within the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative. This initiative was launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to overcome persistent bottlenecks ...
Reduce finals stress with on-campus activities
By Shivani Parikh Final exams begin tomorrow, and stress levels are high as students buckle down, spending every spare minute in the library reviewing notes, re-learning material and writing papers upon papers. Amid all the chaos, though, it’s important to relax. Fortunately, many campus organizati...