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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…
February 25, 2013
The President’s Committee on Child Care Options (PCCCO) is sponsoring two spring break camps this year for children of Case Western Reserve faculty, staff and students. One weeklong program will take place on the university campus through a partnership with The Music Settlement, while the other…
February 22, 2013
Update Monday, Feb. 25: The panel now can be viewed online. An idea emerging from research at Case Western Reserve University will be pulled from the ivory tower and placed squarely among executives from IDEO, Google and Udacity at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco today. Anthony Jack,…
February 22, 2013
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report Professor Lee Thompson takes an unusual approach to teaching her course “Life of the Mind,” a First Seminar in SAGES (the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship) at Case Western Reserve University. Thompson, chair of the…
February 21, 2013
What it takes to succeed doesn’t waiver, whether winning in business or a Super Bowl, advises an executive who’s done both. “It requires the ability to be strategic, tenacious and opportunistic,” said Andrew Wasynczuk, a former principal with the National Football League’s New England Patriots and…
February 21, 2013
This spring people around the world will be able to take free online classes from two of Case Western Reserve’s most prominent professors—one an acclaimed expert in international law, and the other a renowned scholar of emotional intelligence in leadership. The extraordinary educational…
February 19, 2013
From sore feet to backache pains, blame it on human evolution, according to Bruce Latimer, an anthropologist from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine. “We are the only mammals to walk on two feet,” he said. Last week, Latimer presented the talk “A Backache of…