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A Case Western Reserve University chemistry professor has begun imbedding magnetic nanoparticles in the toughest of plastics to understand why more than 40,000 Americans must replace their knee and hip replacements annually. Anna C. Samia, an assistant professor who specializes in metallic…

Older adults who learn to surf the Internet, email, post pictures and otherwise use technology to stay connected feel uplifted and generally more fulfilled, reported Case Western Reserve University psychologist T. J. McCallum. For his study, “The Impact of Tablet Usage on Social Engagement among…

Case Western Reserve University is teaming with TECH CORPS and the Cleveland Metropolitan School District to offer free TECHie Camps this summer, providing elementary and middle school students an opportunity to learn how to program computers, design their own video games and more. With financial…

Think classic literature and Shakespeare may come to mind. But is there a cultural shake-up in the bard’s future in literary standings? Marjorie Garber, author of The Use and Abuse of Literature, will answer that and other questions in her lecture “Occupy Shakespeare: Shakespeare and/in the…

Throughout senior Mai Segawa’s time at Case Western Reserve University, she has been involved in a number of outreach and aid activities. Her sophomore year, she coordinated a jewelry sale and a benefit dinner on campus to aid victims of the tsunami in Japan. As a rising junior, she created the…

Patients receive better treatment when nurses and physicians work as a team, sharing knowledge, responsibility and mutual respect. But their interaction is often fleeting, and sometimes, the professional relationship is strained. To improve patient safety and care, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation…

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.…

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…

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…

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…