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Case Western Reserve University teacher wrote the book on Superman The Plain Dealer: SAGES Fellow Brad Ricca’s new book, Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster -- the Creators of Superman, is set for release June 4. This year is Superman’s 75th birthday. "Superman was th...

College report 2013 acceptance rates The New York Times: Case Western Reserve University is highlighted among selective institutions that turned away thousands of smart, talented, qualified students. This year, the overall admit rate for the university dropped to 39 percent, from 54 percent in 2012...

You've got 60 seconds with Warren Buffett: What's your pitch? Fortune: Students took part in the Rice Business Plan Competition last week, during which time they give their hypothetical elevator pitch to Warren Buffett. The Disease Diagnostic Group from CWRU was selected as one of the highlights fo...

CWRU shows off research in 'science fair on steroids' The Plain Dealer: Research ShowCASE took place Friday, back by popular demand after a two-year hiatus. More than 400 students took part in the event. Administrators, faculty members and students, including Bob Miller, Tracy Wilson-Holden, Bob So...

‘Good Ol’ Freda’, Joe Sample and Tin Pan Alley ideastream: Daniel Goldmark, associate professor of music, appeared on Around Noon to talk about last weekend’s Tin Pan Alley symposium....

Why red meat may clog arteries UPI: Researchers including Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University student Robert Koeth found that a compound abundant in red meat and energy drinks may promote the hardening of the arteries....

CWRU receives $8 million for Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences The Plain Dealer: The Mandel Foundation has awarded $8 million to the university to expand social work and nonprofit leadership programs and to help fund a renovation of the newly renamed Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of ...

Englewood native had hand in scripting Superman Northern Valley Suburbanite: Otto Binder helped write the Superman comic books. "Binder loved science fiction, and those stories about Bizarro and Brainiac and the Legion of Super-Heroes were straight out of pulp fiction," said SAGES Fellow Brad Ricca...

Deep in a former gold mine, scientists hunt for dark matter Los Angeles Times: Graduate student Patrick Phelps is part of the team working on the Large Underground Xenon experiment, or LUX, in an attempt to find evidence of dark matter....

Fathers who kill their children: The latest psychological research gets inside the mind of Mick Philpott The Huffington Post: In a recent study, psychiatry faculty members Sara West, Susan Friedman and Phillip Resnick found fathers were far more likely than mothers to kill their spouses during “fil...