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When Rekha Srinivasan asked students in her organic chemistry and biochemistry classes how they were doing in light of recent changes in their lives due to the COVID-19 outbreak, she learned that many were anxious, bored or just plain fidgety. Srinivasan, the James Stephen Swinehart, PhD Professoria...

As the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelms health care systems and disrupts industries worldwide, daily life may feel like uncharted territory. But the truth is, we’ve been here before: More than a century ago, the Spanish flu of 1918 worked its way across the globe, prompting many of the same public hea...

Mark Cameron is no stranger to fast-moving, highly contagious respiratory viruses. Cameron, an associate professor in the university’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences in the School of Medicine, was a part of the rapid-response research team during the severe acute respirato...

Daniel Lacks, chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and C. Benson Branch Professor of Chemical Engineering, felt a pull to get outside—and to provide a positive outlet for those who are newly working and learning from home and isolated from colleagues, family and friends. ...

Student volunteers assist with public questions and concerns about COVID-19 pandemic While the novel coronavirus is disrupting every aspect of normalcy, the pandemic is also creating opportunities—for learning and community service, as faculty and students at Case Western Reserve University School ...

Article provided by CWRU Athletics. Read the original on their website. Senior David Hall, a member of the men's cross country team, has been selected as a fall recipient of the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, awarded to student-athletes across all three NCAA divisions who excel academically and ath...

When Case Western Reserve University looked to launch a Master of Public Health program two decades ago, the School of Medicine found its first leader in Scott Frank, then on the medical school faculty, director of health for the City of Shaker Heights and a family physician at University Hospitals....

From her own experience as a nurse, spanning bedside to boardroom, Marian Shaughnessy saw firsthand how nurses could help reform and redesign health care to make treating people more patient-centered, cost-effective and accessible—if empowered to do so. Marian Shaughnessy It was while completing ...

Throughout her 15-year career at Case Western Reserve University, Darlene Barnes was known for her humor, dedication and thoughtfulness—qualities that impacted not just her colleagues but youth from across Cleveland, as she worked as the department assistant for the university’s FOCUS Group’s TRIO U...

Nikhil Krishnan describes his educational journey as a mix of math and medicine. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from Case Western Reserve University, he went on to pursue a medical degree at the School of Medicine. “I’ve been fascinated with math since grade school,” he said, “and was...