Publications + Presentations

Bhagya Nallaperuma, a specialist in the Department of Environmental Health and Safety, co-authored a review on natural polymer-based hydrogels in Food Biomacromolecules by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Titled “Natural polymer-based hydrogels: Types, functionality, food applications, environmental signif...

The Oxford Handbook of the International Monetary Fund was published in preparation for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs in the Department of Political Science, wrote a chapter reviewing the U...

A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University published a paper about their work on applying a new cell therapy to treat autoimmune diseases. Published in Journal of Autoimmunity, a prestigious journal in the field of autoimmunity, the paper highlights their idea to apply the therapy, ...

Scott Wilkes, assistant dean of academic affairs and associate dean for equity and innovation at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was featured in the Association of Social Work Boards' (ASWB) newsletter and on the website. Wilkes serves on ASWB's Social Work Wor...

Students in Case Western Reserve University’s Fundamentals of Global Health course recently completed a project that evaluated the ability for generative artificial intelligence (AI) to meet the expectations of graduate students. Peter Zimmerman, professor of pathology at the School of Medicine, ov...

Richard Romaniuk, a lecturer at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, served as a task force member on the latest Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Military and Veteran Social Work. The guide was published by the CSWE Press and released on Veterans Day in 202...

Graphyne is a crystalline form of carbon that is distinct from both diamond and graphite. Unlike diamond, where each atom possesses four immediate neighbors, or graphite, where each atom has three, graphyne's structure combines two-coordinate and three-coordinate carbons. Computational models sugges...

Monitoring cellular adhesion in blood samples is of fundamental importance, but conventional approaches may not capture the full physiological complexity of microscale flow in living contexts. Umut Gurkan, the Wilbert J. Austin Professor of Engineering, led a team of researchers to study this topi...

Jonathan Tan, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor of Catholic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, was a guest on Vox’s “Today, Explained” podcast in September. Tan spoke with podcast host Noel King in an episode titled “The Pope's Big Bet on China,” which is available on Spotify, ...

The origin of neutrino masses is one of the most pressing issues in particle physics. After the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider, researchers learned how the charged fermions and massive gauge bosons acquire their masses through the Higgs mechanism. However, the origin of ne...