Publications + Presentations

Jessica Yang, a senior majoring in biochemistry and psychology, recently had an article published in Skin Appendage Disorders. Her article, titled “Bullying and Quality of Life in Pediatric Alopecia Areata,” detailed her research on pediatric alopecia areata (hair loss). She conducted this research...

Joseph White, the Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy, wrote an essay published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law titled “The Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Insurance Is Not Regressive—But What Is It?” Read White’s article. His essay then was analyzed in an post for t...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University had an article titled “Crystal structure and dynamics of a lipid-induced potential desensitized-state of a pentameric ligand-gated channel” published in eLIFE. The authors were: Sandip Basak, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Physiology a...

Heather Clayton Terry, associate director of women in science and engineering and WISER student adviser, was an invited panelist for the Unified Sisters’ "Power Hour.” Unified Sisters is a women's empowerment organization at Ohio University that strives to promote unity among all women on campus, b...

Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, recently gave a plenary talk at a 3-D printing a forum in the Philippines. His talk, titled “3-D Printing: Innovationeering Materials and Design,” was part of the Engineering Research and Development for Technology's second Fr...

Why do humans get bunions? Or carpal tunnel syndrome? Separate research led by two Case Western Reserve University students recently published in the journal Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, have proposed that these uniquely human maladies are understandable in the context of human’s singular...

Through a partnership with Cleveland Clinic and the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation, Case Western Reserve University researchers are studying the risk factors for suicide in adolescents. The researchers recently published an article, titled “Preventing Youth Suicide: Research Collaborative Explo...

Heather Baily, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, wrote a guest blog for Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, an international journal of cross-cultural health research. Titled “Telemedicine in Ghana,” her post described a trip to Ghana, where she investigated how the country is imple...

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of biomedical engineering, gave a keynote lecture on precision medicine at the Digital Pathology conference at the SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 13. He delivered his lecture, titled "Prognostications and predictions: implic...

Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer, the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, wrote a book titled Solar Calendar, and Other Ways of Marking Time, which was recently published by Punctum. The art book features a series of askesis, or "spiritual exercises,” and many colo...