Publications + Presentations

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

Paris: L'Harmattan published a book by Gilbert Doho, associate professor of French, last month, about a set of executive orders that were conceived and used by French colonial administrators to control, oppress and punish indigenes in their territories. His book is titled Le Code de l'Indigénat ou…

Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, recently wrote an article and gave a presentation on 3-D printing nanocomposites. His article, titled “3D Printing Biocompatible Polyurethane/Poly(lactic acid)/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites: Anisotropic Properties” was…

The American Physical Society’s Division of Polymer Physics selected Michael Hore, assistant professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, to give a guest lecture at the U.K. Polymer Physics Group meeting in September at Swansea University. The group meets every other year…

Darcy Freedman, associate director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, recently publishing an article about evaluating healthy food incentive programs. Her article, titled “Dissemination of Technology to Evaluate Healthy Food Incentive Programs,” was published in the…

Jessica Powell, a junior studying biomedical engineering, biomaterials and tissue engineering, recently gave a presentation at the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 17th annual State of the Art Winter Symposium. Her presentation, titled “Synthetic Liver Function is Preserved in Transgenic…