Science + Tech

Just two months ago, Melvyn Goldstein was awarded one of the university’s top faculty honors: the Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize, given to those who have made extraordinary contributions to the university and to their academic field. It’s a high honor among a lengthy list of accomplishments f...

Case Western Reserve physicists are part of a science project with the potential to be at least as huge as this month’s Higgs boson discovery—if not even greater. First described more than four decades ago, the Higgs boson is a subatomic particle that gives other particles mass. But that’s not enou...

Case Western Reserve University is the new academic home of a national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of underrepresented minority scientists and researchers at the doctoral level in science, engineering and medicine. The university forged this relationship with the Assoc...

Fuel cells are inefficient because the catalyst most commonly used to convert chemical energy to electricity is made of the wrong material, a researcher at Case Western Reserve University argues. Rather than continue the futile effort to tweak that material—platinum—to make it work better, Chemistry...

Individuals in buildings surrounding the future site of the Tinkham Veale University Center can expect occasional loud noise and vibrations on Monday as workers demolish a loading bay facing Bellflower Road. The disruptions should cease by 3:30 p.m. The demolition is part of the site preparation cr...

Do you work with students or clients who are resistant or ambivalent to change? If so, join the Case Western Reserve University Career Center staff in welcoming Liz Lierman, associate director of Career Services at Oberlin College, for a workshop on motivational interviewing in career counseling. T...

CLEVELAND - A new study published in the July 11 issue of the Journal of Neurosciences details the development of the first mouse model engineered to carry the most common mutation in Usher syndrome III causative gene (Clarin-1) in North America. Further, the research team from Case Western Reserve ...

“This isn’t ninth grade writing anymore” seems to be the breakthrough statement that clicks with Case Western Reserve University students tutored in writing by Susan Dominguez. It’s no easy task to make the leap from high school to college-level writing, said Dominguez, an English department lectur...

Analysis: Legal eagles redefine healthcare winners, losers Reuters: Over the past few days, some on the left and right are now viewing the Supreme Court’s Commerce Clause ruling on the Affordable Care Act as largely academic and say it won’t affect any current laws. “I’ve yet to see a list of vulne...

A team of Case Western Reserve University engineers has designed and fabricated integrated amplifier circuits that operate under extreme temperatures, up to 600 degrees Celsius—a feat that was previously impossible. The silicon carbide amplifiers have applications in both aerospace and energy indus...