Science + Tech
January 19, 2024
A Weekend to Remember
Homecoming and Reunion celebration featured prominent alumni and an unforgettable gala
Case Western Reserve University hosted Homecoming and Reunion Weekend in October, with alumni joining for more than 100 in-person and virtual events during which they reconnected with friend...

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January 19, 2024
Zhenghe John Wang, PhD, Chair of the Genetics and Genome Sciences Department and co-leader of Case CCC's Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program, was awarded a grant for $2,012,500 from National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute for his research titled Mechanisms of metabolic reprogramm...
January 19, 2024
Profiles of Promise
Scholarship funding empowers next generation of nursing talent and research
Writer: Mark Oprea
As Dean Carol Musil, PhD, RN (NUR ’79; GRS ’91, nursing) addressed the audience during the centennial celebration of Case Western Reserve University Frances Payne Bolton School of Nurs...
January 19, 2024
Class Notes, Honors & In Memoriam
These items appeared in the Winter 2023 issue of Forefront Magazine.
Class Notes
Submissions received between May 24 and Nov. 28, 2023.
Rob Davis, DNP, RN (NUR ’97, ’05, ’08), was inducted as a fellow at the Academy of Wilderness Medicine at the academy’s confer...
January 19, 2024
Reshmi Parameswaran, MS, PhD, member of Case CCC's Immune Oncology Program, was awarded a two-year, $200,000 Established Investigator Grant by the National Scleroderma Foundation. The funding supports her research using BAFF CAR-T treatment for systemic sclerosis.
Systemic scleroderma (SSc) is a ra...
January 19, 2024
This letter appears in the Winter 2023 issue of Forefront Magazine.
From the Dean
To the alumni and friends of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing,
As we begin a new year, I can’t help but reflect on the accomplishments that the previous one has brought to our community.
We celebrated the...
January 18, 2024
Class Year: 2025
Program: Master of Science in Nursing
Nursing is a second career for Valerie Lakes. Though growing up she was always interested in the STEM fields, the 35-year-old from Oxford, Ohio, spent five years teaching seventh grade near Columbus before becoming a nurse.
“When the time cam...
January 18, 2024
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce Agata Exner, PhD, has been appointed director of Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Imaging Research (CCIR). Dr. Exner serves as the Henry Willson Payne Professor and vice chair of basic research in the Department of Radiology and holds an adjunct...
January 18, 2024
When fourth-year student Milana Sacco first stepped foot on campus, she knew right away that Case Western Reserve was the perfect fit for her. It was the only university she found that accommodated her academic aspirations: a bachelor’s degree in business management with a secondary major in theater...

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January 17, 2024
Year: Fourth-year
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Co-op: Becton Dickinson (BD) Providence, Rhode Island, from June to December
What is your role?
Research and Development (R&D) Engineering Co-op.
What are your day-to-day tasks?
My day to day tasks include researching disease states, building hern...