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Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals researchers awarded five-year, $11.2 million federal grant to study esophagus cancers
With a new five-year, $11.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals hope to learn what causes—and how to reduce and treat—esophagus cancers, an increasingly common and deadly disease. Cancer of the esophagus, es...
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Engineering student organizes program to bring local elementary school students their own books
Sometimes all it takes to fall in love with reading is the right book. That’s why fourth-year electrical engineering student Albert Wilhelmy launched Book I Own (BIO), an outreach program that gives books to local third and fourth graders that match their interests. “A lot of kids grow up not liki...
Spartan Laundry Company LLC | A CWRU Student Startup Story
We are so excited to shout out one of our CWRU Entrepreneurs and micro grant recipients: Alex Warner, Founder of the Spartan Laundry Company! Alex is a 3rd year Accounting and Finance student from Tampa, Florida. Growing up, his first introduction to entrepreneurship was during Gasparilla, one of t...
Celebrating unsung heroes: Meet one custodian who keeps our campus in tip-top shape
From watching a goose raise her goslings on a patio overlooking Bellflower Road to witnessing students she befriended walk at commencement, custodian Dawn Roberson has had a front-row seat to the heartwarming and transformative moments that make the Case Western Reserve University campus more than j...
Nursing's Path of 100-Plus Years
The field of nursing is constantly evolving to meet the interests of nurses and the challenges of the times, making it a lucrative and secure career path. This is especially true for a city like Cleveland where healthcare has grown to be one of the city’s core industries. While the problem of attra...
A vision for rare cancer research: $5 million commitment launches CURE, a rare cancer initiative, at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
As National Rare Cancer Day nears (Sept. 30), Jed Ian Taxel Foundation for Rare Cancer Research announces major gift to spur cross-country collaboration Rare cancers are those that affect fewer than 15 of 100,000 people each year. But there are more than 200 types of rare cancer that comprise one-q...
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A vision for rare cancer research: $5 million commitment launches CURE, a rare cancer initiative, at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
As National Rare Cancer Day nears (Sept. 30), Jed Ian Taxel Foundation for Rare Cancer Research announces major gift to spur cross-country collaboration Less than six months after Jed Ian Taxel’s diagnosis with a rare metastatic cancer, he learned his treatment was ineffective. Weeks before his dea...
School of Medicine: first in the nation to use Epic's new EHR technology
Case Western Reserve University collaborates with Epic on new Lyceum platform to introduce medical students to electronic health records Becomes first medical school to use the technology The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is the first medical school to use Epic’s new Lyceum pl...
John J. Gallagher joins CWRU School of Nursing faculty
The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing welcomed six new faculty members for the Fall 2023 semester. John Gallagher, RN, DNP, CCNS, CCRN-K, TCRN, RRT, FCCM, FAAN, joins the School of Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh where he was also an advisor/clinical nurse specialist for the Trauma ...
Weatherhead’s EMBA program ranks #39 on Poets&Quants list
The Executive MBA program at Weatherhead School of Management was ranked #39 in the Poets&Quants 2023 composite ranking of the best EMBA programs in the United States. Poets&Quants ranked 67 schools through a composite of the top ranking lists by the U.S. News & World Report, The Financial Times an...