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Case Western Reserve’s School of Dental Medicine launches new partnership with Hough Heritage to bring oral health care to seniors The "Lifelong Smiles" van is adding a new stop on its tour to deliver high-quality, discounted dental care to Cleveland-area seniors. The geriatric dental van is part…

From Oct. 14 to 16, industry leaders in digital transformation will gather at the first-ever Digital Futures Conference at Case Western Reserve University; early bird registration ends Sept. 13 Northeast Ohio is home to hundreds of “legacy” companies; while many have a strong history of capturing…

Case Western Reserve climbed to 40th in this year’s U.S. News & World Report undergraduate rankings of national universities—regaining two of the five positions lost last year, when the publication significantly changed its methodology. The move came thanks to modest improvements in…

A new mode of transportation has arrived in Cleveland: dockless, electric scooters. Earlier this month, the city launched a six-month pilot program that will allow four companies to operate these scooters in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County: Bird, Lime, Spin and VeoRide. (Some electric bikes…

A change in The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education (WSJ/THE) rankings methodology sent Case Western Reserve’s ranking tumbling to 52nd this year, 13 slots below its standing in 2018. For the rankings released last night, the publications chose to apply a new metric to measure student…

Case Western Reserve University and Boston-based Akouos have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to develop a patented gene therapy with the potential to treat hearing loss associated with a type of Usher syndrome,  the most common deaf-blind disorder. Usher syndrome is characterized by…

Lineup features award-winning authors, a playwright, leading-edge researchers on compassion and love, and taking back your life from that ubiquitous cell phone A playwright who has been compared to no less than dramatist Arthur Miller. A renaissance man named among TIME’s most influential people.…

The university's new Center for Engineering Action is giving a boost to student and faculty humanitarian projects Under a scorching Costa Rican sun, Neil Chavan shoveled a load of sand into a wheelbarrow and hauled it down a dirt road to where fellow Case Western Reserve University students used…

The Case Western Reserve University Class of 2023 wraps up its first week of classes today. Since the new students arrived on campus almost two weeks ago, they’ve been busy learning about the university and Cleveland. What have they been up to? Watch a video to recap their Discover Week experience…

Maybe an answer to the vexing neurological mysteries of epilepsy will come to Dominique Durand during his preferred thinking time: on his 7-mile bicycle commute from his home in Shaker Heights to Case Western Reserve University. Or maybe the critical bioengineering breakthrough Durand…