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To the Case Western Reserve Community: Our campus started to come alive last Sunday with the arrival of 1,360 first-year students and the launch of orientation activities introducing them to our university and the city we call home. With that preamble complete, they will join more than 3,300…

Cars have been unloaded. New roommates have spent their first nights in their new home. Parents have bid farewell. The class photo on DiSanto Field has been captured. And with that, we welcome the Case Western Reserve University Class of 2023. This weekend, roughly 1,360 first-years, as well as 60…

Surrounded by boxes and bins, the Case Western Reserve University Class of 2023, composed of about 1,360 students, officially arrived on campus yesterday (Aug. 18). The university also is welcoming approximately 60 transfer students to campus. Throughout move-in day, volunteers helped unload…

After a successful inaugural season, the Silver Hall Concert Series returns with a diverse slate of free music performances—from guitar ensembles, to orchestras and choirs of many stripes—at Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at the Temple–Tifereth Israel’s Silver Hall at Case Western…

Part of Inter/Urban: Art & Culture Connector public art partnership Riders are on the rapid transit line zooming past Case Western Reserve University will see a new flash of color. People visiting, working or living in Little Italy may notice a drab wall on an industrial building by the tracks…

President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson announced today that Case Western Reserve has relaunched its search for the university’s next Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity. As the two wrote in a June email to faculty and staff, the 2018-19 search “drew many…

Announced little more than a year ago, Case Western Reserve’s second significant collaboration with Microsoft already is offering meaningful results. Today, the two organizations announced a breakthrough made possible by pooling their respective strengths: the university’s in medical imaging, and…

Transition from CWRU Shield will provide users enhanced functionality, ease of use Case Western Reserve has launched a new mobile safety app, Rave Guardian. The award-winning app—created by Rave Mobile Safety, which the university already uses to send emergency alerts—replaces CWRU Shield and…

Case Western Reserve University is listed 17th—up from 43rd last year—in the “Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2018” rankings compiled by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO). The rankings, which highlight the…

For the second straight year, the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program made The Hollywood Reporter's list of top 25 graduate acting programs in the world, ranking 12th—up six slots from the previous year. The Hollywood Reporter, which bases its…