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At Case Western Reserve University, each year is filled with student, faculty, staff and alumni successes; research breakthroughs; and big moments that add to our storied history. Last year was no exception. 2017 was a year that saw the university named one of the country’s Top 10 Centers for Biome...

Editor’s Note: After consultation with the Faculty Senate in 2014, the president’s annual State of the University report transitioned from a spoken address to a written account. Below is 2017’s edition; readers are encouraged to post questions and comments. To the Case Western Reserve University co...

Mark A. Griswold, a professor in the Department of Radiology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors 2017 Fellows Program, the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors. He was elected as a fellow for having ...

Recipient played central role in Apollo space missions and worldwide desert groundwater exploration Farouk El-Baz As Apollo 11 slowly descended to the moon’s surface, the team of NASA scientists responsible for choosing the first lunar landing site was as anxious and in awe as the rest of the worl...

In high school, Nikole Hannah-Jones discovered both a profession and a purpose. Working for the school newspaper, she began writing about students, like her, who were bused across Waterloo, Iowa, as part of a voluntary school desegregation program. Nikole Hannah-JonesCredit: James Estrin, The New...

Each year during the holiday season, faculty and staff come together to celebrate the end of the semester at the Adelbert Hall Open House. President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost William A. “Bud” Baeslack invite faculty and staff to this year’s installment of the annual event, to be held Friday, De...

With sales growing more than 2,000 percent over the last five years, Strongsville-based ArtWall—a manufacturer of on-demand canvas art products—claims the top spot in the 2017 Weatherhead 100. Michael Goldberg The overall list, celebrating the swiftest-growing companies headquartered in Northea...

Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine’s main clinic is offering discounted services to new patients who sign up for a comprehensive care plan during “Admitting Week,” Dec. 4-8. Anyone at least 18 years old who has never enrolled as a patient at the dental clinic can receive a de...

President Barbara R. Snyder and Professor Daniel J. Flannery will join Ohio Sens. Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman today (Nov. 29) at a bipartisan public policy briefing on the opioid epidemic in Washington, D.C. The event, titled “Combating the Opioid Crisis, From Treatment to Enforcement: Best Pract...

Rastafarian inmate says prison officials forcibly cut his dreadlocks, kept as part of religious practices An Ohio inmate who practices Rastafarianism has sued the director of the state prison system and five others, claiming they violated his Civil Rights by forcibly cutting his dreadlocks and preve...