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Richard Drushel, senior instructor and executive officer in the Department of Biology, considers teaching an opportunity to repay staff and faculty who helped him as an undergraduate and graduate student at Case Western Reserve University. “I’m a lifer at this university,” said Drushel, who arrived...

After three decades of practicing medicine, David Kazdan, who has a PhD in biomedical engineering from CWRU and is a musician, birder, cyclist, photographer and licensed pilot of manned airplanes and of drones, returned to Case Western Reserve University to teach a SAGES course based on his passion ...

A cyberattack that law enforcement officials estimate affected more than 200,000 computers around the globe did not compromise Case Western Reserve’s major servers or other technological infrastructure—but [U]Tech urges campus users to act immediately to ensure their individual devices are protected...

Alex Huang, associate professor of pediatrics, pathology, biomedical engineering and general medical sciences in the School of Medicine, knows firsthand the value of mentoring. At age 14, he moved with his family from Taiwan to Chicago. One of his earliest mentors was his high school physics teache...

On eve of sabbatical, Art History and Art chair Catherine Scallen is recognized with John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Catherine Scallen’s students know she has an open-door policy that’s especially for them—even as she juggles the responsibilities that come with se...

Materials Science and Engineering Professor Frank Ernst, recipient of a 2017 John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching, is sure his students know he considers them his “colleagues in science” by making himself approachable and seeking their most creative ideas. That “open-door” teaching method s...

A 30-piece painting by the late Julian Stanczak is being installed on a 20-foot-high by 16 1/4-foot-wide white wall in the two-story atrium of the renovated Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. The piece, titled, Proportional Mixing, 2011, is part of the artist’s Constel...

Volunteer “Green Teams” will help reduce waste and educate fans Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians teamed with three graduate students from Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management to help produce a report highlighting the ballclub’s efforts to make Progressive Field...

Collaboration will include joint course development and research The “Internet of Things (IoT),” which refers to the vast interconnected network of devices—from cell phones to factory equipment—provides a treasure trove of data and other information that can greatly improve numerous aspects of socie...

Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management’s wide-ranging entrepreneurial education program, known as Beyond Silicon Valley, has been honored in the first Entrepreneurship Spotlight Challenge (ESC) of AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business...