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Case Western Reserve University’s varsity sports, which participate in NCAA Division III, will begin their 2017-18 season in earnest this weekend with all six fall teams in action, including home contests for men’s and women’s soccer and cross country.  Make sure to go to athletics.case.edu, the…

Kalle Lyytinen's work can be found at the intersection of two kinds of computing: wet computing—done by our brains—and the so-called dry computing of silicon microprocessors. Kalle Lyytinen, in his first semester at CWRU, 2001 (courtesy of University Archives) By studying how complex sources of…

Shirley Moore can’t recall a time in her life, even as a girl on the family’s Ashtabula, Ohio, dairy farm, when she didn’t want to be a nurse, to care for others. But Moore, the Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing and associate dean for research at the Frances Payne Bolton School of…

Think well. Live well. Be well. These six words sum up Case Western Reserve’s new, coordinated approach to creating a true campuswide culture centered on enhancing the health of all members of the university community. The institution long has offered students health and counseling services, and…

Proteins, an indispensable component orchestrating crucial bodily functions from the heartbeat to digestion, have been long studied. But a central mystery remains: How exactly do they carry out their life-maintaining activities? Through groundbreaking research in the structure and dynamics of…

Hearing a note or chord played perfectly in tune still has the power to send shivers through Ross W. Duffin. “It’s transcendent,” said Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, “precisely because it is such a rare achievement.” Duffin’s life in music could be defined the same way. Ross…

To the Faculty, Staff and Students of Case Western Reserve: We begin this academic year with the tragedy in Charlottesville fresh in mind. Headlines nationwide question how universities will balance free speech, campus safety and inclusion—with definitions of success depending largely on who is…

With hometowns ranging from Perth, Australia, to Point Pleasant, New Jersey, members of the undergraduate Class of 2021 come from all over the world. But they spent Saturday getting to know their new home. They took in Cleveland's vast offerings: touring Cleveland Browns stadium, taking in an…

Editor's Note: As of June 30, 2019, Case Western Reserve uses Rave Guardian. CWRU Shield is no longer active and should be deleted from all mobile devices. Download Rave Guardian on the App Store and Google Play. With classes starting Monday, we at The Daily wanted to give the newest members of…

A glimpse of the students comprising our newest undergraduate class Five days ago, about 1,300 first-year students arrived on campus for move-in day. Since then, the Class of 2021 has spent their orientation week getting to know one another and Case Western Reserve. And in just three days, they…