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By Kaitlin Murphy A mural depicting female engineers on bright, blocky backgrounds now stretches across a wall off the main entrance of the A.W. Smith Building. What was once a blank space, cluttered with garbage cans and recycling bins, now has been creatively and colorfully transformed by Clevel...

(Update: Parihug placed second and Reflexion Interactive Technologies placed third in the competition.) The top college startups in America are set to meet in a “Student Startup Madness” championship next month at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in Austin, Texas. And two of the “Entrepreneur...

On Saturday, Facebook officially entered its teenage years—meaning it’s been 13 years since a then-unknown Harvard student wrote the code that would evolve from a program to connect college students to one that today serves nearly 1.5 billion users worldwide. Over the succeeding years, many other so...

One of eight startups competing in Midwest regional Clean Energy Challenge (Update: RVS Rubber Solutions won the Feb. 9 competition and $50,000 grant, moving on to the national competition in June.) According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), about 100 million pounds of tire compon...

Case Western Reserve’s Faculty Senate this week condemned President Trump’s Jan. 27 Executive Order regarding entry of refugees and individuals from seven predominantly Muslim countries. By a vote of 30-2, the university’s representative body for faculty Tuesday passed a resolution that called the ...

Nearly 400 students from Cleveland-area public schools will receive free oral exams and other dental care from faculty and students at the Case Western Reserve School of Dental Medicine on Feb. 3 as part of the 15th annual national Give Kids a Smile Day. Ronald Occhionero All children will receiv...

For the first time ever, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) bestowed its Division III Female National Player of the Week accolade on a Case Western Reserve University athlete. On Tuesday, USBWA selected Kara Hageman, a junior forward, for the honor. “It means a lot to me to receive thi...

Business management schools compete for the best, brightest and most creative MBA students. This competition requires schools to think differently about how they source potential applicants. With that in mind, Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management is testing a new appro...

A city-wide initiative that aims to make Northeast Ohio an epicenter of brain health research and care has won $1.5 million in support from The Cleveland Foundation. The grant to Case Western Reserve, host of the Cleveland Brain Health Initiative, is the largest that the project has received to dat...

Children of members of the Case Western Reserve community can check out some “amazing species” next month as part of a President’s Day camp offered at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Coordinated through the President’s Committee on Child Care Options (PCCCO), the session will run from 9 a....