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Brain health collaboration wins grants
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…
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President’s Day camp offered for children of CWRU community members
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…
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The lost life of a woman who searched for the missing
New book by SAGES Fellow Brad Ricca uncovers the (ongoing) mystery of the real-life Mrs. Sherlock Holmes Grace Humiston only wore black. She worked as a detective for free, solving one of the biggest missing-persons cases of the early 1900s and antagonizing men at the highest levels of…
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Sphinx Performance Academy comes to Cleveland
In partnership with Case Western Reserve and the Cleveland Institute of Music Through a unique educational partnership with the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), the Sphinx Organization and Case Western Reserve University, the prestigious Sphinx Performance Academy (SPA) will take place in…
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Applications to the Class of 2021 top 25,000
More than 25,000 students applied for spots in the class that enters Case Western Reserve this fall, an increase of 10 percent over last year and the university’s tenth straight all-time record. Since President Barbara R. Snyder’s term began in 2007, total annual applications have more than…
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Interactive Commons team displays HoloLens exhibit at World Economic Forum’s 47th annual meeting
As 3,000 leaders gathered in Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s 47th annual meeting this week, the team from Case Western Reserve’s Interactive Commons was ready for its Davos debut. The renowned gathering of company CEOs, national government officials, scholars, journalists and more…
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President Snyder’s welcome to the new semester
To the Case Western Reserve Community: We begin this semester at an extraordinary time in the history of our country. Yesterday marked the federal holiday in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. This Friday, the nation’s first African-American president leaves office. His…
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Watch highlights of CWRU innovators at CES
From quickly spotting concussions on the field to changing how loved ones communicate across long distances, innovation from Case Western Reserve University students, faculty, staff and alumni was on display last week at CES. The international trade show in Las Vegas is where more than 170,000…
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Class searches for the meaning of a “good death”
An elderly woman is laid on a stainless-steel table, her hands folded, with a white sheet covering her face. For many of the Case Western Reserve University students in this class—Perspectives on Dying and Death: Normalizing the Inevitable—it’s their first time seeing death up close. Maryjo…
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Case Western Reserve University showcases student and alumni startups with 10 booths at CES 2017
Portable concussion screening, TV station in a box, a $200 3-D printer maker machine, augmented reality and more Case Western Reserve University will host 10 booths at CES 2017 with student, faculty and alumni founders. Their new or developing technologies include: a sideline test to keep an…