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Guidelines released for on-campus operations July 18-21 Last week’s tragedies have horrified us all and raised profound questions for our country. Amid our shock and grief, we also recognize that our city soon will host the Republican National Convention (RNC), an event that is expected to draw doze...

Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report Patients in dental chairs at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine soon will see something new: a nurse. Students from Case Western Reserve University’s dental and nursing schools will take an innovative and interprofe...

Leah Levey and Elshaday Belay prepare to ship boxes full of equipment to Kenya. Photo by Dain McKee. As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, youth halfway around the world are saying thanks to two student-athletes at Case Western Reserve University. Juniors Elshaday Belay and Leah Levey have starte...

Obesity and dental cavities increase and become epidemic as children living below the poverty level age, according to nurse researchers from the Case Western Reserve University and the University of Akron. “It’s the leading cause of chronic infections in children,” said Marguerite DiMarco, associat...

Case Western Reserve has revamped its approach to managing potential threats to the safety of individuals on campus. Starting this week, members of the university community can learn more about available resources and steps they can take to help ensure their safety—and that of their peers. The cent...

Members of the Case Western Reserve community are invited to attend a memorial service Friday in Cleveland Heights for longtime university staff member Elise Lindsay and her husband, Gregory. The couple passed away last week in their home of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning from a furnace in thei...

“Be yourself” is something diehard Clevelanders know in their hearts. That message is clear from Rust Belt Chic, a collection of Cleveland essays edited by Case Western Reserve University’s Richey Piiparinen and Anne Trubek of Oberlin College. Rust Belt Chic, Piiparinen said, is about spaetzle and ...

Driving down the road, Lisa Huisman Koops, from Case Western Reserve University, bursts into song. “I see a red car. What do you see?” Her young daughter in the back seat sings her reply. The Koops’ car is more than transportation. It is what the assistant professor in music education calls a musi...

A sailor who won a silver medal at this summer’s London Paralympics describes in a new book how cutting-edge medical technology from the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center allowed her to resume an active life after being paralyzed 14 years ago. Jennifer French’s On My Feet Again: My...