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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…

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…

From holding online classes with Google+ to building a weekly newspaper with Google Sites, faculty and students are finding innovative uses for the Google Apps for Education suite at Case Western Reserve University. The collection of collaboration and productivity tools—available to all university…

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,…

Case Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Museum of Art announced the award of two grants totaling $500,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the launch of the re-designed Joint Doctoral Program in Art History. The highly selective, object-oriented program features first-hand…

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…

When fourth-year dental student Kyle Krause started considering ways to pop the question to his girlfriend of five years, he wanted to make the moment more than memorable—he wanted a proposal so original it was absolutely unprecedented. His first step? Rummaging through a pile of sticks. Krause…

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…

“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…