University News
July 30, 2012
Exercise challenges … Zumba classes… cooking demonstrations—Case Western Reserve’s thinkFit program has offered all manner of opportunities for campus constituents to enhance their health.
So who would have thought that an activity as elementary as walking would prove to be this summer’s biggest dr...
July 24, 2012
Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing is set to become the epicenter of a comprehensive effort to enhance the quality and safety knowledge and skills for both future and practicing nurses around the country.
Next month, the nursing school becomes the new home of t...
July 18, 2012
A grant from Case Western Reserve’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) has catalyzed the second major improvement in the university’s Safe Ride program in the past three months.
The university’s police department recently launched RideCell, an online dispatch and tracking service that allows me...
July 10, 2012
Mark McGee, the foreman at Case Western Reserve University’s Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms and a 30-year employee of the university, passed away July 7 after a 15-month battle with cancer. He was 49.
McGee joined the university in June 1982 at the age of 19, eventually rising to the posit...
July 02, 2012
Jeffrey M. Halpern, a postdoctoral researcher and double alum, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to help develop a breath test that would identify early cancers.
“A goal is to create a test used during office visits—check-ups—as a first screening for cancer,” Halpern, 31, said.
He will spen...
June 27, 2012
Weatherhead School Dean Mohan Reddy (seated, right) met with the director of Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Father E. Abraham (seated, left), and the dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tongji University, Professor Jiazhen Huo (seated, center).
A newly established Global MBA progr...
June 25, 2012
Case Western Reserve University’s Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences is one of seven U.S. programs chosen to help China build its social work education programs over the next five years. The Mandel School was chosen from 215 U.S. schools with accredited graduate social work programs that recei...
June 22, 2012
Case Western Reserve University President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that Robert E. Widing II, dean of the Macquarie School of Management in Sydney, Australia, will become dean of the Weatherhead School of Management, effective Oct. 15. The appointment represents a homecoming for Widing, a ma...
June 20, 2012
Case Western Reserve University has joined a large group of higher education institutions and businesses across the country in a voluntary electricity-reduction program. As part of power grid operator PJM’s Emergency Demand Response program, the university will lower its electricity usage when opera...
June 20, 2012
A dozen Case Western Reserve University dental students and faculty members will descend 90 feet to an underground cave in Israel next month as part of an international project to search for insights to evolution from remains dating back as many as 200,000 years.
Working in conjunction with peers a...