University News
August 06, 2012
Case Western Reserve University has contracted with Kelly Services to provide employees free opportunities to increase existing skills and develop new ones to meet the demands of the 21st-century workplace. Kelly, the international staffing and consulting corporation headquartered in Troy, Mich.,…
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…
July 25, 2012
Six summer interns are deep in local history at the Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) as part of faculty member John Grabowski’s “Museums—Theory and Reality” history class at Case Western Reserve University. The summer course, open to undergrads and graduate students from various…
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…
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…
July 16, 2012
Case Western Reserve University is the new academic home of a national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of underrepresented minority scientists and researchers at the doctoral level in science, engineering and medicine. The university forged this relationship with the…
July 11, 2012
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer considers ethics a key path to creating community. As the university’s Beamer - Schneider Professor in Ethics, he is tasked with promoting ethics throughout Case Western Reserve’s undergraduate curriculum. But upon arriving on campus in 2010, he chose to embrace an even…
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…
July 09, 2012
“This isn’t ninth grade writing anymore” seems to be the breakthrough statement that clicks with Case Western Reserve University students tutored in writing by Susan Dominguez. It’s no easy task to make the leap from high school to college-level writing, said Dominguez, an English department…
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…