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Liz Roccoforte remembers being a sensitive kid. “I was easily upset by seeing others in pain, so much so that I was sometimes teased for being ‘oversensitive,’” she said. This sensitivity, however, remains at the core of her work. “I have a personal stake in the LGBTQ community,” said…

Editor’s Note: To get an up-close perspective of some of the first-year students’ introduction to their new home, the editor of The Daily, Katie Laux, joined students on the Creates Adventure, watching them experience different parts of Cleveland for the first time and witnessing the early start of…

Two men sat on stools in a ballroom at Tinkham Veale University Center earlier this week, passing a microphone back and forth as they fielded questions from 160 students entering their first year at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. It was Day One of orientation, and the “1L’s,”…

A decade of research and writing resulted in the novel, All the Light We Cannot See, which captured the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. But the extensive literary journey by author and Northeast Ohio native Anthony Doerr began with a…

User research, community feedback and technological advancements guide the next phase of online news at CWRU When we last overhauled The Daily, the Tinkham Veale University Center was no more than an architect’s drawing. What’s now Uptown was still a mass of construction fencing, metal and…

CWRU, Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft team to offer their perspectives With the future of health care certain to be a central issue for national leaders over the next four years, leaders from Case Western Reserve, Cleveland Clinic and Microsoft this morning will share their ideas with elected…

Some of the top international pianists will perform on campus next weekend as part of the 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition (CIPC) and Festival, held July 27–Aug. 7 in venues across the city. The competition will welcome more than 30 of the world’s best pianists vying for the top…

When it comes to online introductions, case.edu is our university’s front door. It’s the first place millions of visitors stop to learn more about Case Western Reserve—and where many already part of the community start to search for new information. Done well, the homepage immediately engages,…

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…

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…