University News
August 20, 2012
Harvey Salkin, who served on the faculty of the Weatherhead School of Management for 43 years, passed away earlier this month after suffering complications and a stroke after surgery. He was 67. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Salkin earned a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, a…
August 15, 2012
Whether this marks your first or 50th autumn at Case Western Reserve University, you can always find something new to discover on campus and around Cleveland. Now, a newly redesigned visit site will help people find more of what the area has to offer. Located at case.edu/visit, the website…
August 09, 2012
Dorothy Ebersbach’s desire to help others stretched even further today as the trustees of her estate announced a second $2 million commitment to support flight nursing at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. The decision brings her total gifts to the school to…
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…