University News
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
June 14, 2012
Case Western Reserve University’s efforts to provide high-speed Internet access to residents near campus won White House recognition and a $300,000 federal grant today. The news came as President Obama signed an Executive Order to make broadband construction involving federal property—including…
June 12, 2012
As the school year came to a close, two rising juniors prepared for a three-week trip to Africa to study thermodynamics at the University of Botswana. Once they arrived, they learned plenty about engineering and also helped make the sport of tennis accessible to children in African…
June 07, 2012
Crews will begin to erect chain link fencing around the future home of the Tinkham Veale University Center today as they prepare to launch construction on the $50 million project later this summer. The 82,000-square-foot structure will be located just northwest of the university’s Kelvin Smith…