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Glenn Starkman says his style of mentoring graduate students is similar to the way he taught his children to ride their bikes: He stays hands-off until the moment they need him—and the second that happens, he’s there, waiting to catch them. That hands-off-until-necessary approach earned Starkman,…

Eileen Anderson-Fye hopped up from a discussion with her graduate students to find an answer to their question in her email. When she opened her inbox, she read the subject line of a new message aloud: “Diekhoff Award–Congratulations.” Immediately, the students started cheering, until she opened…

Images from the capsule's camera; edited video will be on display at Springfest. Members of a pair of new clubs at Case Western Reserve University sent a mock-up of an Apollo capsule nearly 100,000 feet above Earth twice in the last two weeks. The Case Lunabotics and Case Rocket teams…

Case Western Reserve University has joined a nationwide effort to pilot new technology designed to advance scientific research and reduce higher education costs. As part of the initiative, researchers will be able to send data 10 times faster than previously—at the rate of 100 Gigabits per…

Students from Case Western Reserve chat with students in Hong Kong via a telepresence screen. One Friday night this semester, nearly 20 social work master’s students entered a meeting room at Kelvin Smith Library and took their seats. Within minutes, the high-definition screen in the room lit up,…

It should come as no surprise that not every word that rolls off the tongue of a politician is completely accurate. Much of it is, of course, but some of it isn’t—and who can keep track? That’s where Timothy Beal comes in. Beal, the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, recently launched his…

Yohannes Haile-Selassie has been making worldwide news recently, thanks to his latest fossil discovery that showed the famous early human ancestor “Lucy” had a close cousin—another pre-human species that existed at the same time and in the same region as Lucy but with a different method of…

When Brian Grimberg speaks at TEDxCLE April 20, it will be his first time attending the annual event—but not for lack of trying. “They kept selling out so quickly, and this year was no different,” he noted. “They doubled the seating capacity for this year’s event, but it still sold out in 39…

They may be used interchangeably in everyday talk, but there is a distinct difference between being an adult and being a grown-up—and that’s precisely what Lisa Damour intends to explain to a sold-out crowd of Cleveland-area adults (and grown-ups) during her talk at the upcoming TEDxCLE event April…

When Philip Niles arrived at Case Western Reserve University eight years ago to begin his undergraduate degree in economics, he never imagined the opportunities he would find in Cleveland. Now, as he prepares to graduate in May with both MD and MBA degrees (in addition to the bachelor’s degree he…