University News
December 12, 2011
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community have offered more than 100 Bright Ideas since the university launched its online suggestion box last month. From composting to co-ops, energy-saving measures to equipment updates, the responses show that people at Case Western Reserve really…
December 06, 2011
Dorothy Ebersbach applied to the Women Airforce Service Pilots in 1943, when this photograph was taken. A pioneering female aviator who served her country during World War II has made a gift to Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing—a gift that combines her love…
November 29, 2011
American art historian and Case Western Reserve University art history professor Henry Adams has written extensively about painters like Thomas Hart Benton, Thomas Eakins, Jackson Pollock, Andrew Wyeth and Grant Wood. Now he turns his attention to photographer Abe Frajndlich, whose images of major…
November 23, 2011
Well-known faculty member and academic Robert Binstock, PhD, passed away Monday evening. Binstock was the professor of Aging, Health and Society but served in a variety of roles across the university. He held primary appointments in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the School…
November 21, 2011
Case Western Reserve University is one of four area higher education institutions to be named part of Blackstone LaunchPad, an initiative to give university students, faculty and alumni the skills, knowledge and guidance they need to start new companies. The Blackstone Charitable Foundation and The…
November 16, 2011
The nation of Costa Rica has only one nurse-scientist with a PhD conducting research in the field—but Ana Laura Solano Lopez is hoping to change that. A student in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing’s bachelor’s-to-doctorate program, Salano, of Turrialba, Costa Rica, is one of four…
November 15, 2011
History is constantly changing, and now The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History is updating itself as well. Launched in 1998 as an online publication after more than 10 years in print, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History added many new articles but kept a similar look over the years. That all…
November 07, 2011
Monique Balthazar has a dream for her relatives in Haiti. As part of her dual doctorate program, the second-year graduate student at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University wants to create a mobile health clinic to reach inhabitants of the remote, mountainous…
November 07, 2011
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine today announced gifts to establish the inaugural Parker Hannifin – Helen Moss Cancer Research Foundation Professorship in Integrative Oncology. This professorship will establish the School of Medicine and its affiliate hospitals as national leaders…
November 02, 2011
At times shocking, fun and outrageous, a group of local artists who formed the Kokoon Klub and started hosting Bal Masques in 1911 did more than bring out vice squads or orders from Cleveland mayors to cancel one of the hottest events in the city. They introduced modern art to Cleveland. The Bal…