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From spearheading life-changing public health programs to driving innovation in technology and beyond, entrepreneurs play a vital role in supporting our society. Each November, National Entrepreneurship Month celebrates and recognizes these contributions—the type of entrepreneurial endeavors and inn...

A spin-off company from Case Western Reserve University has reimagined the often dangerous, labor-intensive process of road painting. While painting lines parallel to curbs is often an automated step, the typical approach to create many other new road markings is antiquated and dangerous. Enter Sa...

In 2002—in St. Louis, Missouri—Jeff Dalin and B. Ray Storm held the first Give Kids A Smile event, scraping together resources to provide free oral health care to 400 children. That legacy continued on Friday, Nov. 4, as Santanna Haywood—a fourth-grade student in the East Cleveland City School Dist...

While Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month ended Oct. 31, the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women reminds the campus community that the university’s services and support continue throughout the year. The Mather Center hosted multiple events to mark the annual national observance, and ev...

Miguel Zubizarreta (CWR ‘90) likes to be part of projects from the beginning. In the early 1990s he collaborated with the founder of a small startup to create a new software solution that launched Hyland Software’s journey to becoming a thriving global enterprise. Now Zubizarreta and his family ar...

As a nontraditional student, Jason Taylor is fully aware of his age and experience differences in the classroom. He chose to join the Armed Forces after high school, but now—as a member of Case Western Reserve University’s inaugural Posse Veterans Program cohort—he works every day to share his insig...

Campus startups in medicine and life sciences now have the chance to compete for access to the world’s first quantum computer dedicated to healthcare research. Cleveland Clinic announced this week that it is accepting applications to its newly launched Quantum Innovation Catalyzer Program. Up to fo...

Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine is celebrating Veterans Day with free dental exams for veterans and military personnel, bringing back the annual veteran-outreach effort on Friday, Nov. 10. The dental school will offer free dental exams, X-rays and cleaning for $25. Additio...

In the world of dance, few names shine as brightly as Martha Graham's. Her groundbreaking work and the company bearing her name have been at the forefront of contemporary dance for decades. As the company approaches its 100th anniversary in 2026, Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Dance...

Fifteen months after crews started construction, the final piece of the South Residential Village’s structure is now in place. University President Eric W. Kaler and Board of Trustees Chair Fred D. DiSanto commemorated the achievement Thursday by signing the last long white beam before construction...