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To help keep the Case Western Reserve community safe, the university’s Division of Public Safety has shifted to the federally supported Run. Hide. Fight. active-aggressor response training. This shift also means CWRU Alerts—via email, text, social media and website messages—will now encourage indi...

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT and Bard become more advanced and ubiquitous, [U]Tech reminds users to protect private information—their own, and the university’s. “Entering data into a generative AI tool or service,” said [U]Tech Vice President Miro Humer, “is like p...

‘Undergraduate Research & Creative Projects’ climbs to 21st; first-time ranking of entrepreneurship sees campus debut at 34th In a year in which sweeping methodological changes saw private institutions fall an average of 16 positions in U.S. News & World Report’s national university rankings, Case ...

It’s a memory many of us share: Getting dressed up, having our hair combed just so, standing in line with our classmates, sitting in front of a classic backdrop and smiling on the count of three. School photos captured a moment in time, allowing us to see how much we’d grown from year to year. In h...

Cleveland Scholars program to cover total cost of attendance—without loans—and include mentored, paid research or internship experience President Eric W. Kaler announced today that eligible Cleveland and East Cleveland public high school graduates admitted to Case Western Reserve will receive finan...

In the past decade, products bearing “gluten-free” labels have taken grocery store shelves by storm. But for generations of people who learned about food groups from visuals of pyramids with “breads and cereals” as their base, these products may prompt the question: Are there benefits to eating a gl...

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a five-year, $540,000 grant to support a program designed by two Cleveland researchers to increase the diversity of the scientific workforce. The Intensive Summer Education Program in Translational Research for Underrepresented Students (INSPIRE-US...

As part of university preparations for the Oct. 1 transition to an updated hybrid remote work program, the Office of Human Resources has posted important documents to its website. Starting next month, staff eligible to participate in the hybrid work program must be physically on campus three days a...

Fellows program to attract leading researchers to collaborate with university and hospital colleagues to develop promising solutions—and get them to patients After helping to launch the careers of 30 medical school researchers, the Mt. Sinai Health Foundation is partnering again with Case Western R...

Elina Gertsman’s interest in medieval art history may have developed, as she says, “simply by osmosis.” Growing up in Tallinn, Estonia, Gertsman was constantly surrounded by what she calls a “preternatural” beauty of this medieval town. As an art student she painted on its streets; when she was a k...