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Everything we do has an impact on our planet—from sleeping with the TV on all night to letting the shower run while getting ready. But we may not realize just how much our daily habits make an impact. As global warming and climate change become more irreversible, it’s essential to take more steps to...

Fall event to feature physicist and novelist Alan Lightman Photo by Brian Smith With the 2022-23 academic year comes the return of the Think Forum lecture series at Case Western Reserve University, an invitation to members of campus and the Greater Cleveland community to engage with prominent acad...

Nathan Berger has produced decades of biomedical research into cancer development and its associated risk factors. He is a nationally renowned authority on hematology and oncology and founding member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, a consortium between Case Western Reserve, University Hospi...

If you don’t know what’s worth dying for, you don’t know what’s worth living for, either. That’s a topic of military ethics that Shannon French has explored for decades, both in her role as the Inamori Professor of Ethics at Case Western Reserve University and, before that, when she was teaching e...

Schedule includes slate of international programming and roster of returning favorites The world comes to Cleveland for the 2022-23 Silver Hall Concert Series at the Milton and Tamar Maltz Center for Performing Arts at the Temple-Tifereth Israel on the campus of Case Western Reserve University. Th...

Imagine you’re going about your day when all of a sudden, you’re notified that someone logged into your bank account. Or, you finally get a second to relax from a long day of classes, then you get a text that someone is using your identity for a fake profile on a dating app. These scenarios and othe...

When planning Case Western Reserve University’s first full-fledged homecoming since 2019, organizers seized the opportunity to reimagine some of the events. This included a bigger and more ambitious opening night celebration, a pregame party instead of a parade, and a free Saturday night homecoming ...

There’s nothing quite like a pandemic to illustrate the existence of a global mental health crisis. According to the World Health Organization, there was a 25% rise of anxiety and depressive disorders during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic alone—and the phenomenon has led to an influx of pa...

Vice President and General Counsel Peter Poulos announced today that Case Western Reserve’s interim leaders of public safety and police have been named permanently to their respective roles. Megan Koeth, who joined the university in 2018, is now the university’s executive director of public safety...

Oct. 6 was National Depression Screening Day. Instituted in 1991, this day is intended to pull the topic of depression from the shadows, shine a light on its prevalence and ways to identify it in your own life. If you’ve struggled with depression, you’re not alone. It’s the most common mental healt...