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President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the appointment of a longtime Ohio State University diversity leader as Case Western Reserve’s new vice president for inclusion, diversity and equal opportunity. Robert Solomon, an Akron native who serves as Ohio State’s assista...

A $1 million, two-year grant from the Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust will allow researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to further their work on developing drugs to treat Huntington’s disease (HD) and other neurological disorders. Xin Qi, an associ...

To the Case Western Reserve Community: We start this decade amid significant uncertainty. From recent military escalation in Iran to ongoing effects of climate change, the new year dawns with ample cause for concern. Yet to me, it offers even greater reason for hope. Just last week, the American ...

From password protection entrepreneur to an Alexa hackathon champion, teams sponsored by university and LaunchNet programs are ready to demo From “tricked-out” robots to augmented and virtual reality to sound-warping software, the entrepreneurial and inventive best from Case Western Reserve Univers...

Supported with three-year, $2.75M grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation With a $2.75 million, three-year grant from the Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Foundation, researchers from Case Western Reserve University will lead a community-wide initiative to create and apply innovative methods to prev...

U.S. Department of Energy awards newest ‘Industrial Assessment Center’ to Case Western Reserve University, covering parts of Ohio, Michigan and Western Pennsylvania Case Western Reserve University will soon offer free energy-efficiency assessments to qualifying manufacturing companies and water tr...

On a single summer day in 1990, Mahmoud Ghannoum’s life changed completely. The research scientist was speaking at a conference in Washington, D.C., while his wife and children continued their family vacation in England. But then, on Aug. 2, Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait. And Ghanno...

From influential guests on campus to research breakthroughs, 2019 was full of headlines at Case Western Reserve University. As we look forward to a new year, we wanted to take the time to look back at what happened at Case Western Reserve. In 2019, we announced the totals from the Forward Thinking ...

Microsoft will no longer provide security and functional operating patches for the Windows 7 operating system as of Jan. 14, 2020. As a result, Case Western Reserve University will discontinue its support for Windows 7 on the same day. Unsupported operating systems are a serious security and privacy...

Findings could support first clinical trial Investigators at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine discovered that blocking interleukin-1α (IL1α), a protein that controls inflammation in the gut, markedly decreases the severity of intestinal inflammation in a mouse model of Crohn’...