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Andrew Pieper receives CWRU’s second eminent professorship
Andrew Pieper, MD, PhD, is tackling some of medicine’s toughest targets: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson's and brain injury. Now, his work at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is getting an even bigger boost thanks to alumna and psychiatrist Rebecca E. Barchas, MD (MED ’75). Pieper’s…
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March 27, 2023
Dear colleagues, In honor of a remarkable career, I share the news about the death of faculty emeritus Dr. Randall D. Cebul whose medical career focused on improving the quality of care for populations most in need. We have lost a true champion for those whose voices often go unheard. Joining…
March 24, 2023
The nominees for the 2023 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2023 J. Bruce Jackson, MD, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring were recently announced. Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Established in honor of Carl Wittke in…
March 23, 2023
Join us Tuesday, April 4 from 4 - 5 PM in the Dampeer Room at Kelvin Smith Library for Exploring queer-trans intimacy, disability aesthetics, and community care in JC Pankratz’s Seahorse. A Talk. A Performance. A Gathering. In this director’s talk, CWRU Humanities in Leadership Learning Series…
March 22, 2023
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a session titled “Application Tips & Tricks: How to Enhance My Application for a MS in Systems Biology and Bioinformatics” Monday, March 27, from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom. Jackie Davis, education program manager, and Gürkan…
March 17, 2023
Members of the Center for Aerospace Physiology in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University recently met with their colleagues at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Their objective was to discuss ongoing collaborative research and educational initiatives,…
March 17, 2023
Sanjay Rajagopalan, director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute and professor of medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, discussed the relationship between air pollution and cardiovascular events on Cardi-OH Radio’s podcast, “Air Pollution Exposure and the Heart.” In…
March 14, 2023
As part of the Frontiers in Biological Science Lecture Series, the Department of Pharmacology will host Timothy Alan Springer, professor at Harvard Medical School and co-recipient of the 2022 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Springer will present “Touching the Soul of the Integrin…
March 13, 2023
The ILiADS (Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship) Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the eighth Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship! This year’s Institute, hosted by Davidson College in North Carolina, will be held in person July 23-28, 2023. ILiADS offers a week-long…
March 13, 2023
Paul Berg, PhD [GRS'52], Nobel Prize winner and pioneer in the field of genetic engineering, who earned his PhD in biochemistry from Western Reserve University in 1952, died last month. Berg became the university’s first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1980 when he was awarded the prize “for his…
March 13, 2023
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to an “Anti-Racism, Anti-Colonialism and Climate Change” virtual speaker series event with Dipesh Chakrabarty, an influential postcolonial scholar, Thursday, April 6, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Chakrabarty’s work is now canonical and…