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Research Impact

Case Western Reserve University’s researchers set purpose into motion, delivering new technology, groundbreaking cures, and answers to our most pressing questions. Here, diverse interests connect in ways that drive discoveries no single field could uncover alone—discoveries that launch startup companies, fuel economic growth and inspire real-world change.

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Health + Wellness

Cleveland research team identifies key driver of age-related cognitive decline

Researchers from University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland VA published preclinical results in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Medical Breakthroughs

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Health + Wellness

Advancing women’s health: Trauma-informed obstetrics care at center of CWRU researcher’s work

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People

Meet an engineering PhD candidate helping crack the code to why patients can experience walking impairments after strokes

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People

Meet a researcher uncovering how viruses replicate in unexpected places

Energy, Environment and Sustainability

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Science + Tech

Tiny DNA ‘hitchhikers’ may be reshaping life in thawing Arctic soils

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University News

Ask a professor: CWRU professor Peter Whiting shares how environmental changes are impacting Lake Erie

James Galm

Alumnus James Galm commits $10 million to advance energy and electrochemistry research at Case Western Reserve University

Tech, Business and Policy

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Research Impact

How Case Western Reserve University researcher Zach Patterson uses bioinspired robots to build safer, smarter machines

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Science + Tech

Could a crane fly’s nervous system inspire new technology to help humans?

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Business, Law + Politics

Yemen Accountability Project at CWRU issues white paper on Yemen piracy

Arts, Life and Wellness

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Raúl Soria
Health + Wellness

Leading the way: Workplace violence prevention program will extend School of Nursing’s legacy of innovation

CWRU students Nicholas Stewart and Kennedy Wolf at an excavation site.

Case Western Reserve University goes digging

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Health + Wellness

New research connects climate change to increasing heat-related heart disease nationally