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The last time a law school from the United States won a world championship in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition was 2008. The law school was Case Western Reserve University. The current Case Western Reserve team is hoping to repeat that result as the squad heads to…

Eleanor “Nell” Davidson came to Cleveland in 1983 as a nephrology fellow at University Hospitals, where she expected to spend the next three years honing her specialty in treating kidney disease. But after working a few hours a week in Case Western Reserve’s University Health Service, she soon…

Throughout May, organizations and individuals across the country have celebrated Mental Health Awareness Month to raise awareness for and reduce the stigma of mental illnesses. Though the month is coming to a close, mental-health awareness initiatives and services are ongoing at Case Western…

With temperatures expected to reach into the 50s, next week will offer the Case Western Reserve University grounds crew a break from February’s typical harsh winter weather. But when snow begins falling on campus and ice starts covering the walkways, as it inevitably does in Cleveland, the crew…

Greg Banaszak, a music instructor with a whimsical air about him, explained his desire to master the saxophone as pure instinct. After hearing Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are” at 10 years old, he said, something clicked. He didn’t even know the instrument being played. But he instantly told his…

While working in professional development and learning at Kent State University, Robert Hall often found himself considering the same question: What makes people change their performance? Hall was captivated by Harvard scholar Srini Pillay’s book, Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great…

As a mechanical engineering major, Rachel Laveson is accustomed to solving problems on the fly. In fact, that’s what drew her to engineering in the first place. That skill has come in handy many times this summer for Laveson, who is interning in the Engineering Education Summer Outreach…

[dropcap size=big]L[/dropcap]isa Camp is a driving force behind innovation at Case Western Reserve, and now she’s taking it to the national level. As associate dean for strategic initiatives at the Case School of Engineering, Camp is charged with working on complex special projects that bring…

Roman Sheremeta doesn’t get anxious often. But when he was watching the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals just a few weeks ago, he recognized a feeling he hadn’t had in quite some time. “I teach hundreds of students every year. Several times I spoke to thousands of people in large auditoriums.…

Matt Englander believes there are two key ingredients to running a marathon: time and will. And he certainly has the will. Ten months after undergoing surgery for brain cancer in fall 2011, Englander, Case Western Reserve University’s head baseball coach, ran his first marathon. After that first…