Featured Around CWRU

Ad to air locally on WKYC during NBC Olympic coverage As viewers across Northeast Ohio tune in to NBC to catch record-breaking events at the Paris Olympics, they also may catch a glimpse of life-changing research at Case Western Reserve. In a 30-second ad airing on Cleveland’s WKYC throughout Olym...

From clinical rotations in emergency departments to hands-on roles in engineering and nonprofit organizations, students at Case Western Reserve University are gaining invaluable experiences through internships this summer. In honor of today (July 25) being National Intern Day, we’re shining the spo...

With focus on recruiting and supporting students from rural and small towns, STARS doubles membership in second year Last summer, Case Western Reserve University became one of 16 founding members of the STARS College Network, which works to ensure the academic success of students from rural and sma...

Of the 4.7 million nurses in the United States, only 3,000 hold the distinction of membership in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), an organization representing the field’s most accomplished leaders in policy, research, administration, practice, and academia. More selective still is the academ...

Although the causal relationship between oral and cardiovascular health is not well-understood, researchers consider the link to be a 'predictive risk factor' Maintaining good oral health is crucial, not only for a radiant smile, but also a healthy heart, according to a new Case Western Reserve Uni...

Intervention by primary care clinicians may help more children access dental care and improve their oral health, according to new study Primary care pediatric clinicians could influence parents’ decisions to take their children to the dentist, according to a new clinical trial funded by the Nationa...

'By identifying violence exposure and trauma symptoms early on, we can intervene effectively and mitigate the long-term consequences for these vulnerable individuals.' The National Institutes of Health estimates millions of children and adolescents exposed to violence each year are more likely to s...

There’s only one U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved therapy for an inherited retinal disease, and dozens of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) genes for which no therapy is available. With a new three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Shigemi Matsuyama, an associate pr...

The evolution of resistance to diseases, from infectious illnesses to cancers, poses a formidable challenge. Despite the expectation that resistance-conferring mutations would dwindle in the absence of treatment due to a reduced growth rate, preexisting resistance is pervasive across diseases that ...

From the time he graduated with his PhD from Case Western Reserve in 2004, Rohan Akolkar knew he wanted to impact the world through his research. He spent eight years in industrial research and development at Intel Corporation before returning to the university to teach and pursue research in his ow...