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Law students, alumna give homeless tent city a ‘Second Chance’
All photos by Matt Shiffler. Current and former law students from Case Western Reserve University stepped in with legal services to help an Akron homeless shelter keep its doors open. Rebecca Sremack, a 2014 CWRU law school graduate who practices law with her father in Akron, heard the charity…
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How emergency departments, doctors’ offices can help prevent suicide
CWRU’s Jane Timmons-Mitchell co-authors book outlining suicide prevention Suicide prevention shouldn’t be limited to hotlines and therapy sessions. In addition, caregivers in hospitals and primary-care offices should be trained to identify suicide warning signs. That’s according to Jane…
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XaTek Inc. raises $9.1 million to advance ClotChip, a hand-held device to quickly gauge blood’s clotting ability
Technology developed by Case Western Reserve researchers; licensed by Technology Transfer Office XaTek Inc., a Cleveland-based company developing a portable sensing system that can quickly assess the clotting ability of a person’s blood, recently raised $9.1 million in Series A capital to further…
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Shining a light on amphibian decline
New research links excessive artificial light to developmental issues in toads; possible connection to worldwide amphibian crisis A pair of researchers at Case Western Reserve University are suggesting that excessive, human-caused artificial light at night may be contributing to a worldwide…
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Celebrating 100 years at the Mandel School
Case Western Reserve University has a long, rich history in social work. As the nation’s first university-affiliated professional graduate school of social work, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences holds a special place in history. That historical account is now…
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‘Breakthrough’ energy storage
U.S. Department of Energy awards $10.75 million to establish Energy Frontier Research Center at Case Western Reserve University The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Case Western Reserve University $10.75 million over four years to establish a research center to explore “Breakthrough…
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Legacy of ‘redlining’: How 1930s Cleveland mortgage-lending maps mirror today’s poverty
Many of the Cleveland neighborhoods that banks “redlined” almost a century ago have some of the city’s highest rates of poverty and crime. Although the lending practice of rejecting mortgage applications in specific neighborhoods—more accurately, to minorities—was banned more than 50 years ago,…
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Campus law-enforcement accreditation assessment team invites public comment
Case Western Reserve University’s Division of Public Safety is scheduled for an on-site assessment Aug. 12-14 as part of a program to achieve accreditation by verifying it meets professional standards. Administered by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA),…
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Hands-on improvements
Amputees use new, naturalistic sensory device at home for daily tasks, gain greater sense of personal well-being and connection to loved ones In the first known study of how amputees use  advanced sensory-enabled prostheses outside the lab, subjects used a mechanical hand more regularly and for…
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Fossil finds
Case Western Reserve researchers, collaborators from two other universities, identify two new ancient mammals in Bolivia dig Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and two other universities have discovered the 13-million-year-old fossils of a pair of new species of extinct hoofed mammals…