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Discrimination endured by black shoppers forces them to downplay their race or shy away from an activity among the most common and celebrated in American culture, according to new research. The study, “Shopping While Black,” published in the Journal of Consumer Culture, details how…

Study suggests ways marketing and clinical treatment can influence behavior The relationship between desire and attention was long thought to only work in one direction: When a person desires something, they focus their attention on it. Now, new research reveals this relationship works the other…

When Case Western Reserve University student Karen Opper dances in the debut performance of Imagined Odyssey, she will not see the show’s elaborate visuals surrounding her—but her audience will. Each of the 80 audience members will wear a Microsoft HoloLens to view Imagined Odyssey The show’s…

CWRU School of Medicine receives $2.5 million grant for Cleveland minority students Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in partnership with the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, was awarded a five-year grant totaling $2.5 million to engage underrepresented minorities in…

CWRU researcher working with NASA, other partners to build small, battery-powered aircraft in next several years Need to catch a fast ride from Cleveland to Pittsburgh? Get ready to hail your first “air taxi”—and maybe sooner than you think. Vikas Prakash, a Case Western Reserve University…

Nurse entrepreneur’s homemade innovation may soon be available worldwide As an operating room nurse, Jill Byrne saw how heat shortened the tempers and focus of stressed, sweating surgeons. “When even brilliant and confident surgeons look like they’ve been in a dunk tank, you worry about their…

NIH grant may enable new directions for cancer immunotherapies Nicole Steinmetz, the George J. Picha Designated Professor in Biomaterials, received a major grant from the National Institutes of Health to help understand how a virus-like particle from plants stimulates potent anti-tumor…

New Brookings Institution report highlights advantages of urban universities in research-related economic activity Case Western Reserve ranked 13th in the country—ahead of Harvard, Georgia Tech, and the University of Chicago—in a new study of research universities’ effectiveness in translating…

Case Western Reserve’s overhaul of how it prepares law students reaped impressive results this year, as its graduates posted a 93 percent passage rate on Ohio’s July bar examination. The figure—for first-time test-takers—bested every other law school in the state, with the margin ranging from 6 to…

“Smart” technologies and connected systems—enabled by “the Internet of Things” (IoT)—are profoundly changing how people live and work. To support research that helps communities understand and adapt to that transformational change, the National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated a Smart &…