Student Life

Take a break from studying and join Covenant Student Ministries for Connect today (Dec. 8) at 5:30 p.m. in the living room on the lower level of the Interfaith Center at Church of the Covenant. The event is an opportunity for students to connect with other students and their spiritual…

Join The International & Multicultural Exchange (TIME) for a celebration of Saint Lucia's Day Friday, Dec. 9, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in Thwing Center. The event will give students the chance to de-stress on the last day of finals and try traditional desserts.

Students are invited to Pre-Finals Pause, a one-hour event featuring slow-flow yoga and guided imagery mediation. The Campus Rest Initiative, a student organization dedicated to helping students manage the various stresses of campus life by focusing on cultivating healthy, restful habits, will…

Have you completed your second University Seminar but have not submitted your SAGES Writing Portfolio? Are you an undergraduate student interested in learning more about this graduation requirement? Come to an interactive workshop titled “Compile and Submit Your Writing Portfolio,” led…

I would like to alert our membership of the two-year initiative I set out for the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) at the national meeting last week. As President of AACI for the next two years, I asked all the cancer centers to participate in a review of practices and approaches…

Guest Commentary: Megan Kilbane, MBA, Assistant Dean for Oncology 2016 has been described as the year of 216, and it would be hard for anyone to argue that it is not truly the year for Cleveland to shine.  From the Cavs to the Monsters and soon to be the Indians, we are grabbing championships left…

The Department of Bioethics will host an open house reception and information session about the Integrated Graduate Studies (IGS) program Thursday, Oct. 27, at 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Iris S. & Bert L. Wolstein Research Building, Room 1413. Through the IGS program, students can earn their MA…

Circle K International at Case Western Reserve University will host its second annual haunted house Friday, Oct. 28, from 9 p.m. to midnight in Thwing Center. Tickets are $5, with all proceeds benefiting the Eliminate Project and St. Baldrick's Foundation. Last year's haunted house drew more than…

Results reported by University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Neurosurgeon Andrew Sloan, MD & colleagues Andrew SloanA new paper in the October issue of the journal Neurosurgical Focus finds the use of laser beneficial for the removal of large, "inoperable" glioblastoma (GBM) and other…

Invited commentary by Drs. Paula Silverman and Cheryl Thompson  A recent study by Jones et al. in The British Journal of Cancer (BJC)(Jones ME. Br J Cancer. 2016 Aug 23) estimated an almost 3 fold (2.74 times) increase risk of breast cancer among post-menopausal women who used combination estrogen…