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�Ӱ���Ƶ’s health law program leapt to fifth in the nation and pediatrics climbed to 14th in U.S. News & World Report’s annual graduate and professional school rankings released Tuesday. Those gains, coupled with a seven-point jump, to 30th, for the Weatherhead School of Management’s Par...

Sniffing, a common behavior in dogs, cats and other animals, has been observed to also serve as a method for rats to communicate—a fundamental discovery that may help scientists identify brain regions critical for interpreting communications cues and what brain malfunctions may cause some complex so...

When Becky Sloan was about 13, her love for writing took root. Now, nearly 60 years later, she’s published her first novel, Branches—a work that took years of writing, rewriting, editing and retooling in order to be fit for print. Sloan’s long journey led her to realize four crucial words of wisdom...

The ongoing and wide-ranging community engagement of �Ӱ���Ƶ faculty, staff and students has earned a prestigious national honor. The university was named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction by the Corporation for National an...

Four members of the Board of Trustees together have committed $10.5 million to Forward Thinking: The Campaign for �Ӱ���Ƶ. The gifts, announced at the board’s February meeting, will support programs ranging from student scholarships to academic programs and building projects....

A professor from �Ӱ���Ƶ School of Medicine is one of the lead authors of a study identifying seven new regions of the human genome that are associated with increased risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness among older adults. The AMD Gen...

Watching a loved one die tests some family members’ relationships with God. This spiritual anger and resentment increases with the level of pain and suffering their family member endures, according to researchers at �Ӱ���Ƶ. Psychologist Julie Exline and palliative care adva...

Researchers at �Ӱ���Ƶ and its primary affiliate University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center will begin testing the first of two technologies they plan to combine in a new effort to enable people with paralysis to regain some control of their arms and hands. The physicians...

Today marks the start of the sequester, the imposition of $85 billion in across-the-board cuts in federal spending for this fiscal year. Like many leading national universities, �Ӱ���Ƶ relies heavily on federal funds for research and also receives significant government assistance for ...

For Maxwell Mehlman, everything happens for a reason. Take, for example, his entire career. “Everything that has happened to me was part of a sequence of fortuitous events,” Mehlman said. When Mehlman graduated from law school at Yale University, he headed to Washington, D.C., to practice. He took...