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CWRU Parent & Family Weekend, Donuts with the Dean set for Sept. 27-29
This year's Parent and Family Weekend at ӰƵ will take place Friday, Sept. 27, through Sunday, Sept. 29. Parents and families can look forward to on- and off-campus activities, receptions and opportunities to engage with the ӰƵ Community,…
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ӰƵ receives $1.5M grant from Foundation Fighting Blindness to test possible new treatment for inherited retinal disease
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…
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Case Studies in Translational Science: Identifying Best Practices to Accelerate the Translational Process
In early 2024, the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Coordination, Communication, and Operations Support (CCOS) Center awarded Working Group (WG) status to the “Translational Science Case Group”. This group, officially known as, "Learning about the Science of Translation: Identifying…
Evelyn Duffy named Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing is proud to announce that Evelyn Duffy, DNP, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP (DNP ‘04) the Florence Cellar Professor of Gerontological Nursing, has been selected for induction into the American Academy of Nursing as part of the 2024 Class of Fellows.  The Academy honors…
Undergraduate student selected for prestigious BioMed Amgen Scholars Program at Yale University
Reda Riffi, a first-generation student at ӰƵ, was selected to participate in the BioMed Amgen Scholars Program at Yale University this summer. Riffi is majoring in neuroscience and conducts research at CWRU in the Xiong Lab. The BioMed Amgen Scholars Program is a…
Dexter Voisin discusses rise in youth violence in Toronto on "The Alex Pierson Show"
Alex Pierson Show, Canadian Public Radio: Earlier this month, Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, appeared on The Alex Pierson Show on AM640 Toronto CFIQ to discuss the city’s disturbing rise in youth violence.  During the show, Voisin and…
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A commitment to CWRU: Longtime Case School of Engineering employees retire after 30+ years
When members of the ӰƵ community are asked what their favorite thing is about the university, there’s one nearly universal response: the people. For some, our campus serves as their professional home for significant portions of their lives—and their efforts are essential to…
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Summer Spotlight: Owen Myer
Major: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Expected Graduation: 2026 Who are you interning with? Product Evaluation Systems Explain the details of your internship.  I am working in a mechanical laboratory where we apply destructive testing to materials and gather mechanical results. I am also…
Summer Spotlight: Gwyn Lai
Major: Chemical Engineering Expected Graduation: 2025 Where is your research opportunity located or who is it in partnership with? Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois Explain the details of your research.  I am working in the target laboratory where I will be working with enriched…
Summer Spotlight: Kaia Kanj
Major: Computer Science Expected Graduation: 2025 Who are you interning with? Lincoln Electric Explain the details of your internship.  I am working with the IT department to create a standard for how company data will be stored in the future as well as cleaning their current data so that it…