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Noticed some new faces on campus lately? Say hello to the Class of 2015. Nearly 600 incoming first-year students, plus their parents, have been on campus this past week for the two Orientation Summer Sessions scheduled in July. (The rest of the new class will attend their Summer Session in August.) ...

By Vanessa Mavec President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that her office will once again fund the two child care assistance programs launched in 2009: temporary and back-up child care and travel support. These two initiatives grew out of the work of the President’s Committee on Child Care Optio...

Some people believe in ghosts; others join cults as they await Armageddon. Many more turn to psychics or reply to emails heralding their million-dollar international lottery winnings. Even self-proclaimed skeptics can find unlikely possibilities so compelling that they believe, said Case Western Re...

A stem cell that can morph into a number of different tissues is proving a natural protector, healer and antibiotic maker, researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ and their peers have found. Mesenchymal stem cells reaped from bone marrow had been hailed as the key to growing new organs to re...

Looking for a little insight into the ins and outs of ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ? Interested in a professional development opportunity? Simply want to connect with others across campus? You’re not alone. To meet this need, a steering committee is developing the university’s first mentoring prog...

Jared Bendis knows his way around computers. And as the creative director of new media at the Freedman Center, he wants you to feel just as comfortable with them as he does. That’s why he leads free multimedia workshops as part of CaseLearns, which are open to faculty, staff, students and alumni. F...

ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ School of Medicine has received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestives and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) to study intestinal inflammation. The five-year grant from the institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH),...

After leading the Case School of Engineering since 2007, Dean Norman C. Tien has decided to step down from his post at the end of his current term, effective Dec. 31, 2011. The Nord Professor of Engineering and an Ohio Eminent Scholar in Physics, Tien will return to the Department of Electrical Engi...

Talking about religion can seem taboo, especially among people from different religious backgrounds. But a committee from ÐÓ°ÉÊÓƵ wants to get people talking—and serving the community—through the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge. Last week the co...

Could a multimillion-dollar prize spur the next big innovation in sustainable climate technology? School of Law professor Jonathan H. Adler thinks so. He recommends that some of the dollars earmarked for alternative energy research be shifted to prizes. Adler believes a clear need exists for new t...