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“The Color of Water” wall mural newest addition to CWRU’s Putnam Collection
Part of Inter/Urban: Art & Culture Connector public art partnership Riders are on the rapid transit line zooming past Case Western Reserve University will see a new flash of color. People visiting, working or living in Little Italy may notice a drab wall on an industrial building by the tracks…
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Diversity leader search begins again
President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson announced today that ӰƵ has relaunched its search for the university’s next Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity. As the two wrote in a June email to faculty and staff, the 2018-19 search “drew many…
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CWRU-Microsoft partnership yields major gains, increased hope for patients
Announced little more than a year ago, ӰƵ’s second significant collaboration with Microsoft already is offering meaningful results. Today, the two organizations announced a breakthrough made possible by pooling their respective strengths: the university’s in medical imaging, and…
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Stay safe on campus: Download the university’s new, free safety app, Rave Guardian
Transition from CWRU Shield will provide users enhanced functionality, ease of use ӰƵ has launched a new mobile safety app, Rave Guardian. The award-winning app—created by Rave Mobile Safety, which the university already uses to send emergency alerts—replaces CWRU Shield and…
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ӰƵ ranked 17th in “Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2018”
ӰƵ is listed 17th—up from 43rd last year—in the “Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents in 2018” rankings compiled by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO). The rankings, which highlight the…
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ӰƵ/Cleveland Play House Master of Fine Arts ranked 12th in The Hollywood Reporter’s top 25 graduate acting programs internationally
For the second straight year, the ӰƵ/Cleveland Play House Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program made The Hollywood Reporter's list of top 25 graduate acting programs in the world, ranking 12th—up six slots from the previous year. The Hollywood Reporter, which bases its…
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Real-life saga of a smuggled (and for-sale) dinosaur skeleton chosen as 2019 CWRU common reading selection
Paige Williams, a staff writer at The New Yorker, will speak at Fall Convocation about The Dinosaur Artist, a true tale woven with human and legal drama, ethical questions and compromises, paleontology and science In a time where almost nothing escapes the assignment of monetary value, something…
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Check out the new issue of Think magazine
The 2019 spring/summer edition of ӰƵ's Think magazine is now available at numerous locations around campus, including in academic buildings and at the Tinkham Veale University Center. The online version is at case.edu/think. The magazine, published twice a year, offers…
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Take Two staff appreciation initiative to begin June 7
For the fifth straight summer, ӰƵ University staff once again can enjoy extra free time through Take Two, the university initiative that gives employees two hours off on Friday afternoons. The initiative will run for eight Fridays in June and July: June 7, 14, 21 and 28 and July…
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KeyCorp Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Beth Mooney gives advice to CWRU's Class of 2019 at commencement
When KeyCorp Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Beth Mooney graduated from the University of Texas in 1977, she found that earning a degree with highest academic honors did little to help her land a job. “I was Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude,” she told ӰƵ’s…