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2022 in review:
Case Western Reserve University in the media

From a memorable midterm election to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and medical breakthroughs to the war in Ukraine, the expertise and insight of Case Western Reserve University’s faculty and staff were at the forefront of the stories making headlines nationally and internationally this year.

In what has become commonplace, our faculty members are often a journalist’s first call when trying to make sense of a news story. Perhaps more substantial, CWRU researchers’ important work often creates the headlines.

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Look back at some of the highlights of Case Western Reserve in the media—keep in mind this is just a fraction of the media mentions—from 2022.

Winter

Photo of Dexter Voisin“In societies where there are more robust gun control laws—particularly in terms of a waiting period and limiting military-style firearms—there are lower rates of homicides.”

Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, to Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Spring

Photo of Case Western Reserve University School of Law Professor Jessie Hill“We really started to see an uptick in abortion restrictions after 2010, or 2011, the last time the redistricting took effect in Ohio. It’s been since then, just sort of increasingly extreme restrictions.”

Jessie Hill, the Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, to The Guardian

Summer

Photo of Anat Alon-Beck“I think that Twitter has the upper hand here, according to Delaware case law.”

Anat Alon-Beck, assistant professor of law, to The Guardian about Elon Musk and Twitter

Fall

“We know that covid can affect the brain, but I don’t think anyone had looked at new diagnoses of Alzheimer’s.”

Pamela Davis, the Arline H. and Curtis F. Garvin Research Professor, whose work with Rong Xu, professor of biomedical informatics at the School of Medicine, was featured in The Washington Post

This article was originally published Dec. 19, 2022.