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In the Spotlight

September 29, 2020

What to expect as the first presidential debate of 2020 takes place at the Health Education Campus In late July of this year, Case Weste...

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An experienced host

September 28, 2020

As preparations continue for the first presidential debate of the 2020 campaign, we look back on CWRU’s time in the national spotlight host...

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Gifts

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President Snyder’s leadership honored with $27 million toward student scholarships

September 23, 2020

While the pandemic prevented Case Western Reserve’s supporters from giving President Barbara R. Snyder the kind of campus-wide sendoff her ...

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Ann Brennan makes $2.5 million gift to support law students in honor of late husband, alumnus David L. Brennan

September 18, 2020

Ann and David Brennan (in front) with their children (left to right) Nancy, Beth, Jay and Kathleen Just days after revealing the first g...

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Media Mentions

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Medicine’s Rong Xu discusses research into how addiction could lead to increased susceptibility in getting COVID-19

September 28, 2020

Addicted hit harder by COVID-19, nationwide study shows; doctors urged to make 'action plans' Cincinnati Enquirer: Rong Xu, a professor ...

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Law’s Jonathan Adler discusses what could happen if Supreme Court seat isn’t filled before election day

September 28, 2020

What happens next if President Trump refuses to concede? Vice News: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, noted t...

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Awards

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Case Western Reserve University receives INSIGHT Into Diversity 2020 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for ninth straight year

September 15, 2020

Case Western Reserve University has again received the national Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Div...

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Book by political sciences’ Karen Beckwith selected as one of 2020’s Best Books by American Political Science Association

September 11, 2020

The latest book by Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor of Political Science, titled Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender was honore...

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Publications & Presentations

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Faculty members Kelly McMann, Daniel Tisch present on research into effectiveness of democracies in responding to epidemics

September 25, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront the question of whether democracies are more or less effective than autocracies in respo...

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Siegal Lifelong Learning Program’s Brian Amkraut writes about impact of COVID-19 on Jewish life and worship practices

September 25, 2020

Brian Amkraut, executive director of the Siegal Lifelong Learning Program, wrote an article titled “COVID-19 and the 5781 High Holidays...

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Appointments

Postdoctoral fellow Craig Lanier Allen receives ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship

September 28, 2020

Craig Lanier Allen, the postdoctoral fellow in African American history in the Department of History, has received an inaugural Emergin...

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Honoring his seminal research in acid-base balance and pH regulation, Walter Boron is named Distinguished University Professor

August 25, 2020

Like many scientists before him, Walter Boron’s medical discoveries are founded in basic scientific research, figuring out how things work....

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Op-Ed

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Medicine’s Stephen R. Sroka suggests writing to loved ones amid pandemic

August 14, 2020

The New York Times published a letter to the editor by Stephen R. Sroka, adjunct assistant professor of medicine and president of Health Ed...

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Medicine’s Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew pens piece about inequities highlighted by recent events

August 14, 2020

In a piece published on cleveland.com, Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, the director and Edgar B. Jackson Jr. Endowed Chair in Clinical Excellen...

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