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A guide to current campus construction

Julia Bianco, Staff Reporter January 31, 2014

New Medical Education Building A joint venture between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic, the new medical education center will be located on the Clinic’s campus on East 93rd...

Congresswoman to speak at this year’s Louis Stokes Symposium

Gabrielle Buffington, Staff Reporter January 31, 2014

The Louis Stokes Symposium will have a fitting speaker this year. Marcia L. Fudge’s work parallels that of the man who the event honors. The famed Stokes dedicated a third of his life to representing...

Inside the Circle

Anastazia Vanisko, Staff Reporter January 31, 2014

Grocery delivery system growing Presto Fresh groceries came to Cleveland in late November of 2013, after Steve deMoulpied and his family moved to the Cleveland area. After using something similar when...

Where there’s smoke…

Smoking tobacco is a centuries’ old custom that has come under increasing regulation in many countries over the years due to a steady flow of research revealing the negative health effects of this habit....

CWRU Police Blotter 1/21/14 to 1/28/14

January 31, 2014

Jan. 22: Petty theft—Laptop computer taken, School of Medicine Jan. 22: Petty theft—Chairs taken from outside dining area, Mitchell’s Ice Cream, Uptown On the Beat can be contacted at policecolumn@case.edu.

Fourth-year applied mathematics and biochemistry double major Ali Azeem

Student researcher examines chaperone protein using NMR, mathematical software

Kushagra Gupta, Staff Reporter January 24, 2014

Most people think that biological research must involve using instruments such as microscopes and test tubes, but one student researcher is using mathematical computations to study biology. Ali Azeem,...

Baker-Nord Center studies how capitalism shakes society in this spring’s free speaker series

Gabrielle Buffington, Staff Reporter January 24, 2014

Students attending Case Western Reserve University have seen an obvious rise in tuition and fees in the past year. There are some who have received scholarships, grants and other forms of individual funding,...

University Circle looks to strengthen alternative transportation routes with Cleveland Heights

Anastazia Vanisko, Staff Reporter January 23, 2014

With at least 3,300 people traveling from Cleveland Heights to their jobs in University Circle every day, University Circle Inc. and the city of Cleveland Heights are taking a look at strengthening bike...

A sign from the sky? Lightning strikes iconic Rio de Janeiro monument

Mark Patteson, Staff Reporter January 23, 2014

Last Thursday, lightning struck and broke the right thumb of Christ the Redeemer, the iconic statue that stands over and embraces Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. However, this was not likely a strike of divine...

Winter Blues

Sergeant Jeffrey Daberko, Officer Mark Chavis January 23, 2014

So let’s review. It’s January at Case Western Reserve University which means it is cold outside (like Nanook of the North cold), the sky is the same battleship grey it has been since November, and...

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