The Observer

Blackboard Learn updated, boasts several new features

Tanvi Parmar, Special Assignments Reporter • August 23, 2013

Curious Case Western Reserve University students may have noticed that the days of the Blackboard Learn course management tool being drab are over. The Website was updated Aug. 17 by CWRU Information Technology...

Fundraising campaign breaks university single day donation record

Mike McKenna, News Editor • August 23, 2013

On July 18, Case Western Reserve University officials set the goal of netting a school-record 618 donations in 24 hours. That goal was bested after 795 donors contributed $195,745 in that day. The All...

Case Cancer Center gets five year grant renewed, but notes reduced funding due to federal budget cuts

Tanvi Parmar, Special Assignments Reporter • August 23, 2013

In June, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC), a partnership begun by Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals in 1987, and...

CWRU researchers start program to help young girls overcome social anxiety

Victoria Robinson, Student Affairs Reporter • June 8, 2013

While they still may be years away from attending college, this summer, CWRU researchers are hoping to support an age demographic not often seen on campus: middle school girls. Nicole Pucci, a Ph.D...

Thwing Study Over Draws Hundreds

Julia Bianco • May 1, 2013

This past Tuesday, Thwing Study Over drew hundreds of CWRU students for a light-hearted night before delving into finals week. Main features of the event included a t-shirt giveaway from the University...

Vice president for student affairs to step down at year’s end

Tyler Hoffman, Executive Editor • April 27, 2013

Glenn Nicholls reflects on a quarter century of service at CWRU When Glenn Nicholls, vice president for student affairs, first arrived at Case Western Reserve University, the campus was a different...

Peter B. Lewis Shooting, 10 years later

Mike McKenna, News Editor • April 26, 2013

On May 9, 2003, department chair of information systems Frank Collopy was trapped in his office. That day it wasn’t due to mountains of work. Gunshots were echoing through the Peter B. Lewis building. A...

Lessons learned: PBL shooting prompted drastic shifts in campus security policy

Sheehan Hannan, Director of Print • April 26, 2013

Soon, the Case Western Reserve University community will be marking a somber anniversary, that of one of the earliest instances of on-campus gun violence in the United States. On May 9, 2003 Biswanath...

Blackstone LaunchPad: like ThinkBox and beyond

Alexis Parisi, Senior News Reporter • April 26, 2013

Case Western Reserve University may not have the warmth of Florida, but it’s got something else from the sunshine state: a Blackstone LaunchPad program. Originally launched at the University of Miami...

A conversation with outgoing USG president James Hale

Jenna Millemaci, Senior News Reporter • April 26, 2013

James Hale wants to know about you. With the USG inauguration on April 30, the nostalgic senior, nearing the end of his term as the 2012-2013 USG president, is still asking, “If there is one thing that...

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