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Fifth-year graduate student finds client-therapist relationship crucial in treatment in PTSD

Kushagra Gupta, Contributing Reporter December 8, 2013

Stephanie Keller, a fifth-year graduate student, was one of the researchers on a recent project studying how disruptions in the relationships between a therapist and a client can harm the client’s treatment....

Fourth-year student hopes to make career out of research

Kushagra Gupta, Staff Reporter November 22, 2013

Many students conduct research for reasons like boosting their resume or to exploring interests in certain fields. Senior researcher Morgan MacBeth, however, plans to take on this trade for life, hoping...

Fourth-year researcher leaves legacy of research with MRI, PTSD projects

Kushagra Gupta, Staff Reporter November 15, 2013

Senior researcher Srijita Sarkar is going to be graduating this school year, but she’s leaving a legacy of research here at Case Western Reserve University. The biochemistry and psychology double...

Senior Shruti Sudhakar is currently working on a project to lessen tissue damage caused by the implantation of electrodes into the brain.

Research looking to minimize damage caused by placing electrodes into brain

Kushagra Gupta, Contributing Reporter November 8, 2013

Humans are unique animals. Our brains control our bodies well, but one day, brains may be able to control machines just as effectively. Senior researcher Shruti Sudhakar has been working on a project with...

Researcher lectures about Netherland’s euthanasia policy, potential US implications

Kushagra Gupta, Staff Reporter November 4, 2013

Currently, doctors try to keep you alive no matter, but that may soon change. Dr. Gerrit Kimsma, a well-known medical practitioner from the Free University of Amsterdam lectured Monday on campus about...

Second-year’s project hopes to set international quality standards for photovoltaic connectors

Kushagra Gupta, Contributing Reporter October 24, 2013

While much of the research done on campus will make differences in the real world, one student is working on a project that could have international repercussions. Olga Eliseeva, a second year student,...

Third-year student takes lab into the ambulance

Third-year student takes lab into the ambulance

Kushagra Gupta, Contributing Reporter September 27, 2013

Junior Serena Doyle spent her past summer constantly inside an ambulance. Fortunately for Doyle, a nursing major, she did not have to be transported at high speeds due to injury; she was analyzing how...

Associate Professor of Physics Michael Martens works in his medical imaging physics lab. He is looking to develop cheaper MRI technology, primarily by designing a scanner that uses less liquid hydrogen, a costly substance) as a coolant.

Physicist to design new MRI scanner, nets $600,000 grant

Kushagra Gupta, Contributing Reporter September 20, 2013

When it comes to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, the average physicist usually has nothing to do with it — MRI technology is typically associated with those in the medical field. However,...

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Dermatology Professor Nicole Ward works in her lab. Ward holds a doctorate in neuroscience, but her research interests lie in vascular biology.

CWRU School of Medicine researcher earns third NIH grant to study psoriasis

Kushagra Gupta, Contributing Reporter September 13, 2013

Dr. Nicole Ward’s lab must be doing something right. Ward, a dermatology professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recently earned her third grant this year from the National...

Hillary Wheelock takes passion for arts to Europe

Hillary Wheelock takes passion for arts to Europe

Michael McKenna, Research and Innovations Reporter September 21, 2012

Often the thought of a person doing research involves an image of that person working in a lab or on a psychological study. Senior theatre major Hillary Wheelock’s SOURCE-funded summer research project...

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