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The Observer

Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

Case Western Reserve University's independent student news source

The Observer

Leaving lab research for the classroom

Lyndsey Cole, News Editor November 17, 2017

Professor Rekha Srinivasan, better known by her students as Dr. Sri, has been teaching at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) since 2005. She is the James Stephen Swinehart, Ph.D. Professional Teaching...

Why onions make us cry

Kevin Smith, Executive Editor November 2, 2017

Research from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has provided further insight into why onions make us cry. A group of researchers from CWRU and Cornell University studied its structure...

CWRU professors weigh in on Trump

Srivatsan Uchani, Staff Reporter February 10, 2017

Accompanying Donald Trump’s rise to power has been a surge in terms like “fascism” and “nazism” on social media by his critics. After one of the most polarizing and controversial presidential...

In a talk, Professor Harsh Mathur explained how to use the knot theory to discover 200,000 ways to tie a tie.

200,000 ways to tie a tie

Chris Nguyen, Staff Reporter September 23, 2016

The marriage of art and science is not a novel concept; yet whenever such a companionship arises, it never fails to amaze people how beauty can arise from intensive study. Harsh Mathur, a professor in...


Junior Paige Hughes was drawn to fair trade-focused research by an interest in social justice.

Student researches impacts of fairtrade bananas

Sruthi Meka, Staff Reporter September 17, 2015

Case Western Reserve University third-year student Paige Hughes has always liked bananas. In the InterReligious Task Force on Central America (IRTF) she found an organization that combined her passions...

A drug as a tool

A drug as a tool

Kushagra Gupta, Staff Reporter January 30, 2015

A traveler of the world, Dr. Youwei Zhang studied pharmacology in China, then Japan and finally the United States. As a child, he grew up in the countryside and was ripe with curiosity. He remembers that...

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