Cigarillos use to smoke marijuana leads to tobacco exposure
Daria Ryabogin, Copy Editor
December 7, 2017
The issue of smoking on college campuses has seen much debate. According to the activist group Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, 1,137 college campuses in the United States are currently tobacco-free. However, a cultural shift has occurred tobacco use to marijuana use, and several researchers at ...
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 Fellow in Chemistry and a senior instructor in the department. Her research focuses on the ways...
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 and figured out how it works to cause tears in their new study published in the ACS Chemical Biolog...
Fourth-year student investigates relationship between nutrition and vocal health
Maeve Salm, Staff Reporter
October 6, 2017
Sarah Perlin, a fourth-year music and nutrition major, recently began brainstorming ideas for her capstone project. To accommodate her broad academic interests, she decided on exploring the relationship between nutrition, or wellness, and vocal health. Currently, Perlin is completing her literary rese...
Engineering professor receives award for ALD research
Maeve Salm, Staff Reporter
September 22, 2017
Dr. Chris Yingchun Yuan, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Case Western Reserve University, recently received the first place award in the Reusable Abstractions of Manufacturing Processes competition facilitated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, th...
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 elections in recent memory, many people who had hoped for a respite from political bickering with t...
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 the Department of Physics for 20 years, brings together these two fields in an interdisciplinary union. ...
Student working on cancer biology uses cellular pathways to study tumor suppression
Sruthi Meka, Staff Reporter
April 22, 2016
According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death for men in America. In the laboratory run by Robert Silverman in the Department of Cancer Biology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research I...
Student researches impacts of fairtrade bananas
Sruthi Meka, Staff Reporter
September 18, 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 for bananas and social justice. The mission of IRTF, a Cleveland-based non-profit organization t...
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 exploring the world was one of his favorite pastimes. It taught him how to confront a new environment...
