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As a second-grader in the suburbs of Chicago, David Ake wanted to show off the results of his classical piano lessons by playing a Mozart sonata as part of show-and-tell. Ake thought he’d performed the piece well, but the reception from his classmates was not what he had expected. “They made fun…

In his most recent bestseller, The Butler: A Witness to History, acclaimed Washington Post reporter Wil Haygood chronicled the compelling story of Eugene Allen’s incredible life, from growing up in the segregated South to serving as White House butler to eight presidents. The public is invited to…

Researchers at ����APP have received a $540,000 federal grant to devise methods for building minute structures tailored to precisely deliver medicines to tumors or carry dyes that help imaging technologies detect disease, create more efficient nanowires and nanoelectronics,…

Case Western Reserve Distinguished University Professor Paul C. Giannelli, recognized nationally for his extensive legal research in scientific evidence, was selected to serve on a newly created federal commission on forensic science. The new National Commission on Forensic Science, created…

To the Case Western Reserve Community: As a longtime law professor, I love the power of words. A well-crafted brief can illuminate ideas and arguments in ways that reshape perceptions, provoke positive actions and, quite literally, change the way we live. In recent days, though, I have come to…

Researchers at ����APP and University Hospitals Case Medical Center hope to improve treatment and survival rates of ischemic heart disease patients by providing doctors an unprecedented look at the stents they place in coronary arteries. The highly collaborative team…

At a young age, John Broich felt a compulsion to understand how things came to be. Well before his high school years, he remembers thinking that the fundamental questions about how people came to act and think weren’t being asked. Like any good researcher, he began searching for answers to these…

When inmates with severe mental illness are released from jail, their priority is finding shelter, food, money and clothes. Even needs as basic as soap and a place to bathe can be hard to come by for people leaving jail, according to a new study from ����APP’s social work…

Oxford University Press is publishing an updated edition of an award-winning how-to guide for making oral presentations. The primer, called SPEAK, was developed in 2008 for undergraduate students in ����APP’s Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship (SAGES)…

Although too young to gamble, student innovators from ����APP hope to “hit the jackpot” by drawing interest for their inventions from investors and companies at the Consumer Electronics Association’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which started yesterday and…