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People often assume that experiencing something horrific automatically leads to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In contrast, though, most people are actually resilient in the aftermath of trauma.  Understanding the principles that underlie such resilience is the focus of a new…

Scientists from ����APP and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior—in this case, the ability to reach through a narrow opening and grasp food—using a neural prosthesis in a rat model of brain injury. Ultimately, the team hopes to develop a device that…

When Joseph Tooman sat down for his regular oral exam at ����APP’s dental clinic, a student dentist began examining his teeth while a nursing student checked his vital signs. Beside Tooman sitting in the dental chair were third-year student dentist Oliver Sun and Master of…

Two teams of researchers, including scientists linked to ����APP, have announced the discovery of a new species of fossil horse from 4.4-million-year-old, fossil-rich deposits in Ethiopia. About the size of a small zebra, Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli—named for geologist…

Is that caffeine jolt worth the extra hours of studying or long workday? In the long run, no, according to Michael Decker, associate professor at ����APP’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and a national sleep expert, because of the effects of caffeine and the changes…

By relentlessly miniaturizing a pre-World War II computer technology and combining this with a new and durable material, researchers at ����APP have built nanoscale switches and logic gates that operate more energy-efficiently than those now used by the billions in…

A ����APP professor, two of his graduate students and a former postdoctoral researcher are among a group of scientists whose work was named by Physics World magazine today as one of the Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2013. Physics professor John Ruhl’s team helped design…

Just two years ago, custodian Steve Bailey received his first certificate of completion from Lynda.com—a website that offers free, online video-based tutorials on a range of technology subjects, taught by industry experts. Fast-forward to today: Bailey just completed his 722nd tutorial and is a…

Nearly a year after first-year student Alexandra “Ally” Piepho died suddenly of natural causes in her Illinois home, her parents have announced a scholarship for Case Western Reserve undergraduate students in her honor. “Ally was our daughter, our friend, our joy, our hope,” Wendy and Richard…

David E. Biegel, a faculty member at ����APP’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, has spent several decades researching the impact of chronic illnesses on families. His research, coupled with his community involvement, has earned him…