Campus News

August 21, 2003

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University unveils new brand identity
It can be spotted along the streets of University Circle, and soon it will be popping up on letterhead, laptops and landmarks—the new look of the world's most powerful learning environment—a brand identity that includes a new logo, updated color palette and fresh design standards.

Hundert tells freshmen they are in right place at right time
Case Western Reserve University President Edward M. Hundert thanked the nearly 900 new undergraduates for showing "boldness" in choosing Case, a University striving to become the most powerful learning environment in the world.

Skills learned from Case to serve Wagner well at Emory
James W. Wagner has been heralded by many—including Emory University, which named him their new president—for numerous accomplishments during his interim leadership at Case Western Reserve University, but he said his role was minimal.

School of Medicine

In Memoriam: Robbins was connected with Case for 50 years
Frederick C. Robbins, who shared a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine and was associated with the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine for more than 50 years, died August 4.

Medicine In Brief

Case School of Engineering

Gifted and talented
A student in the Equinox Summer Program honors course in engineering concepts and design uses a drill press in a Case Western Reserve University laboratory. These are a few of the 61 students from across the country who came to Case to be part of the first class of the Equinox program for gifted students.

College of Arts and Sciences

Koonce's model for preserving lakes may set national standard
A Case Western Reserve University biologist is designing an innovative, new environmental model for preserving the Great Lakes—one that looks at land as well as water.

Case to SPUR undergraduate research

Victory Over Violence program uses art as weapon to fight domestic violence
Three Case Western Reserve University anthropologists are joining forces with a Cleveland elementary school-and using art as a weapon-to help wage war against domestic violence.

Arts and Sciences In Brief

Weatherhead School of Management

Management In Brief

Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing

Bolton school conducts first-ever flight nurse camp
Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in partnership with Cleveland's MetroHealth Medical Center conduct the nation's first-ever "summer camp" for training flight nurses and emergency service personnel in terrorism and emergency response.

School of Law

Mehlman: Medical malpractice crisis result of unfair system
The country's current medical malpractice crisis is the result of an unfair system, and reforms being discussed in Congress and state legislatures are not likely to make malpractice laws more just, according to a Case Western Reserve University law professor.

Law In Brief

School of Dentistry

Interdisciplinary effort to help stop smoking
Case Western Reserve University's dental, medical and nursing schools—in one of the first collaborative efforts among the three—are teaming up with Cleveland municipal school students to help stamp out smoking.

Survey compares oral health concerns for students, elderly

Trying it on for size
Rachel Meyer, one of the dental school's new incoming students, tries on her new white coat during the dental school's annual white coat ceremony.