Case Western Reserve University

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The Case Western Reserve University (also called CWRU ) is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio. At the University 2011 9.963 students were enrolled. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities.

History

The Case Western Reserve University was created in 1967 from a composite of the company founded in 1880 Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University, founded in 1826.

Faculties

  • Case School of Engineering ( Faculty of Engineering )
  • College of Arts and Sciences ( Faculty of Arts )
  • Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (Faculty of Nursing )
  • Mandel School of Applied Social Science (Faculty of Social Work )
  • School of Dental Medicine ( Faculty of Dentistry )
  • School of Graduate Studies ( Graduate School )
  • School of Law ( Faculty of Law )
  • School of Medicine (Faculty of Medicine )

Students

The data written in the year 2011 9.963 students came from 93 countries and all 50 U.S. states. Approximately 42.5% of the undergraduate students came from Ohio. 56 % of the students were male and 44 % female.

Sports

The sports teams of the Case Western Reserve University are the Spartans. The university is a member of the University Athletic Association and the Presidents' Athletic Conference.

Attractions on Campus

The campus of Case Western Reserve University, about 8 km east of downtown Cleveland area, is an important cultural center of the city. In addition to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History here have the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the local history museum and archive of the Western Reserve Historical Society, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Playhouse Theatre relocating

More

On 5 October 2004, the debate between the two vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney and John Edwards was held at Case Western Reserve University.

Famous people

Arts, Journalism and Entertainment

Government and Military

  • Dennis Kucinich - Congressman and former mayor of Cleveland
  • Alfredo Palacio - Interim President of Ecuador
  • Mike Turner - congressman and former mayor of Dayton

Science / technology medicine

  • Peter C. Agre - Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2003
  • Paul Berg - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980
  • Alfred Goodman Gilman - Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1994
  • Benjamin Goodrich - Industrial
  • Corneille J. F. Heymans - Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology in 1938
  • George Herbert Hitchings - Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology in 1988
  • Donald Ervin Knuth - Computer
  • Polycarp Kusch - Nobel Prize in Physics 1955
  • Paul Christian Lauterbur - Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology in 2003
  • John J. R. Macleod - Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology in 1923
  • Albert A. Michelson - Nobel Prize in Physics 1907
  • Edward Williams Morley - scientists
  • Ferid Murad - Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology in 1998
  • George A. Olah - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994
  • Edward C. Prescott - 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics
  • Frederick Reines - Nobel Prize in Physics 1995
  • Frederick Chapman Robbins - Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology in 1954

Economy

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