Case Western Reserve University
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| President | Edward M. Hundert, M.D. |
|---|---|
| School type | Private university |
| Religious affiliation | None |
| Established | 1967 WRC:1826 CIT:1880 |
| Location | Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Enrollment | 3,516 undergraduate 5,579 graduate |
| Faculty | 2,030 full-time |
| Endowment | $1.47bn (March 2004) [1] |
| Campus surroundings | Urban |
| Campus size | 155 acres [2] |
| Sports teams | 19 Division III varsity athletic teams [3] |
| Mascot | Spartan |
| Homepage | www.case.edu |
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It was formed in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1880 by philanthropist Leonard Case Jr.) and Western Reserve University (founded in 1826 in the area that was once the Connecticut Western Reserve).
Case is the largest independent research university in the state of Ohio. The University offers programs of study in Arts and Sciences, Dental Medicine, Engineering, Law, Management, Medicine, Nursing, and Social Sciences. According to US News and World Report 2006 rankings, Case's undergraduate program is ranked #1 in Ohio and #37 among national universities. Case was ranked #37 in the 2002 and 2003 US News rankings, and was ranked #35 in 2004 and 2005. It is most highly regarded for its medical school (currently ranked #15 and #20 for primary care and research, respectively, in US News rankings) and engineering, particularly biomedical, which consistently ranks in the top 5 among undergraduate biomedical engineering programs.
The university receives the 12th largest amount of federal research funding among private universities and spends nearly $1 million a day on research.
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Campus
The university is approximately five miles (8 km) east of downtown Cleveland in University Circle, a 550 acre (2.2 km²) area containing numerous educational, medical, and cultural institutions. Case has a number of programs taught in conjunction with nearby institutions, including the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and the Cleveland Play House. Image:Case western reserve campus 2005.jpg
For transportation, in addition to the Cleveland RTA, which is made available to students for unlimited use through a mandatory $25 yearly fee via semesterly-issued passes, Case has its own fleet of shuttle buses which are better known as "greenies."
Case does not own its parking lots, requiring students, faculty, and staff to purchase permits from University Circle Incorporated. The rates vary between approximately $30 and $80 per month, with multi-year waiting lists on the most popular lots.
Organization
The university in its present form consists of 8 schools:
- College of Arts and Sciences
- School of Dental Medicine
- Case School of Engineering
- School of Law
- Weatherhead School of Management
- School of Medicine
- Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
- Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Students
As of 2004, the university had 3,516 undergraduates and 5,579 graduate and professional students.
Student life
Image:Snowstorm.jpg As of fall 2005, upperclassmen are free to live in new "apartment-style" dormitories that come with air conditioning, full kitchen area, and full sized beds. Case requires freshmen and sophomores to live in the dormitories unless living with a relative within fifty miles of the university. Meal plan participation is also mandatory for freshmen and sophomores with some exceptions made for religious and medical reasons. New housing for underclassmen, along with a "Greek village" bringing all the college's fraternities and sororities together with the other undergraduates, is slated to be constructed within the next ten years.
The dormitories are divided into two areas, one featuring suite-style rooms for upperclassmen (new as of fall 2005) and the other featuring shared-style rooms. Both feature gigabit ethernet network access, and a wireless campus network is also available anywhere on campus. Buildings are organized into "colleges", grouping together students of similar ages and creating a sense of ownership and hall pride.
Residence life at Case has a long history of being liberal in its policies, including allowing coed suites (an option offered to upperclassmen, when requested and agreed upon by all occupants of a suite), and a generous guest policy.
Graduate students are not offered housing.
First Year Experience
First Year students are grouped into one of four Residential Colleges that is overseen by a First Year Coordinator (FYC). The four residential colleges are made up of several buildings. Mistletoe, Juniper, and Magnolia residential colleges have been in existence for as long as the First Year Experience system has been in place, with the fourth residential college, Cedar, created in the fall of 2005 due to a large influx of new students that represent great growth within the university community. The residential colleges plan events together and are run by college councils that take student input and use it to create exciting social and community service-oriented activities.
Greek system
Nearly a third of the campus undergraduates are in a fraternity or sorority. There are 6 sororities and 16 fraternities.
Fraternities
- Alpha Epsilon Pi
- Beta Theta Pi
- Delta Kappa Epsilon
- Delta Tau Delta
- Delta Upsilon
- Lambda Chi Alpha
- Phi Delta Theta
- Phi Kappa Psi
- Phi Kappa Tau
- Phi Kappa Theta
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon
- Sigma Chi
- Sigma Nu
- Sigma Phi Epsilon
- Theta Chi
- Zeta Beta Tau
- Zeta Psi
Sororities
Note: Some sororities may officially be referred to as fraternities due to the history of the group.
Events
On October 5 2004, Case hosted the Vice Presidential debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards.
Nearby Severance Hall was also featured in the 1997 Harrison Ford film, Air Force One. The scene during the opening credits shows a night-time military raid on the presidential palace of the leader of Kazakhstan. Severance Hall was chosen to depict the palace. During the scene, several landmarks of Case Western Reserve University are visible, including the Thwing Center (the student union) and the Dittrick Medical History Center.
Sports, clubs, and traditions
Varsity athletics
Case Western Reserve is a member of the University Athletic Association, which participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division III.
Traditions
Hudson Relays is an annual tradition at Case that occurs the last weekend before finals every spring semester. It entails a race between the classes of approximately 26 miles all around campus and the surrounding community. Legend has it that the first class to win the race all 4 years will be rewarded with a champagne and steak dinner with the President of the university. The class of 2006 has been one of the few in University history to win the race three years. It is yet to be seen whether they will win again in 2006 and learn the truth of the dinner.
Springfest is a day-long concert and student group festival which occurs later the same day of Hudson Relays. The University Program Board brings in several bands and a beer garden, student groups set up booths to entertain the student body, and various inflatable carnival-style attractions are brought in to add to the theoretically festive atmosphere. Occasionally, due to Cleveland weather conditions (such as those at Springfest 2005), the festival must be moved indoors, usually to Thwing Center or Adelbert Gym.
Halloween at the Farm is a tradition established in the fall of 2002. Halloween at the Farm takes place at the Squire Valleevue Farm in Hunting, Ohio. Students, their families, and faculty are invited to enjoy games, a bon-fire, an open air concert, and hay rides.
Since 1976, the Film Society of Case Western Reserve University has held the Science Fiction Film Marathon. The film fesitval has a very large crowd that enjoys food and 36 hours of non-stop movies including modern, classic, and surprise science fiction films.
Facts and figures
- Undergraduate Tuition (2005-2006): $31,090
- Undergraduate Classes with <30 Students: 74%
- Undergraduate Classes with <20 Students: 56%
- Nobel Laureates Among Alumni, Faculty, and Researchers: 16
- Full Time Faculty with Ph.D or equivalent: 95%
2005-2006 incoming class statistics
- Applications Received: 7173
- Admitted: 4884
- SAT I (25-75 percentile)
- Verbal: 600-700
- Math: 640-740
- Composite: 1280-1430
- ACT (25-75 percentile)
- 26-32
- 63% in Top 10% of HS Class
- 22% in 2nd 10% of HS Class
Top 10 states for undergraduates
Diversity
- Caucasian: 59%
- Asian/Pacific Islander: 19%
- African American: 4%
- Hispanic/Latino: 3%
- Native American: <1%
- Other: 3%
- Male: 60%
- Female: 40%
Intended academic interests
- Arts and Sciences: 27%
- Engineering: 39%
- Management: 6%
- Nursing: 5%
- Undecided: 23%
Notable students, alumni and faculty
Research
Following is a partial list of major contributions made by faculty, staff, and students at Case:
- Case was the site of the famous Michelson-Morley interferometer experiment, conducted in 1887 by A. A. Michelson of Case Institute of Technology and E. W. Morley of Western Reserve University. This experiment proved the non-existence of ether and gave circumstantial evidence to substantiate Einstein's Theory of Relativity (Profs. Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley, 1887).
- Discovered the atomic weight of oxygen, the basis for calculating the weights of all other elements (Prof. Morley, 1895).
- Performed the first full X-ray of the human body -- on himself (Prof. Dayton C. Miller, 1896).
- Performed the first modern blood transfusion using a coupling device to connect blood vessels (Dr. George W. Crile, 1905).
- Pioneered chlorination of drinking water to eradicate the source of typhoid bacilli (Dr. Roger G. Perkins, 1912).
- Developed simulated milk formula for infants (Dr. Henry J. Gerstenberger,1915).
- Pioneered surgical treatment of coronary artery disease (Dr. Claude S. Beck, 1935).
- Pioneered the materials science of polymers with the creation of first comprehensive polymer science and engineering department at a major U.S. university (Dr. Eric Baer, 1967).
- Developed the first heart-lung machine to be used during open heart surgery (Dr. Frederick S. Cross, 1950s).
- Performed the first successful lifesaving defibrillation of the human heart (Dr. Beck, 1947) and developed the method of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) (Dr. Beck, 1952).
- Developed a test for infants to identify mental retardation within a year after birth (Prof. Joseph F. Fagan, 1987).
- Created the first artificial human chromosomes, opening the door to more detailed study of human genetics and potentially offering a new approach to gene therapy. (Prof. Huntington F. Willard of the School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland, in collaboration with colleagues at Athersys, Inc., 1997).
Music
WRUW 91.1 FM is the campus radio station of Case Western Reserve University. Its motto, "More Music, Fewer Hits", can be seen adorning the rear bumpers of many vehicles in the area. WRUW broadcasts at a power of 15,000 watts and covers most of Northeast Ohio 24-hours a day, 365 days a year.
WRUW is staffed by Case students and community volunteers. The station's format can be classified as non-commercial "variety". For information on what is currently on the station, please visit their website at www.WRUW.org.
Computing
Case had the first ABET accredited program in computer engineering [4].
In 1968, the university formed an innovative private company, Chi Corporation, to provide computer time to both it and other customers [5].
Case was also one of the earliest universities to be connected to the ARPANET, predecessor to the Internet. ARPANET went online in 1969; Case was connected in January, 1971 [6].
Case pioneered the early Free-Net computer systems, creating the first Free-net, The Cleveland Free-Net, as well as writing the software that drove a majority of those systems, known as FreePort. The Cleveland Free-Net was shut down in late 1999 due to its software containing the millennium bug.
It was the first university to have an all-fiber-optic network, in 1989 [7] [8]. CWRUnet timeline
At the inaugural meeting in October, 1996, Case was one of the thirty-four charter university members of Internet2 [9].
The university was #1 in Yahoo Internet Life's 1999 Most Wired College list [10]. There was a perception that this award was obtained through partially false or inaccurate information submitted for the survey, and the university did not appear at all on the 2000 Most Wired College list (which included 100 institutions); the numbers reported were much lower than those which had been submitted by Ray Neff in 1999. [11] [12] [13] [14] Template:Citation needed The university had previously placed #13 in the 1997 poll [15].
In August, 2003, Case joined the Internet Streaming Media Alliance, then one of only two university members [16].
In September, 2003, Case opened 1,230 public wireless access points on the Case campus and University Circle [17].
Case was one of the founding members of OneCleveland [18], formed in October, 2003. [19]. OneCleveland is an "ultra broadband" (gigabit speed) fiber optic network. This network is for the use of organizations in education, research, government, healthcare, arts, culture, and the nonprofit sector in Greater Cleveland [20].
External links
- Case Western Reserve University
- Case Alumni Association
- Notable Alumni
- Radio Station - WRUW-FM
- Case Wiki
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