Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland is the largest private research university in Ohio. It operates many research centers and laboratories.
The university’s campus lies east of downtown Cleveland in an area called University Circle, a center of cultural and intellectual life. Other institutions in University Circle include the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall.
Case Western Reserve University was formed in 1967 when Case Institute of Technology merged with Western Reserve University. Western Reserve had been founded as Western Reserve College in Hudson, Ohio, in 1826. The college took its name from that region of northeastern Ohio, known during the 1780’s as the Western Reserve of Connecticut (see Western Reserve). The college moved to Cleveland in 1882 and changed its name to Western Reserve University that same year.
Leonard Case, an American lawyer, had founded the Case School of Applied Sciences in Cleveland in 1880. In 1882, the school moved to the University Circle area, next to Western Reserve. It changed its name to Case Institute of Technology in 1947.
Graduates of Case Western Reserve University include many Nobel Prize winners, such as chemist Paul Berg, physicists Donald A. Glaser and Polycarp Kusch, and medical researchers Alfred Gilman and Ferid Murad. Another alumnus is James T. Lynn, former United States secretary of housing and urban development.
The university’s website at https://case.edu/ offers additional information.
