Case Western Reserve University
About Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was federated in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 by the Presbyterian Church, and the Case Institute of Technology, founded in 1880. Case Western Reserve University comprises eight schools that offer more than 100 undergraduate programs and about 160 graduate and professional options across fields in STEM, medicine, arts, and the humanities. In 2024, the university enrolled 12,475 students from all 50 states and 106 countries and employed more than 1,182 full-time faculty members. The university's athletic teams, Case Western Reserve Spartans, play in NCAA Division III as a founding member of the University Athletic Association.
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Case Western Reserve University is home of the famous physics study, the Michelson-Morley experiment, which disproved that the ether existed. The theory was that the Earth was going through some kind of air or some kind of field, but actually it turned out that it's going through space and these guys proved it.
from Little Fish: You've Been Harkin'd, 2025-11-16 at 00:18:08 · read transcript
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