Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University ( also known as Case Western Reserve , Case Western , Case , Reserve , and CWRU ) is a private research university in Cleveland , Ohio , USA . The university was created in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology ( founded in 1881 by Leonard Case Jr . ) and Western Reserve University ( founded in 1826 in the area that was once the Connecticut Western Reserve ) . " TIME " magazine described the merger as the creation of " Cleveland ' s Big - Leaguer " university . In " U . S . News & World Report ' s " 2013 rankings , Case Western Reserve ' s undergraduate program ranked 37th among national universities . The University is associated with 16 Nobel Laureates . Other notable alumni include Paul Buchheit , creator and lead developer of Gmail ; Craig Newmark , founder of craigslist . org ; and Peter Tippett , who developed the first anti - virus software , Vaccine , which Symantec purchased and turned into the popular Norton AntiVirus . Case Western Reserve is particularly well known for its medical school , dental school , law school , Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing , Department of Biomedical Engineering and its biomedical teaching and research capabilities . Case Western is a member of the Association of American Universities . The university is approximately five miles ( 8 km ) east of downtown Cleveland in University Circle . It is contained within a 550 - acre ( 220 ha ) area containing numerous educational , medical , and cultural institutions . Case Western Reserve has a number of programs taught in conjunction with nearby institutions , including the Cleveland Clinic , the University Hospitals of Cleveland , the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veteran ' s Affairs Medical Center , Cleveland Institute of Music , the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center , the Cleveland Museum of Art , the Cleveland Museum of Natural History , and the Cleveland Play House . Case Western Reserve was the site of the famous Michelson - Morley interferometer experiment , conducted in 1887 by A . A . Michelson of Case School of Applied Science and E . W . Morley of Western Reserve University . This experiment proved the non - existence of the luminiferous ether and was later cited as convincing evidence in support of special relativity as proposed by Albert Einstein in 1905 . Michelson became the first American to win a Nobel Prize in science . The commemorative Michelson - Morley Memorial Fountain is located on campus , near where the actual experiment was performed . History . Case Western Reserve University was created in 1967 , when Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology ( formerly Case School of Applied Science ) , institutions that had been neighbors for 81 years , formally federated . Western Reserve University . Western Reserve College was founded in 1826 in Hudson , Ohio , which , at the time , was the region ' s most populated area and named for the Connecticut Western Reserve , out of which the area arose . The nearby city of Cleveland , located about to its northwest , had only begun to grow . Western Reserve College , or " Reserve " as it was popularly called , was the first college in northern Ohio . By 1875 , a number of other schools had been established nearby , and Cleveland had emerged as clearly the dominant population and business center of the region . In 1882 , with funding from Amasa Stone , Western Reserve College moved to Cleveland and changed its name to Western Reserve University . Case Institute of Technology . In 1877 , Leonard Case Jr . began laying the groundwork for the Case School of Applied Science by secretly donating valuable pieces of Cleveland real estate to a trust . He asked his confidential advisor , Henry Gilbert Abbey , to administer the trust and to keep it secret until after his death . The Case School of Applied Science was issued a charter by the state of Ohio in 1882 - — just four short months after Case ' s death . For the first four years of the school ' s existence , it was located in the Case family ' s home on Rockwell Street in downtown Cleveland . Classes were held in the family house , while the chemistry and physics laboratories were on the second floor of the barn . Amasa Stone ' s gift to relocate Western Reserve College to Cleveland also included a provision for the purchase of land in the University Circle area , adjacent to Western Reserve University , for the Case School of Applied Science . The school moved to University Circle in 1885 . During World War II , Case Institute of Applied Science was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V - 12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission . Over time , the Case School of Applied Science grew to encompass a broader vision , adopting the name Case Institute of Technology in 1947 to reflect the institution ' s growing stature . Creating a federation . Although the trustees of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University did not formally federate their institutions until 1967 , the union had been seen by many as inevitable for decades before that . The institutions already shared buildings and staff when necessary and worked together often . One such example was seen in 1887 , when Case physicist Albert Michelson and Reserve chemist Edward Morley collaborated on the famous Michelson – Morley experiment . There had been some discussion of a merger of the two institutions as early as 1890 , but those talks dissolved quickly . In the 1920s , the Survey Commission on Higher Education in Cleveland took a strong stand in favor of federation and the community was behind the idea as well , but in the end all that came of the study was a decision by the two institutions to cooperate in founding Cleveland College , a special unit for part - time and adult students in downtown Cleveland . By the 1960s , Reserve President John Schoff Millis and Case President T . Keith Glennan shared the idea that federation would create a complete university , one better able to attain national distinction . Financed by the Carnegie Corporation , Cleveland Foundation , Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation , and several local donors , a study commission of national leaders in higher education and public policy was charged with exploring the idea of federation . The Heald Commission , so known for its chair , former Ford Foundation President Henry T . Heald , issued its final report , " Vision of a University . " The report predicted that federation would create one of the largest private universities in the nation , with a combined faculty larger than that of Princeton , Chicago , Stanford , or Johns Hopkins . Case Institute of Technology , a school of science and engineering , and Western Reserve University , known for its strong liberal arts and professional programs , came together in 1967 to form Case Western Reserve University . Campus . The university is approximately five miles ( eight km ) east of downtown Cleveland , adjacent to the historic Wade Park District in University Circle , a city neighborhood and commercial center , home to numerous educational , medical , and other cultural institutions . Case Western Reserve has a number of programs taught in conjunction with nearby institutions , including the Cleveland Institute of Music , the Cleveland Institute of Art , the Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center , the Cleveland Museum of Art , the Cleveland Museum of Natural History , the Western Reserve Historical Society , Cleveland Botanical Garden , and the Cleveland Play House . Kent H . Smith Quadrangle . The Kent H . Smith Quadrangle ( known to students as the Main Quad ) is located south of Euclid between Adelbert Road and Martin Luther King Jr . Drive . All of the engineering buildings are located on this quad in addition to all of the natural science buildings . Flora Stone Mather Quadrangle . The Flora Stone Mather Quadrangle ( known to students as the Mather Quad ) is located north of Euclid Avenue between East Blvd . , E . 115th Street , and Juniper Road . Usually it is more strictly defined by the area between East Blvd , Bellflower Road , and Ford Road north of Euclid Avenue . Named for the philanthropist wife of prominent industrialist Samuel Mather and sister - in - law of the famous statesman John Hay , the Flora Stone Mather Quad is home to Weatherhead School of Management , School of Law , Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences , and many departments of the College of Arts and Sciences . The Kelvin Smith Library ( Case Western Reserve ' s main library ) and the Thwing Student Center are also located on Mather Quad . North Residential Village . Situated on the northeast end of campus , the North Residential Village ( NRV ) is home to all Case Western Reserve ' s freshman who reside on campus . Constructed in the 1960s , the NRV consists of 12 4 floor buildings , an 11 floor " tower , " Leutner ( a dining hall ) , and a building containing the NRV area office and rehearsal space for Case Western Reserve ' s music department . Village at 115 . Located along E . 115th Street , this is the newest addition to Case Western Reserve ' s residential housing units , which opened in the fall of 2005 . Currently , only upper - class members may reside there . The Village ( as students refer to it ) consists of seven houses that surround the football field and track . Village housing is apartment style , with apartments that house one to nine people ( excluding eight person units ) . The apartments are fully furnished . The Village is also LEED certified . Houses 1 - 4 & 6 - 7 are certified silver while house 5 is certified gold . In February 2011 , a broken pipe joint in the plumbing of House 6 caused over a of water to flood the House ' s apartments , displacing upwards of 40 students . Although University Housing had crews working to repair the damage around the clock , it was over a week before any students could return , some as long as three weeks . This raised concerns about cut corners resulting in poor construction quality of the Village Houses . South Residential Village . Located between Murray Hill , Cedar , Edgehill , and Overlook roads , the South Residential Village ( SRV ) is home to most of Case Western Reserve ' s sophomore class . SRV is divided into two sections : Murray Hill Complex and Carlton Road Complex ( known to students as bottom of the hill and top of the hill , respectively , due to the hill separating the two complexes ) . Carlton Road Complex includes three sophomore - only dormitories and several Greek life houses . Murray Hill Complex includes two sophomore only buildings , one sophomore and upperclassmen building , one upperclassmen - only building , and Fribley , the SRV dining hall . Transportation . There are two main transportation options for students : For on - and near - campus transportation , Case Western Reserve has a fleet of shuttle buses known as Greenies , though they are currently painted blue . For longer trips , students may use the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority ( RTA ) bus and rail system . Each undergraduate student receives an unlimited RTA pass , which is paid for via a mandatory $ 25 fee per semester . Parking . Case Western Reserve does not manage its parking lots ( Standard Parking manages the lots ) . Students , faculty , and staff still purchase permits from the university . The rates vary between approximately $ 30 and $ 120 per month . The university owns two parking garages , one at the Village at 115 ( Lot S - 46 ) and the other near the Veale Athletic Center ( Lot S - 53 ) . Permits for these two lots are purchased from the university , and cost about $ 670 and $ 760 , respectively , per year , excluding the summer . Academics . Rankings . In 2011 , " Washington Monthly " ranked Case Western Reserve as the nation ' s 7th best national university for contributing to the public good . The publication ' s ranking was based upon a combination of factors including social mobility , research , and service . In 2009 , the school had ranked 15th . In 2010 , " The Times " ranked Case Western Reserve 39th in the U . S . and 65th worldwide . In September 2009 , " BusinessWeek " ranked Case Western Reserve ' s Weatherhead School of Management as one of the 30 best Design Thinking schools in the world . In 2008 , the National Science Foundation ranked Case Western Reserve # 23 in the country for producing the highest percentage of undergraduate students that go on to earn Engineering and Science Ph . Ds . " The Advocate " ranked Case Western Reserve University one of the top 100 LGBT - friendly universities . Case Western Reserve ranks 13th among private institutions ( 26th among all ) in federal expenditures for science and engineering research and development , per the National Science Foundation . Undergraduate profile . 97 percent of enrolled students received financial aid , with an average award of $ 34 , 318 . 67 percent of admitted students were in the top 10 percent of their high school class , 82 percent were in the top 20 percent , and 92 percent were in the top 30 percent . The SAT scores of the middle 50th percentile of admitted students were 610 - 700 in critical reading , 650 - 750 in math , and 600 - 690 in writing . On the ACT , the middle 50 % of scores was 28 - 32 . The most popular intended majors among the class of 2011 were engineering / computer science with 35 percent , followed by science / mathematics and pre - med / pre - dental medicine / pre - law with 18 percent and 15 percent , respectively . Only 7 percent were undecided . The Class of 2016 had 72 percent of students from out of the state of Ohio , 7 percent from outside of the United States . 74 percent graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class . Median SAT scores ( 25 % - 75 % ) were between 1280 and 1450 . The median range for ACT scores was 29 to 33 . Schools and programs . The university in its present form consists of eight schools : Case also supports over a hundred ' Centers ' in various fields . Naming controversy . In 2003 , the university unveiled a new logo and branding campaign that emphasized the " Case " portion of its name . In 2006 , interim university president Gregory Eastwood convened a task group to study reactions to the campaign . The panel ' s report indicated that it had gone so poorly that , " There appear to be serious concerns now about the university ' s ability to recruit and maintain high - quality faculty , fund - raising and leadership . " Also , the logo was derided among the university ' s community and alumni and throughout northeastern Ohio ; critics said it looked like " . . . a fat man with a surfboard . " In 2007 , the university ' s board of trustees approved a shift back to giving equal weight to " Case " and " Western Reserve . " A new logo was chosen and implementation began July 1 . In an open letter to the university community , interim president Eastwood admitted that " the university had misplaced its own history and traditions . " Endowment . Case Western Reserve University ' s endowment ranks at No . 30 among all U . S . colleges and universities . The university comes in at No . 18 for largest endowment growth over the past 20 years , experiencing an increase of 393 percent in that time ( See : List of U . S . colleges and universities by endowment ) . Student body . , the university had 4 , 386 undergraduate students and 5 , 640 graduate and professional students . The undergraduate student body hails from all 50 states and over 100 countries . Research . Following is a partial list of major contributions made by faculty , staff , and students at Case Western Reserve : Today , the university operates several facilities off campus for scientific research . One notable example of this is the Warner and Swasey Observatory at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona . Student life . Unless students are living with a relative within of the university , Case Western Reserve requires first - and second - year students to live in on - campus housing . Meal plan participation is also mandatory for first - and second - year students , 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 in the future . The residence halls are divided into two areas , one featuring suite - style rooms for second - year students and upperclassmen and the other featuring double and single rooms for first - year students . Both have gigabit ethernet network access and the wired network is one of the fastest that exists . A wireless campus network is also available anywhere on campus and ranked as one of the fastest by Intel in 2005 . New housing , known as the Village at 115 , was opened in fall 2005 for upperclassmen , which features one - to nine - person , " apartment - style " residence halls that come with air conditioning , a full kitchen area , and full - sized bed s . Residence Life at Case Western Reserve has a recent history of being liberal in its policies , including allowing co - ed suites ( an option offered to non - freshman students , when requested and agreed upon by all occupants of a suite ) and some co - ed floors for freshmen , as well as a three - day guest policy . Pets are allowed except for dogs , cats , ferrets , and a few other small mammals , but requests are granted discussion . Graduate students are not offered housing . A campus shuttle runs to Coventry Village , a shopping district in neighboring Cleveland Heights . Cleveland ' s Little Italy is within walking distance . Legacy Village , Severance Center , and Shaker Square shopping centers are all within driving distance or accessible by RTA . Music . WRUW - FM ( 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 Western Reserve students and community volunteers . The station ' s format can be classified as non - commercial " variety . " Case Western Reserve is also home to several performing ensembles , including a cappella groups such as the Case Men ' s Glee Club , Case Women ' s Glee Club , Case in Point , Speakeasy , Dhamakapella , Bigger Than A Breadbox , and Solstice . Other ensembles include the Case / University Circle Symphony Orchestra , Camerata Chamber Orchestra , Case / CIM Baroque Orchestra , Concert Choir , Early Music Singers , Jazz Ensemble 1 and 2 , Marching Spartans , Percussion Ensemble , Symphonic Winds , University Singers , Collegium Musicum , New Music Ensemble , Wind Ensemble , and Chamber Music . Case Western Reserve has two main rehearsal spaces for performing arts music majors and school ensembles . Hadyn Hall contains practice rooms with Steinway pianos , along with the department offices . Denison Hall serves as a rehearsal , practice , and teaching space for the music students and school ensembles , and is attached to Wade Commons . The Cleveland Youth Wind Symphony also rehearses in Denison Hall . Music majors take lessons at the Cleveland Institute of Music . For performances , all students , ensembles , and cappella groups use Harkness Chapel . The bands and orchestra also perform at Severance Hall ( the on - campus home of the Cleveland Orchestra ) and CIM ' s Kulas Hall . Computing . Case Western Reserve had the first ABET - accredited program in computer engineering . In 1968 , the university formed a private company , Chi Corporation , to provide computer time to both it and other customers . Initially this was on a Univac 1108 ( replacing the preceding UNIVAC 1107 ) , 36 bit , one ' s complement machine . The company was sold in 1977 to Robert G . Benson in Beachwood , Ohio . Project Logos , under ARPA contract , was begun within the department on a DEC System - 10 ( later converted to TENEX ( BBN ) in conjunction with connection to the ARPANET ) to develop a computer - aided computer design system . This system consisted in a distributed , networked , graphics environment , a control and data flow designer and logic ( both hardware and software ) analyzer . Graphics and animation became another departmental focus with the acquisition of an Evans & Sutherland LDS - 1 , which was hosted by the DEC System - 10 , and later with the acquisition of the stand alone LDS - 2 . Case Western Reserve was one of the earliest universities connected to the ARPANET , predecessor to the Internet . ARPANET went online in 1969 ; Case Western Reserve was connected in January , 1971 . Case Western Reserve graduate Ken Biba published the Biba Integrity Model in 1977 and served on the ARPA Working Group that developed the Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP ) used on the Internet . Case Western Reserve 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 , as it had become obsolete . It was the first university to have an all - fiber - optic network , in 1989 . At the inaugural meeting in October , 1996 , Case Western Reserve was one of the 34 charter university members of Internet2 . The university was ranked No . 1 in Yahoo Internet Life ' s 1999 Most Wired College list . 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 submitted by Ray Neff in 1999 . The university had previously placed No . 13 in the 1997 poll . In August 2003 , Case Western Reserve joined the Internet Streaming Media Alliance , then one of only two university members . In September 2003 , Case Western Reserve opened 1 , 230 public wireless access points on the Case Western Reserve campus and University Circle . Case Western Reserve was one of the founding members of OneCleveland , formed in October 2003 . 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 . Case Western Reserve is also known for its Virtual Worlds gaming computer lab , which opened in 2005 . The lab has a large network of Alienware PCs equipped with game development software such as the Torque Game Engine and Maya 3D modeling software . Additionally , it contains a number of specialized advanced computing rooms including a medical simulation room , a MIDI instrument music room , a 3D projection " immersion room , " a virtual reality research room , and console room , which features video game systems such as Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 , and Wii . This laboratory can be used by any student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department , and is heavily used for the Game Development ( EECS 290 ) course . Case Western ' s Internet Technology Service also runs a High Performance Computing Cluster ( HPCC ) utilizing 2684 processors over 200 computer nodes interconnected with gigabit fiberoptic ethernet . The HPCC is available for research utilizing a wide array of commercial and custom scientific software packages and computer languages including : Matlab , Mathematica , Ansys CFX Fluent and ICEM , Schrödinger , LAMMPS , Gaussian , NEURON , MCell , Python , Qhull , Sundials , Charmm / qchem , Rosetta , Gromacs , NAMD , C , C + + , Fortran . Housing . First - year students are grouped into one of four residential college s that are overseen by first - year coordinators . The Mistletoe , Juniper , and Magnolia residential colleges were established when the " First Year Experience " system was introduced , and Cedar was created in the fall of 2005 to accommodate a large influx of new students . In the fall of 2007 , Magnolia was integrated into Mistletoe , however , it was later re - separated in the fall of 2012 . The areas of focus for each college are – Cedar : visual and performing arts ; Mistletoe : service leadership ; Juniper : multiculturalism and Magnolia : sustainability . The residential colleges plan events together and are run by college councils that take student input and use it to plan social and community service - oriented activities . Greek life . Nearly one - third of the campus undergraduates are in a fraternity or sorority . There are eight sororities and fifteen fraternities currently on campus . Greek organizations are governed by an Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council . During the 2010 – 2011 school year , fraternities and sororities at Case collectively raised over $ 45 , 375 for philanthropy . In September 2010 , the Delta Chi Fraternity joined the Greek community , achieving chapter status in October 2012 . In September 2012 , Pi Beta Phi sorority began a colonization effort . The fraternities are : The sororities are : From 1937 to 2001 there was a German - American Studentenverbindung situated in Cleveland called Corps Brandenburgia Berlin zu Cleveland . It consisted mainly of students from the German nobility . Together with the Corps Teuto - Rugia , they formed the SC zu Cleveland . Traditions . The Hudson Relays is an annual tradition at Case Western Reserve University that occurs on the last weekend before finals every spring semester . It is a relay race between teams drawn from each class year . The race is a distance of . Originally , the race was run from Hudson , Ohio , the original site of Western Reserve University , to the present location of the school in University Circle . Since the mid - 1980s , the race has been run entirely in the University Circle area . University tradition is that if a class wins the relay for each of its four years , the team will be rewarded with a champagne and steak dinner with the president of the university . The most recent class to achieve this was the class of 2011 . The winning class for each year is carved on a boulder located behind Adelbert Hall . Springfest is a day - long concert and student group festival that occurs later in the same day as Hudson Relays . The Springfest Planning Committee 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 festive atmosphere . Occasionally , due to adverse weather conditions , 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 Valley , Ohio . Students , their families , and faculty are invited to enjoy games , a bonfire , an open air concert and hay rides . Organized by the members of the Class Officer Collective , HATF is one of the biggest events of the year . In the fall of 2009 the event was moved to the main campus and renamed " Halloween at Home " . Since 1974 , the Film Society of Case Western Reserve University has held a science fiction marathon . The film festival , the oldest of its type , boasts more than 34 hours of non - stop movies , cartoons , trailers , and shorts spanning many decades and sub - genres . Athletics . Case Western Reserve University has been a member of the University Athletic Association ( UAA ) since the early 1990s . The conference participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ' s ( NCAA ) Division III . The university offers 10 men ' s sports and nine women ' s sports . Two of the teams attained unprecedented success in the fall of 2006 , with the women ' s cross country team winning the Great Lakes regional championship for the first time , and the men ' s soccer team earning its first - ever NCAA tournament bid . The Case Western Reserve Men ' s Soccer team finished their 2006 season with a 17 – 2 – 2 record and a UAA championship . The team reached the Sweet 16 in their first - ever NCAA Division III tournament appearance and concluded the season ranked 12th in the nation . Case Western Reserve has an excellent cross country program , as evidenced by their finishes at the NCAA national competition over the past three years . The Case Western Reserve ' s women ' s cross country team finished the 2006 season with a UAA Championship and a bid to the NCAA Championship . The Lady Spartans finished 10th in the nation . The women ' s team went on to finish even higher at nationals in 2007 , earning a sixth - place finish at the NCAA DIII national championship . Both the men ' s and women ' s Cross Country teams qualified for and competed in the NCAA DIII national championships in 2008 , with the women ' s team coming away with two All - Americans and a 16th - place finish . In 2009 , they had two All - Americans and finished 15th . In 2010 , the lady Spartans finished 19th , with one all - American , senior Justine Jeroski . The Case Western Reserve football team finished the 2007 season with the school ' s first UAA Championship in football , first playoff appearance , and first playoff win against Widener University . The team lost to Wabash College in the second round . Case Western Reserve football had another undefeated regular season in 2008 but lost in the first round of the NCAA Division III playoffs to Wabash College . In 2009 , the team finished its 3rd consecutive undefeated regular season and won the UAA . It earned a 3rd straight playoff appearance , losing in the first round to Trine University . Beginning with the 2014 season , the football team will be moving to the Presidents ' Athletic Conference . All other sports will remain in the University Athletic Association . Case Western Reserve ' s primary athletic rival is Carnegie Mellon University . Alumni Associations . Throughout the years , many higher education institutions merged to form what is now known as Case Western Reserve University . Even though the colleges do not exist individually , two alumni associations are still thriving . Case Alumni Association . The Case Alumni Association ( CAA ) is one of the oldest independent alumni organization in the United States , having been organized in 1885 . Membership in the Association is conferred upon all graduates of the Case School of Applied Science , Case Institute of Technology , Case School of Engineering , and the mathematics and science departments within the College of Arts and Sciences . Those who have attended any of the above institutions for at least one semester are considered members of the association . The main offices returned to campus in November 2010 at Tomlinson Hall , 2121 Martin Luther King Jr . Drive , Cleveland , Ohio , 44106 . CAA recently expanded its reach by establishing chapters ( Case Clubs ) in various U . S . cities , including Washington , D . C . , Silicon Valley , San Diego , Los Angeles , Phoenix and Boston . CWRU Alumni Relations . Case Western Reserve University Alumni Relations is the primary alumni association for any alumni who have attend CWRU for at least one semester .