Western Reserve

American  

noun

1. a tract of land in NE Ohio reserved by Connecticut (1786) when its rights to other land in the western U.S. were ceded to the federal government; relinquished in 1800.

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Example Sentences

At Case Western Reserve University, the team included Mikhail Linetsky, research professor in chemistry, Masaru Miyagi, professor of pharmacology at the School of Medicine, and graduate students.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

In 2023, Case Western Reserve University became one of the first medical schools in the United States to remove human bodies from its training programme, and replace them with VR models.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025

“As it currently stands, public health no longer exists at the federal level,” Dr. Ryan Marino, an emergency medicine physician at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, told Salon by email.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

Ortiz Mariño had recently returned from four years of study at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2024

To reestablish his links to the black community after graduation, he accepted a scholarship from the Urban League to pursue a master’s degree in social work at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson