The archives
Think Magazine from Fall/Winter 2008 to the present
Spring/Summer 2024
Featuring: Pioneering Scientist
Paul Tesar explores the complexities of little-understood cells to revolutionize treatment of devastating neurological diseases
Fall/Winter 2023
Featuring: The Wins of Change
CWRU's first national NCAA team championship capped historic year
Spring/Summer 2023
Featuring: Their Aim is True
Known as ‘bent arrows,’ these students changed direction to pursue MDs
Fall/Winter 2022
Featuring: Engaging with Our Community
From collaborations tackling health disparities to initiatives expanding opportunities for local children, the campus community is forging stronger ties in the Cleveland area.
Spring/Summer 2022
Featuring: 'A Breath of Fresh Air'
Calling Cleveland 'a city on the rise;' double alumnus Justin Bibb is determined to deliver
Fall/Winter 2021
Featuring: Still Running
Eric Kaler continues the warp-speed pace that took him from first-generation college student to two-time university president
Spring/Summer 2021
Featuring: Blazing a New Trail to the Ballpark
CWRU provided a springboard for alumna Bianca Smith’s pioneering move to coaching professional baseball.
Fall/Winter 2020
Featuring: Bridge Builder
By restoring trust and renewing relationships, Barbara R. Snyder transformed a troubled campus into an institution on the rise.
Fall/Winter 2019
Featuring: Engineering an Artistic Vision
Alumna Rina Banerjee's distinctive, mysterious sculptures evoke the perils and promise of globalism.
Spring/Summer 2019
Featuring: Rock Stars
Billion-year-old meteorites travel millions of miles just to land in Cari Corrigan's Smithsonian lab.
Fall/Winter 2018
Featuring: Buzzing With Innovation The university is cultivating an environment designed to educate, mentor, advise and elevate entrepreneurs and other creators.
Spring/Summer 2018
Featuring: Fashioning History Alumna Elaine Nichols, senior curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, believes everyone has a story. This is hers.
Fall/Winter 2017
Featuring: Making Connections Researchers have given one man the ability to move a paralyzed limb with his thoughts and others the chance to feel sensations through prosthetic hands. In restoring functions for some, they offer hope to many.
Spring/Summer 2017
Featuring: She's A Mover Gina Gibny’s dance steps reverberate far beyond her New York studios.
Fall/Winter 2016
Featuring: A Brainy Idea How one student’s creation could help researchers better understand the dangerous Zika virus.
Spring/Summer 2016
Featuring: Fine Lines Tom Bachtell (WRC ‘80) creates signature caricatures for The New Yorker magazine.
Fall/Winter 2015
Featuring: True Gems World-class mentoring creates new scientists and cutting-edge materials.
Spring/Summer 2015
Featuring: An Ethical University Building a campus-wide foundation for thoughtful dialogue.
Fall/Winter 2014
Featuring: Expanding Our Reach A deliberate strategy to make a world-class university worldwide.
Spring/Summer 2014
Featuring: Exploring the Brain Research teams pursuing a broad range of projects to better understand what lies within our skulls.
Fall/Winter 2013
Featuring: Thirty Under 30 A spotlight on outstanding young alumni, from the lab to the stage.
Spring/Summer 2013
Featuring: Fantastic Four. Accomplished young alumnae achieve national acclaim.
Fall/Winter 2012
Featuring: To the Next Big Thing Academia provides the tools that help budding entrepreneurs launch companies from campus.
Spring/Summer 2011
Featuring Pulling the Plug on Paper. physicians trade in their patients' file folders for electronic medical records , discovering a family secret in a trove of old letters and the downside to bedrest.
Fall/Winter 2010
Featuring Getting the Lead Out. Fifteen years after being effectively removed from the U.S. market, the prolific danger of leaded gasoline becomes clearer , a link between common blood pressure drugs and increased cancer risk and alum and famed geek Don Knuth talks computers, contests and pipe organs.
Spring/Summer 2010
Featuring Is Bad Taste the New Taste? Social Media is Changing Our Sense of What's Acceptable—and What's Not, expert arguments regarding healthcare reform, an interview with Mad Men actor and alum, Rich Sommer, and a new technology may help wheelchair-bound individuals to walk.
Fall/Winter 2009
Featuring The Digital Divide: Kindle DX makes a splash on campus with fans and critics, researchers taking stem cells back in time, an excerpt from bestselling author Thrity Umrigar's latest novel, and insights into why good-looking people are harder to draw with New Yorker cartoonist Tom Bachtell.
Spring/Summer 2009
Featuring Full Speed Ahead: The race is one to expand high-speed rail in the U.S., a new superbug targeting U.S. military men and women, strategies for change, and a chat with Alum and Warner Bros. CEO Barry Meyer.
Fall/Winter 2008
Inaugural issue, featuring Vanishing Act: How the universe is erasing evidence of its own origins, as well as stories from inside the trial of Saddam Hussein, the truth about human trafficking, Alzheimer's research and more.
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