Academics
Commencement - May 19, 2023
Students of the School of Graduate Studies who received degrees in August 2022 and January 2023 and those who will graduate in May 2023 are invited to attend our Diploma Ceremony in Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic Center as part of Commencement on Friday, May 19 at 2:00pm! Registration for graduates is required so don't forget; registration will close on Sunday, April 2 at 11:59pm EDT. Please note that applying to graduate and registering for Commencement are two entirely separate processes. When you register, you will be able to enter a preferred name and phonetic spelling and record your pronunciation. We are not issuing guest tickets for our Diploma Ceremony and you many invite as many friends and family to attend as you wish.
To ensure you will receive your cap and gown in time for the ceremony, you are strongly encouraged to order regalia as soon as possible. Don't wait until the deadline!
All students are also invited to a University-wide Convocation on Wednesday, May 17. More details on Commencement 2023 will be posted in the coming weeks but you can review additional information here.
Submit Graduation Materials by April 7
If you have applied to graduate for Spring 2023, you must submit your final materials by 5:00pm EDT on Friday, April 7. Submission of materials includes the completed format check and the uploading of your approved Thesis or Dissertation to OhioLINK. Please plan to communicate with your advisors and committee to make sure all approvals are completed. All forms can be downloaded and electronically signed to be emailed to gradstudies@case.edu or dropped off in our office in Tomlinson 203.
As a reminder, please review the new digital accessibility policy for electronic theses and dissertations.
Last Day for Course Withdrawal: March 31
If you need to withdraw from a single course (as long as it is not your only class), you have until Friday, March 31 to do so. For most classes, this is to be done in SIS. See the University Registrar's page on class registration (start at #20) for instructions.
When you drop the individual course, you will receive a grade of W on your transcript and you will receive a 0% tuition refund. If you have more questions or are unsure whether you should drop the individual course, speak to your professor and/or advisor before making the decision to withdraw.
Incomplete (I) Grades from Fall 2022?
If you received an Incomplete (I) grade in the fall semester, you have until the date specified by your instructor - but no later than the 11th week of class (Friday, March 31) - to submit all outstanding work in order to have a final grade posted. If the Incomplete is not resolved by this date, the I grade will be converted to an F. See our Incomplete Policy in the Bulletin for more details.
Currently Auditing a Course?
Students can audit a course to gain knowledge in a subject area without being bound to complete all of the required coursework. Email a completed Add/Drop Form to gradstudies@case.edu to audit a course for Spring 2023 by Friday, March 31. A student may audit a course with the approval of the instructor and advisor, however, they receive no credit for the course (a grade of AD is posted on the transcript). Note that a course cannot be changed from Audit to Credit, and audited courses cannot be used to fulfill any degree requirements. Full tuition is charged for audited courses.
Campus Community
Material Borrowed from KSL
Remember to periodically log into your library account to check the status of your borrowed materials. For graduate students, most circulating books will have a fixed due date that falls at the end of the spring semester. You can also log into your account to renew items and check the status of OhioLINK and SearchOhio requests.
Student Employees Needed for SELP
Spoken English Language Programs (SELP) in the School of Graduate Studies is looking for current graduate students to fill multiple positions, beginning in the summer of 2023, as English language test administrators and language/culture class instructors. Students hired will be trained in both effective communication with international students and visitors and language assessment.
SELP employees need to have native or high-level English-language proficiency and demonstrate familiarity with US academic and social cultures. If interested, please contact Eric Moore, Director, Spoken English Language Programs.
Join the Int'l Student Advisory Council
To give international students a stronger voice on campus and support engagement, International Student Services (ISS) is seeking international graduate and undergraduate students to join the student advisory council. Learn more and submit nominations by Sunday, April 2!
Spring Arrives
Spring officially began on Monday, March 20. Blossoms and buds should be returning to campus and Cleveland soon. Already some flowers are peaking out from the winter soil. Take some time to go out and enjoy the world awakening!
University Circle is also a great neighborhood to explore on foot! Get some exercise and see new sights close to campus with these recommended walking and biking routes.
Have Fun in Cleveland!
Curious about what to do in and around Cleveland? First, here are seven things to do this spring. And also check out This is Cleveland and International Student Services' Bucket List for events happening in and around Cleveland and places to visit before you graduate. Don't forget your student ID card can get you free visits to some of the many cultural, scientific, and educational attractions near campus!
Upcoming Events
The Office of Graduate Student Life is coordinating a more than a week long event at the beginning of April to recognize the intellectual, teaching, and cultural contributions that graduate students make to our University community everyday!
See below for a list of official GSAW and related events but keep checking the CampusGroups page for more information as they're added!
To kick-off GSAW 2023, from Thursday, March 30 through Thursday, April 6, you can also participate in an in-person scavenger hunt or a virtual scavenger hunt. Winners will be contacted on Friday, April 7.
| Sun 4/2 |
8:00pm- 11:00pm |
GSC Cavs Game |
| Mon 4/3 |
8:00am- 7:00pm |
Mindfulness Monday |
| Mon 4/3 |
10:00am- 3:00pm |
OMA Graduate Student Appreciation |
| Mon 4/3 |
11:00am- 1:00pm |
Blanket Making for Project Linus |
| Mon 4/3 |
3:00pm- 5:30pm |
GCAS Career Panel & Networking |
| Mon 4/3 |
6:00pm- 7:00pm |
Virtual Yoga |
| Tue 4/4 |
8:00am- 7:00pm |
Tasty Tuesday |
| Tue 4/4 |
8:00am- 10:00am |
Free Coffee in the HEC |
| Tue 4/4 |
1:00pm- 3:00pm |
Tea & Chocolate Tasting |
| Tue 4/4 |
3:00pm- 6:00pm |
SOM Grad Appreciation Reception |
| Tue 4/4 |
5:00pm- 7:00pm |
Dinner at Falafel Cafe |
| Wed 4/5 |
8:00am- 7:00pm |
Wellness Wednesday |
| Wed 4/5 |
2:00pm- 3:00pm |
GSAC Grad Student Career Planning |
| Wed 4/5 |
5:30pm- 6:15pm |
Zumba Class |
| Wed 4/5 |
5:30pm- 6:30pm |
GSC General Assembly Meeting |
| Thu 4/6 |
9:00am- 7:00pm |
Thrive Thursday |
| Thu 4/6 |
11:00am- 12:00pm |
Networking 101 |
| Fri 4/7 |
9:00am- 9:00pm |
Fun Friday!! |
| Fri 4/7 |
6:00pm- 8:00pm |
GSAC Paint and Sip |
| Sat 4/8 |
7:00pm- 11:00pm |
GSAW Ball |
| Fri 4/14 |
8:00pm- 11:00pm |
EGG Happy Hour |
Join the Spoken English Language Programs (SELP) in the School of Graduate Studies for free weekly workshops for international graduate students and postdocs on topics in using the English language and US academic and social culture. Each topic has multiple session options on different days; please register for only one session in a week.
What’s your Opinion about Opinions? Asking for, Giving, Agreeing, and Disagreeing
Tuesday, March 28, 11:30am – 12:30pm
Friday, March 31, 3:20 – 4:20pm
What? Huh? Strengthening your English Language Listening Skills
Tuesday, April 4, 11:30am – 12:30pm
Thursday, April 6, 1:15 – 2:15pm
Friday, April 7, 3:20 – 4:20pm
Baseball: The USA’s National Pastime
Tuesday, April 11, 11:30am – 12:30pm
Thursday, April 13, 1:15 – 2:15pm
Friday, April 14, 3:20 – 4:20pm
Summer Travel and Fun in Cleveland, Ohio, and the USA
Tuesday, April 18, 11:30am – 12:30pm
Thursday, April 20, 1:15 – 2:15pm
Friday, April 21, 3:20 – 4:20pm
Networking and Socializing in the United States
Tuesday, April 25, 11:30am – 12:30pm
Thursday, April 27, 1:15 – 2:15pm
The Department of Dance's spring MFA thesis concert will feature works from MFA candidates El-drick Aboagye, Shadrach Arthur, and Haiyan Chen (winner of the 2021 Cleveland Arts Prize: Kathryn Karipides Scholarship in Modern Dance). Springworks will run from March 30 to April 1 at 7:30pm and April 2 at 2:30pm in the Mather Dance Center.
What is data? How do you get it? And most importantly, how do you find data relevant to your academic interests?
Join Kelvin Smith Library on Wednesday, April 5 at 1:00pm to look at a variety of data types and sources and discuss how you can begin your search for relevant data.
Learn about what the Graduate Student Council is up to at the next monthly general assembly meeting on Wednesday, April 5 at 5:30pm in Adelbert Hall's Toepfer Room. Dinner will be provided.
At this meeting, applicants for the GSC Executive Board positions will present a short speech on their candidacy and answer questions from the assembly present.
Next month's graduate and professional student Happy Hour will be sponsored by the Engineering Graduate Government on Friday, April 7 as part of Graduate Student Appreciation Week!
We've all heard "publish or perish" in academia - but where to begin in the world of publishing? Register for Kelvin Smith Library's series to highlight key elements of the publishing lifecycle, from what an academic publication entails to how to submit a work for publication, and then make sure your work has the broadest possible reach.
The third session is Wednesday, April 12 at 4:00pm in the Freedman Center Collaboration Commons on publication discoverability and visibility.
Register on CampusGroups and contact Erin Smith with any questions.
Save the date for the LGBT Center's annual Lavender Graduation on Friday, April 28 to celebrate the LGBTQ+ Class of 2023!
Graduating students and guests should register on CampusGroups.
| Sat 4/1 |
12:30pm- 6:30pm |
First Annual CWRU Chess Tournament |
| Wed 4/5 |
7:00pm- 9:00pm |
KSL Game Night |
| Thu 4/6 |
1:00pm- 2:00pm |
KSL Bring Your Own Data Workshop |
| Fri 4/7 |
8:00pm- 11:00pm |
oSTEM Rainbow Gala |
| Fri 4/14 |
12:30pm- 3:30pm |
Public Safety Open House |
| Sat 4/15 |
10:00am- 11:30am |
Square Foot Gardening for Beginners |
| Sat 4/15 |
1:00pm- 4:00pm |
Holi Festival of Colors |
Award Season
The second annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at CWRU was held on February 17. Over two dozen students competed by communicating the significance of their projects to a general audience in just three minutes with only one slide. Congratulations to this year's winners:
- George Hoeferlin, Biomedical Engineering
Office of Interprofessional and Interdisciplinary Education and Research 1st Place Prize
Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership People's Choice Award - Razaq Durodoye, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Science & Human Rights Coalition 2nd Place Prize - Tshiya Subayi, Management
Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship 3rd Place Prize - Ila Mishra, Senior Research Associate, Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals
Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship Translational Fellows Postdoc Prize - Rachel Hohe, Molecular Medicine
Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership People's Choice Award - Samuel Ojo, Civil Engineering
Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership People's Choice Award
George has gone on to represent CWRU and compete at the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools Regional Competition in this month.
Congratulations to this year's winners of the prestigious John S. Diekhoff Awards for Faculty Teaching and Mentoring! A student-led committee selected Karla Coburn from Anatomy to receive the award for graduate teaching with Jason Mears from Pharmacology, Andrew Pieper from Psychiatry, and Bill Yu from Civil and Environmental Engineering receiving the award for graduating mentoring.
All four will be honored at our Graduate Student Award Ceremony on May 3 and will be presented their awards during the Grad Studies diploma ceremony at Commencement on May 19.
The 19th annual Graduate Awards Ceremony returns to the Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom on Wednesday, May 3 at 3:00pm EDT to recognize dozens of outstanding students from across campus and also honor this year's four winners of the prestigious John S. Diekhoff Awards for Faculty Teaching and Mentoring.
Last call for departments to submit notifications to Grad Studies! Let us know about any awards departments are giving this year so all student winners may be included in our ceremony.
Send any questions about the ceremony or the awards to sgsevents@case.edu.
Graduate students who are working to make impactful actions and advancement of the mission of the LGBT+ community at CWRU, in Cleveland, or beyond through scholarship, research, or leadership activities can apply for CWRU Pride LGBT Ohio Leadership Award.
Applications and letters of recommendation are due by 5:00pm EDT on Friday, March 31.
Women-identified Masters and PhD students in programs taught by the College of Arts and Sciences can apply for the Eva L. Pancoast Memorial Fellowship to assist in extending their education by foreign study or foreign travel, or both in the twelve months following the current academic year.
The amounts of the fellowships vary, but generally range from $1,000 to $3,500. Those who receive awards will be required to submit a brief report of the project after its completion with reasonable documentary evidence of major expenditures. Funds are not disbursed until expenses are incurred and original receipts are submitted.
Additional information and application details will be available soon when the 2023 nominations open. Reference letters should be submitted separately by the letter writer electronically to Dean Karie Feldman; please ask your recommender to include your name and PANCOAST in the subject line of the email.
The winners will be celebrated at our Graduate Award Ceremony on Wednesday, May 3.
Applications and recommendation letters are due Saturday, April 1.
