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When the first of several devastating earthquakes struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, Case Western Reserve University graduate students Nirmala Lekhak and her husband, Tirth Bhatta, felt an urgent and deep-seated need to help their home country. While they have not been able to visit Nepal in the year…

Future Cleveland ideastream: Mark Joseph, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, participated in a panel discussion for the City Club of Cleveland. He discussed how it’s not enough to have a diverse population in a community, explaining that…

Q&A: Diana Bilimoria Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription only): Diana Bilimoria, the Keybank Professor and chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior, discussed her research into issues of gender, inclusion and diversity in organizations. “There’s correlations between organizations…

Les Arts Florissants bring opéra-ballet back to life New York Times: Georgia J. Cowart, professor of music, discussed André Campra’s 1710 opéra-ballet Les Fêtes Vénitiennes. “The opéra-ballet was created when Louis XIV was old, ailing, withdrawn from public life, and had lost interest in music and…

Here's your chance! The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently launched an online platform for people to submit research ideas for the Cancer Moonshot.  Suggestions will be collected by the Blue Ribbon Panel and formulated into RFAs with short submission times. I will remind you that the…

The first time Evan Ostrowski stepped foot on campus, he was immersed in one of Case Western Reserve University’s richest traditions—the Hudson Relays. As a high school senior, Ostrowski, now a chemical engineering student and member of the Class of 2017, paid his visit to CWRU on the day the…

The Student Community at Covenant (SCC) will host brunch Sunday, April 24, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Church of the Covenant. At the brunch, students will have the opportunity to say farewell to SCC chaplain Rev. Eileen Vizcaino, who is retiring. All students from undergraduates to…

Matthew Rossman, professor of law, wrote an opinion piece for The Plain Dealer titled “Homeowners hardest hit by foreclosure crisis deserve 'disaster' relief.” In his article, Rossman explains how certain communities were hit hardest by foreclosures—and never recovered. He proposes providing…

This week we dove deep into the history of the Hudson Relays—all the way back to the very first one. Who was the student who came up with the idea back in 1910? Monroe Curtis (ADL 1911) brainstormed the relays, launching a tradition 106 years strong. As the creator of the event, Curtis was named…

Educational Services for Students (ESS) will offer a fee-based Spoken English Seminar for international graduate students this summer. Students will have the opportunity to participate in an interactive and engaging seminar to improve their spoken English skills. The five-week, 10-hour seminar…