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The Class of 2015 is shaping up to be a gainfully employed group, based on the results of our poll. Of the graduating students who responded, 66 percent said they are heading to a job or internship after commencement on Sunday, May 17. In addition, 28 percent plan to further their education with…

A simple yet powerful maxim guides the extraordinary philanthropy of the Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust: helping people and organizations help themselves. That principle emanates from the lives of the Trust’s namesake, Kent Hale Smith (CIT ’17), and his wife, Thelma. And it continues today through…

Anthony Price, a high school student who works in Professor Rigoberto Advincula’s research lab, recently was awarded a 2015 Princeton Prize in Race Relations. This prestigious award carries a $1,000 prize for particularly noteworthy work and included an all-expense paid trip to Princeton University…

Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity and Professor of English Marilyn Mobley recently was selected for a Judson Smart Living Award in Education. Mobley was honored at the awards recognition luncheon Thursday, May 14. For the 10th year, Judson Smart Living Awards have…

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, and his team were awarded a $387,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop image-based methods to predict aggression in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a precursor of breast cancer. Madabhushi is the director of the Center for…

Jason N. Rucker was named this year's scholarship recipient of the Ohio Collegiate Plate Program, sponsored by The Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University. The CWRU Ohio License Plate Scholarship is awarded to a student who demonstrates a strong commitment to classmates and the…

Moms Offering Moms Support (MOMS) will host an information session with a cross-cultural cultural perspective on mothering, parenting and childcare with Vanessa Hildebrand, assistant professor of anthropology. The session, which was rescheduled from a canceled event in February, will be held…

The Women Faculty of the School of Medicine will hold its Spring Dinner on Tuesday, May 19, at 5:30 p.m. in the Allen Memorial Library. Francine Kaufman, chief medical officer and vice president of global diabetes for Medtronic Inc., will be the guest speaker at the event. Kaufman is also…

For those who will be attending commencement on Sunday, May 17, a schedule is available to help plan out the day. The University Convocation will be at 9:30 a.m. in the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic Center. Each school will hold its own diploma ceremony: Undergraduate Studies: 11…

A look at the investigation of the Tamir Rice case Mother Jones: On Tuesday, the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department gave its first press conference about the criminal investigation into the November killing of Tamir Rice by a police officer. Ayesha Bell Hardaway, a visiting assistant professor of…