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Elina Gertsman, assistant professor of medieval art, recently won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America for her book, The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (Brepols, 2010). The award is given annually for the best first book from an author in…

Georgia Cowart, a professor in the Department of Music, received the 2014 SAGES Excellence in Writing Instruction Award. The honor recognizes Cowart’s commitment to helping students—from all areas of the campus—develop the skills necessary to better organize and articulate their thoughts,…

Kelvin Smith Library and the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship announced the recipients of the 2014 Freedman Fellows awards: Melvyn Goldstein, John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet Justin Gallagher, assistant professor,…

Why there's still much ado about Shakespeare, 450 years later The Christian Science Monitor: Though fans and scholars around the world are celebrating William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, he wasn’t always revered as important. “People like Robert Greene and Ben Jonson claimed that he stole from…

CWRU researchers win $2.3 million grant to study child abuse, neglect in Cleveland neighborhoods The Plain Dealer: Four researchers—Jim Spilsbury, Claudia Coulton, Jill Korbin and David Crampton—received a $2.3 million grant to study the causes of child abuse and neglect in various Cleveland…

My first MOOC: The planning behind a massive open online course Entrepreneur: In a Q&A, Michael Goldberg, visiting assistant professor of design and innovation, explained how he prepared for his massive open online course that launched Monday on Coursera.

Hollywood's Barbie problem: How will human actress size up? Yahoo Movies: Mattel and Sony Pictures announced plans to bring Barbie to the big screen—but some are concerned how a real-life actress can live up to the doll’s unreal body dimensions. "If filmmakers try to remake a real person to look…

In partnership with Bon Appétit Management Co. and CWRU, Matt Fish brings award-winning gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches to first on-campus location with Melt University Melt Bar & Grilled, a Cleveland-area favorite for gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, is going back to school. One of the…

The Writing Resource Center will offer finals walk-in hours May 4-6 at Cramelot Café in Kelvin Smith Library. Writing Resource Center consultants will hold one-on-one sessions to answer questions concerning finals essays, papers, citations and more. Sessions are first-come, first-served, and will…

This story could begin in a dark, shadowy place. But it actually occurred in an ordinary school gym with a white sheet and a spotlight. Sixteen SAGES students from Case Western Reserve University recently created magic with shadows at Roxboro Elementary School in Cleveland Heights. It was part of…