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Art history’s Erin Benay receives the International Fine Prints and Drawings Foundation’s Best Book of the Year award
Erin Benay, associate professor of art history, director of undergraduate studies and Distinguished Scholar in the Public Humanities, and Britany Salsbury, curator of prints and drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art, won the Best Book of the Year Award from the International Fine Prints and…
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April 10, 2026
Evaluation based on preparing and graduating students that employers seek in an evolving AI-driven workforce
April 10, 2026
Three Case Western Reserve University students in the Department of Classics—Nicholas Stewart, Eleanor Hirt and Iris Chen—won prizes for the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) International Latin Translation Exam. Each received a Certificate of Commendation, the…
April 08, 2026
CWRU’s CURE courses give first-year students the chance to conduct real research from day one
April 08, 2026
The Human & Technology Lab at Case Western Reserve University will host a weekend-long make-a-thon where students will have the opportunity to use AI-powered “vibe-coding” to design educational tools for teaching in the humanities at the VCET: Vibe-Coded Ed-Tech Challenge. From games and…
April 07, 2026
Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Dance is hosting its final production of the 2025-2026 season from April 15-18 at Mather Dance Center. With Gratitude is a special concert celebrating 50 years of the Graduate Dance Program...
April 03, 2026
Music's Jessica Gallagher-Steuver announces inaugural publication of Journal of Queer Choral Studies
Jessica Gallagher-Steuver, PhD (CWR ’25; music education) part-time lecturer in Case Western Reserve University's Department of Music, announced the inaugural publication of the peer-reviewed, open-access Journal of Queer Choral Studies. Gallagher-Steuver serves as founding editor-in-chief of the…
April 03, 2026
John Broich, associate professor of history at Case Western Reserve University, published White Supremacy: A Short History earlier this month with Cambridge University Press. Written for a general audience, the book traces the origins and evolution of white supremacists thought across the…
April 03, 2026
Jessica Wolfendale, professor of philosophy at Case Western Reserve University’s College of Arts and Sciences, recently published a new book—American Torture and American Terrorism: The Myth of American Decency— with Oxford University Press. In her book, Wolfendale argues that torture and terrorism…
April 02, 2026
Across the United States, a routine doctor’s visit isn’t always simple. For many patients, understanding medical information, navigating online portals or even knowing what questions to ask can feel overwhelming. This reality led to the creation of the Health Fluency Project (HFP), which aims to…
April 01, 2026
Every time a software team releases an update, there’s a new risk of something else breaking. CWRU alum and entrepreneur Michael Rosenfield (CWR ’17), saw the problem firsthand at Google—and watched engineering teams manually check that nothing had gone wrong after every change.His San…