College of Arts and Sciences

Earlier this month, Laura Tartakoff—senior instructor at Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Political Sciences—received an editorial review of her bilingual book of poetry, Wandering Without Wings or a Halo (Caminando sin halo ni alas), by Cuba Nuestra Digital. “There are books you do...

Ambrose Swasey Associate Professor, Departments of Physics and Chemistry Area of Focus: Microscopy and materials science—finding new ways to examine things at a small scale to fundamentally understand them. Lydia Kisley is eager for an opportunity to talk about her research, even if it’s just for...

The Air Force ROTC program offered an opportunity Kalli Wall couldn’t pass up. She joined the program as a first-year student at Case Western Reserve University because she knew it would lead her to a unique career path. Kalli Wall Now a risin...

The university community mourns the loss of David Schiraldi, the Peter A. Asseff PhD Professor Emeritus of Organic Chemistry and professor emeritus of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, who passed away July 13. A former chair of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, he serv...

Celebrating Women Astronomers Day featuring women astrophysicists on the faculty

This summer, Case Western Reserve University students are stepping far beyond the classroom—into hospitals and research labs, startups and advocacy organizations, engineering firms and art studios. What unites their experiences is not ambition, but intention. From designing solutions for healthcar...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the summer 2025 edition of art/sci. Read more from this issue. When David Gerdes interviewed to be chair of the University of Michigan’s physics department, no one asked how he’d handle campus repercussions from a global crisis. But 13 months into ...

Before beginning graduate school, Regan Gee took a gap year to get to know her local community on a different level. To do that, she decided to participate in the AmeriCorps VISTA program, where she had the opportunity to teach at a primarily Indigenous-serving K-8 school near where she grew up in t...

Jane Kessler (GRS ’51, psychology), a longtime Case Western Reserve University faculty member who retired in the 1990s, passed away July 21 at the age of 104. Kessler, a leader in child psychology, was on the faculty for more than 40 years before retiring as the Lucy Adams Leffingwell Distinguished...

What can ancient moon rocks tell us about the origins of Earth, the future of space travel, and even the water we drink? At Case Western Reserve University, professor and geochemist Jim Van Orman is digging into those questions—literally—by analyzing material brought back from the moon. His researc...