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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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October 04, 2024
Case Western Reserve University faculty and students in the Department of Classics at the College of Arts and Sciences recently attended the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Ohio Classical Conference Columbus Academy in Gahanna, Ohio. During this two-day event, faculty and students in the fields of…
October 01, 2024
Case Western Reserve University is cultivating a new generation of scientists with the opening of its 30,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art biology laboratory classrooms and collaborative spaces. As part of Parent and Family Weekend (Sept. 27-29), President Eric W. Kaler, Deputy Provost Lee…
September 24, 2024
Brendan Silva’s research is personal. As a United States Army veteran who served from 2016 to 2020, Silva saw firsthand the toll combat can have on soldiers’ mental health. Now, after transfering to Case Western Reserve University in early 2023, Silva is a senior studying…
September 20, 2024
Modern artificial intelligence (AI) can produce text and images so realistic that it’s sometimes hard to distinguish them from human creations. How does it do that? Surprisingly, AI is powered by elementary school math, such as addition and multiplication. The Department of Mathematics, Applied…
September 16, 2024
Postdoctoral fellow Tobias Mistele’s research is expanding our understanding of galaxies, dark matter and modified gravity. But Mistele, who came to Case Western Reserve University from Germany, wouldn’t be doing this work if he hadn’t gotten “sidetracked” after initially training as a theoretical…
September 13, 2024
Kathryn C. Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs in the Department of Political Science at the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently among the collaborators on a volume of Constructing Global Challenges in World Politics (NY: Routledge, 2024). The book’s contributors,…
September 12, 2024
School photo day: A tradition amongst school children throughout generations. Many Case Western Reserve University faculty and staff remember the days of picking out just the right outfit to wear and hoping they didn’t have a poorly timed bad hair day. Afterall, those photos were featured in…
September 09, 2024
Case Western Reserve research explores statistical mysteries of everyday tasks, from Doodle polls to efficient scheduling In a world where organizing a simple meeting can feel like herding cats, new research from Case Western Reserve University reveals just how challenging finding a suitable…
September 06, 2024
Amman Spencer has two goals for this year—being accepted to medical school and increasing student feedback and involvement at Case Western Reserve University. On the first front, he’s enrolled in courses on nutritional biochemistry and metabolism, further honing his academic background to support…
August 29, 2024
As an international student more than 6,000 miles from home, Nivedita Srinivasan arrived at Case Western Reserve three years ago knowing no one. While she expected to meet new friends and share experiences with her roommates, she never dreamt they'd show her the same depth of love and support her…