College of Arts and Sciences

Bethany Westphal As a child, Bethany Westphal recalls listening to the music of Bruce Springsteen’s The E Street Band with her mom and falling in love with one aspect in particular: the soulful sounds of Clarence Clemons’ saxophone. Today, she’s a saxophonist herself—and she’s putting her talents t...

The Department of Physics will host Julia Gehrlein, assistant professor of physics at Colorado State University, for a series of lectures this week as the winner of this year’s Michelson Postdoctoral Prize. Gehrlein's interests center on the most elusive particles of the universe: neutrinos. She wo...

Megan Gregory When Megan Gregory (CWR ’23) was 2 years old, she took part in an experience that would shape her career goals: her first ballet class. In the 20 years to follow, Gregory learned and performed dance styles ranging from jazz to lyrical, eventually enrolling at Case Western Reserve Un...

Fifteen years ago as a graduate student, Maggie Popkin, the Robson Junior Professor and associate professor of art history, visited a small Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. There, she formed lasting friendships that she’s maintained throughout her career. This summer, Popkin returned to th...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join the Department of Music for a talk titled “Lead with Love: The Non-Religious Spirituality of Voices 21C” Friday, Sept. 15, at 4 p.m. Christopher Clark, director of choirs and full-time lecturer in music education, will di...

Shunté Lofton was first captivated by William Shakespeare’s work when watching Baz Luhrmann's 1996 film, Romeo + Juliet. If you ask her, not many in the theater world share her love of this version of the classic tragedy, yet it’s what started her personal journey in theater. That journey continues...

In 1631, the English clergyman William Slatyer published Psalmes, or Songs of Sion, a collection of 45 new psalm paraphrases in verse. That he specified popular tunes for singing them, however, was regarded as “scandalous,” and the reaction was swift and decisive. Prelates of the Church of England i...

Elina Gertsman’s interest in medieval art history may have developed, as she says, “simply by osmosis.” Growing up in Tallinn, Estonia, Gertsman was constantly surrounded by what she calls a “preternatural” beauty of this medieval town. As an art student she painted on its streets; when she was a k...

Elliot Posner, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, recently co-authored an article published in the European Journal of Political Research alongside Lucia Quaglia from the University of Bologna. Their paper, titled “Financial Regulatory Conundrums in the North Atlantic,” exp...

After making landfall in Florida Wednesday morning at Category 3 strength, Hurricane Idalia was described as “violent,” “catastrophic,” and even “apocalyptic.” The storm knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people, halted air travel, prompted evacuations, sparked flash flooding and even tu...