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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 16, 2024
In September 2020, Robert Boyce went from a weight room to an operating room in mere hours. Then a 16-year-old sophomore at St. Ignatius High School, Boyce suffered a rare, life-threatening stroke called a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Facing severe bleeding and concerns about further swelling of…
April 15, 2024
The Department of Anthropology is pleased to present the 2024 Applying Anthropology to Real-World Problems lecture by Dr. Christina Wasson (University of North Texas). Her presentation, “The Participatory Design of Indigenous Heritage Archives,” will take place Saturday, April 18, at 4 p.m., in…
April 12, 2024
Case Western Reserve University Department of Music students Matthew Smutny and Charlie Apy, were selected for the prestigious College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) North Central Intercollegiate Band. Smutny and Apy were selected from a competitive cohort of music majors across seven…
April 11, 2024
The Department of Anthropology will host Christina Wasson from the University of North Texas for the 2024 Applying Anthropology to Real World Problems Lecture. Wasson will present “The Participatory Design of Indigenous Heritage Archives” Thursday, April 18, at 4 p.m. in Mather Memorial…
April 10, 2024
The Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve University will host its final production of the 2023–24 season, “Imagatorium,” April 18–20. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. The production will feature original works by second-year graduate students Claire Christie, Mikayla Heinrich-Wong and…
April 09, 2024
Methodology changes lead to range of shifts in newest rankings
April 05, 2024
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to watch the local premieres of three recent Italian films and one short film program at the 2024 Italian Film Festival USA of Cleveland. Free and open to all, the screenings will be held in the Strosacker Auditorium at 7 p.m.…
April 04, 2024
The Department of Anthropology will host a talk by Ishani Dasgupta, the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities in Leadership Learning Series (HILLS) at Case Western Reserve University. Dasgupta will present “To Starve, to Strike, To Mobilize: Hunger Strikes and National Mobilization…
April 02, 2024
One in 36 children in the United States have Autism Spectrum Disorder according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the growing number of diagnoses allows for more visibility but can also include some misconceptions. With April being Autism Awareness Month—and April 2 being…
April 02, 2024
The Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics welcomes Persi Diaconis to keynote the second annual Elizabeth S. Meckes Memorial Lecture on Friday, April 5, at 12:45 p.m. Diaconis, a professor of statistics at Stanford University, will give a lecture on “The Mathematics of…