College of Arts and Sciences

General auditions for the fall Department of Theater productions will take place from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 30, in the Roe Green Theater at the Maltz Performing Arts Center. Fall shows will be The Moors by Jen Silverman and Electra by Sophocles (translation by Anne Carson). Undergraduate the...

Few people can say they've been part of one of the most highly regarded art displays in the world. But now, eight Case Western Reserve University art history students can add the accomplishment to their résumés. Through the class "Issues in 20th/21st Century Art: Plastocene Era: Art, Plastics and ...

Margaret Fischer came of age during President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s terms in the White House in the late 1950s. During that time, as she recalls, women were expected to become housewives who led lives supported by their husbands. “Somehow that wasn’t the path I felt I was mapped out to take,” she ...

Cassi Pittman Claytor, associate professor in the Department of Sociology, was recently awarded the A. Wade Smith Award for Teaching, Mentoring, and Service from the Association of Black Sociologists. Pittman Claytor was selected as a result of her work helping African American individuals launch ...

Serena Wheeler’s first encounter with the communication sciences field was through her brother, who has autism and works with a speech-language pathologist. But despite this early, personal connection to the field, Wheeler didn’t initially consider it as a career. Instead, she came to Case Western R...

Fey Parrill, professor of cognitive science, and PhD student Jeffrey J. Shymanski recently had their work published in Applied Cognitive Psychology. Alongside collaborator Susan Wagner Cook, an associate professor at the University of Iowa, Parrill and Shymanski wrote an article titled “Using the h...

The Case Western Reserve University community is mourning the loss of staff member Amad Awadallah, who died July 22. He was 50. Awadallah got his start at the university as an undergraduate student in the fall of 1991. During that time, he worked as a work study student in the Caplan Lab, housed w...

The summer break from classes offers college students an opportunity to learn more about their fields of interest, gain practical experiences and create connections that may lead to job offers after graduation. Case Western Reserve students are using this time to explore roles as diverse as wildern...

The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will host a summer book discussion on Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses Tuesday, Aug. 22, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Landmark Centre Building (25700 Science Park Drive, Suite 100, Beachwood). Steve Pinkerton, English lecturer at CWRU, will lead this discus...

Though decades have passed since the Space Race took place, Earth’s moon remains the only place beyond our planet where humans have set foot. As the brightest and largest object in our night sky, the moon causes tides that create a rhythm—one that has guided humans for thousands of years. The moon...