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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 26, 2022
The Center for Policy Studies will host a talk with U.S. scholar and security expert Dmitry Gorenburg Thursday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., in Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom C. In this talk, titled “Russia's Military,” Gorenburg will discuss the Russian military’s tactics and plans in Ukraine…
October 25, 2022
Majors: Electrical engineering, computer engineeringMinor: FrenchYear: Fourth year In high school, Grace Wilcox came across her childhood Nintendo DS while cleaning out her closet and felt inspired to repair it. Thinking a fuse had blown, Wilcox went through the trouble of finding a replacement on…
October 24, 2022
Join the CWRU Chamber Collective (Wind 9tet, CWRU Brass Ensemble and CWRU Clarinet Choir) for a performance at the Maltz Performing Arts Center Thursday, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. The various ensembles will play works by Gioachino Rossini, George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky and more. This free event…
October 21, 2022
Fall break offers not only a chance to rest and recharge after midterms, but an opportunity to look ahead to the spring semester and start planning out the perfect course load. Course registration for undergraduates begins Nov. 14, and some graduate students can register even earlier. To make sure…
October 21, 2022
Undergraduate student Nihal Manjila won the nationally competitive Lynn W. Turner Prize for best paper by an undergraduate member of Phi Alpha Theta for a paper titled “Substance of Joy: Serotonin Research at Cleveland Clinic, 1948-1968.” Jonathan Sadowsky, chair of the Department of History and…
October 21, 2022
Alumni couple commits $1.2 million to establish the Henderson Family Fund Marjorie and Norman Henderson in 2005 Norman Henderson, PhD (GRS ‘60, ‘61, psychology), remembers clearly the moment he decided to study psychology. It was 1958, just a few months before he was supposed to begin his senior…
October 21, 2022
Lee Hoffer, associate professor of anthropology, recently received funding for two new projects. The first project, “Understanding psylocibin (‘magic mushrooms’) in the context of the modern ‘psychedelic renaissance’”, received funding by the College of Arts and Sciences’ “Expanding Horizons…
October 21, 2022
October is Filipino American History Month, which commemorates the first recorded presence of Filipinos in the continental United States. To learn more about Filipino culture, The Daily is putting the spotlight on Filipino American members of the Case Western Reserve University community to…
October 20, 2022
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Graduate Work-in-Progress lecture with Samuel Nemeth, PhD candidate in the Department of Music, Tuesday, Nov. 1, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Nemeth will present “Battle of the Bands: Instruments, Mechanical Cultures, and Sonic…
October 18, 2022
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to the Case Men's Glee Club and University Chorale Concert Thursday, Oct. 20, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Harkness Chapel. This concert will feature the University Chorale, a campuswide treble ensemble, and the Case Men's Glee Club,…