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Student Satya Moolani highlighted in article by Senior Transportation Connection
Student Satya Moolani was recently featured in an article posted by Senior Transportation Connection. The article, titled “Student Studies Transportation and Social Isolation,” highlighted Moolani’s research project conducted on transportation in American life and how his grandmother inspired him to...
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Spartan Showcase: Hannah Xu
Major: PsychologyYear: Senior Before this summer, Hannah Xu had only ever considered philanthropy to be a straightforward process: funders raising money for grantees in need. Thanks to a summer internship with Social Venture Partners (SVP) Cleveland, a local resource (part of a larger internatio...
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Christopher Clark to become director of choirs, music education lecturer
Christopher Clark will join the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Music this fall as director of choirs and full-time lecturer in music education. He will direct the Case Concert Choir and Case Men’s Glee Club, teach vocal skills and pedagogy, and mentor students in choral m...
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Spartan Showcase: Colin Hawkinson
Major: ClassicsMinor: Bioethics For many high school students and adult learners, figuring out how to attend college can be a daunting task. Case Western Reserve student Colin Hawkinson understands this—and is helping students and their families in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District navigat...
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Recognizing excellence in teaching: Lisa Nielson earns Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award
In 2008, the Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award was established to honor distinguished teaching in the SAGES program, part of Case Western Reserve’s current core undergraduate curriculum. Each year, students are invited to nominate their instructors who go above and beyond both in and out of the classroom...
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History’s Renee Sentilles selected for Mather Center’s Higher Education Resource Services Leadership Institute registration award
Renee Sentilles, the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, will attend the Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Leadership Institute through the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women’s registration award. Sentilles specializes in American women’s history...
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Bharat Ranganathan selected for Paul Ramsey Fellowship
For Bharat Ranganathan, academia has been a long-standing passion. After graduating from Case Western Reserve University, Harvard University and Indiana University with a bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD, respectively, he pursued a career in ethics, most recently returning to CWRU as the Elmer G. Beame...
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Research team writes perspective paper published in Journal of Applied Physics
An united “perspective paper” by a team of Case Western Reserve University researchers was recently published and chosen as an editor’s pick by the Journal of Applied Physics. Published in June and titled “Ultrathin 2D-oxides: A perspective on fabrication, structure, defect, transport, electron, a...
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Art history’s Henry Adams pens biography on midcentury American artist Adolf Dehn
Adolf Dehn belongs to a group of distinguished midcentury American artists who were eclipsed by abstract expressionism and the following movements in American art. His lithographs of the “roaring twenties” introduced a note of social satire into American printmaking. He was one of the most gifted an...
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Art history’s Elina Gertsman explores empty space in Gothic art in new book
Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II and professor of art history, penned a new book, recently published by Penn State University Press. The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books is the result of Gertsman’s the American Council of Learned Societies fell...