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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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March 15, 2022
Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Play House's Master of Fine Arts Acting Program will present the Ohio premiere of Christopher Chen’s Passage, an engrossing play that will keep the audience in suspense until the end. Passage is about a friendship between two people that is challenged…
March 01, 2022
Chances are, you’ve had days where things don’t seem to be going your way—but then you receive a compliment from someone that turns your day around. While compliments may seem simple, they can have a large impact on you and the people around you, creating a ripple of positivity. But why is…
March 01, 2022
The Department of Theater at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Play House Master of Fine Arts Acting Program will present the Ohio premiere of Christopher Chen's Passage, an engrossing play that will keep the audience in suspense until the end. Passage is about a friendship between…
February 28, 2022
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to a panel discussion titled “Russia's War in Ukraine” with Case Western Reserve University faculty members. Set to take place Wednesday, March 2, at 4 p.m. via Zoom, the event will feature the following panelists: David…
February 25, 2022
With a goal to catalyze entrepreneurial ideas through education and training, venture creation and connecting people, the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship has announced the inaugural cohort of Veale Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows: Brian Gran, professor, Department of Sociology, College of…
February 24, 2022
As Black History Month continues, The Daily is putting a spotlight on some of Case Western Reserve University’s incredible Black faculty members. As leaders in their fields, they share salient—and often groundbreaking—work in books, journals, media outlets and, of course, enlightening courses.…
February 18, 2022
The College Art Association of America (CAA) recently named Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II, the winner of its Charles Rufus Morey Book Award for her book The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (Penn State University Press, 2021). The Charles…
February 14, 2022
The Cold War ended 30 years ago, but the risks posed by nuclear weapons have grown, not receded. In response, the American Physical Society has supported the formation of a Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction, of which Frank von Hippel, professor of science and global security at Princeton, is a…
February 11, 2022
Lydia Kisley Lydia Kisley, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Physics, and her small, interdisciplinary team of Scialog Fellows were awarded $55,000 each to pursue their project, “Stretching reality to discover the (un)knowns.” Together, Kisley, Ronit Freeman, associate professor of applied…
February 11, 2022
Case Western Reserve University chemical engineering PhD students win three brewing categories at professional conference in Boston Two teams of Case Western Reserve University chemical engineering PhD students recently walked away with a trio of top awards in a competition with dozens of other…