College of Arts and Sciences

Where other people see rocks, geologist Beverly Saylor, PhD, sees a story. And not just any story—our story, the story of life on Earth. Saylor, the Armington Professor focusing on stratigraphy and sedimentology at Case Western Reserve University, sees traces of the world as it once was, millions o...

Blanton S. Tolbert Blanton S. Tolbert, professor of chemistry at the College of Arts and Sciences, and his research group study the basic biochemistry of viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Since he was in graduate school, he has worked on the biological molecule RNA, rib...

The Department of English will host a featured speaker event with author Claudia Rankine as a fundraiser for the Frederica Ward Memorial Scholarship Friday, Feb. 26, from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. Rankine is the author of: Five books of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lo...

The Anthropology Student Association (ASA) and Department of Anthropology will host a film watch party today (Feb. 18) to celebrate Anthropology Day. The film, The Anthropologist, will be streamed live on Zoom from 5:30 to 7 p.m. EST. The film will be followed by a student-led panel and informal d...

Majors: Psychology and cognitive scienceYear: Fourth year Nehal Methi’s academic pursuits and service activities center on kindness, compassion and care. Majoring in psychology and cognitive science, Methi has her sights set on a career working as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. She's spent he...

Spencier Ciaralli, a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, was awarded a $20,000 American Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The AAUW empowers women and girls through research, education and advocacy. Over the past 132 years, the organization has provide...

The Department of Sociology will host a talk titled “Examining the Health Consequences of Race, Skin Color, and School Context” Friday, Feb. 26, at 12:30 p.m. Taylor Hargrove, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give the presentation. Hargrove’s research ...

According to data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), only about 30% of female students globally choose to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)-related fields in higher education. The reason? UNESCO suggests “long-standing bia...

Join Case Western Reserve University Department of Theater for a free online presentation of its first show of the season: a staged reading of The Liar. David Ives’ ‘translaptation’ of this 17th century comedy blends Elizabethan-style verse and modern language, relishing in its own rhyming word gam...

The Program in Cell Biology at the School of Medicine and the Department of Physics at the College of Arts and Sciences will host the annual “The 2020 Nobel Prizes in Science: What Were They Given For?” symposium today (Feb. 11) from 4 to 5 p.m. Attendees will learn about the research that earned t...