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Mathematics’ Elisabeth Werner co-organized the trimester program at Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics
Elisabeth Werner, professor in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, co-organized the trimester program "The Interplay between High-Dimensional Geometry and Probability.” The program, held at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, will last th...
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Physics’ Lydia Kisley writes piece published in Langmuir
Lydia Kisley, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, co-authored a piece titled "Real-Time Measurement of Polymer Brush Dynamics Using Silicon Photonic Microring Resonators: Analyte Partitioning and Interior Brush Kinetics." The paper, published in the journal Langmuir...
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Philosophy’s Jeremy Bendik-Keymer has symposium published by Studia Philosophica Wratislavensia
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics, had a symposium published by the University of Wroclaw surrounding his work. Based around Bendik-Keymer’s ideas on the politics of wonder, the symposium was published in English by Studia Philosophica Wratislavensia, the philosophy jour...
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Spartan Showcase: Phuong Nguyen
Major: BiochemistryYear: First-year First-year student Phuong Nguyen wasted no time in getting involved at Case Western Reserve University—and she did it all while studying remotely from her home in Maryland. Nguyen first got involved with the Physical Resource Center when she learned about it th...
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Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Gheorghe D. Mateescu passes away at 92
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Gheorghe D. Mateescu passed away Friday, Jan. 22, at the age of 92. Mateescu was born in Pitesti, Romania, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1967 to receive his PhD from Case Western Reserve University under Professor G. Olah. He spent the following 53 years in the Depart...
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Law’s Jonathan Entin writes about pollsters’ inaccurate predictions
Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and adjunct professor of political science, weighed in on what led to pollsters being off in predictions for the 2020 election. Entin’s piece, published on cleveland.com and titled “Shakespeare and those inaccurate polls,” called upon r...
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5 questions with... Damaris Punales-Alpizar, chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and associate professor of Hispanic studies
As chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures since August 2020, Damaris Punales-Alpizar has been laser-focused on raising the profile of the department, which she considers to be the multicultural epicenter of Case Western Reserve University. “We cover languages and cultures from ...
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Anthropology’s Lihong Shi writes about parents in China whose only child has passed away
Lihong Shi, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote an op-ed published by Sixth Tone, a digital English publication in China. Her piece described the grief faced by Chinese parents who have lost their only child. Five years after China ended ...
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Spartan Showcase: Gautham Chitturu and Will Schwartzman
Year: SeniorsMajors: Neuroscience and healthcare management (Chitturu); biomedical engineering (Schwartzman)Minors: Chemistry and economics (Chitturu); sociology (Schwartzman) As individuals in Ohio began receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, two Case Western Reserve students penned an op-ed for clevelan...
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National Science Foundation funds study on human rights suspensions enacted to battle COVID-19
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant to Case Western Reserve University to examine instances of governments suspending human rights in the name of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will aim to raise awareness of human rights violations ...