
College of Arts and Sciences
Interdisciplinary research, collaboratives and achievements define the Case Western Reserve University College of Arts and Sciences’ community—across countless disciplines. From literary awards and scientific discoveries to stories of social impact and student innovation, the College of Arts and Sciences is where bold ideas become newsworthy moments.

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Stellar minds: CWRU women astronomers map universe’s mysteries
Celebrating Women Astronomers Day featuring women astrophysicists on the faculty
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February 05, 2021
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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February 05, 2021
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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February 05, 2021
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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February 02, 2021
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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January 28, 2021
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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January 22, 2021
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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January 22, 2021
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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January 22, 2021
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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January 12, 2021
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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January 04, 2021
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 ...