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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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October 08, 2021
Simone de Beauvoir is best known for The Second Sex, but also published a four-part memoir that stands as a chronicle of post-war French intellectual culture. The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a talk with Laura Hengehold, professor in the Department of Philosophy, examining…
October 08, 2021
Lydia Kisley didn’t always want to be a scientist. Now the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor in the Departments of Physics and Chemistry, Kisley once considered a career in music education, having considered band to be her favorite subject in high school. “I didn’t even take physics in high…
October 06, 2021
The Department of Physics will host a lecture with XIaoxing Xi, the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Physics at Temple University and winner of the 2020 Sakharov Prize of the American Physical Society, Thursday, Oct. 7, from 4 to 5 p.m. Xi will present “Crackdown on Academic Collaboration with China…
October 05, 2021
The College of Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with the Dittrick Museum of Medical History, invites all members of the campus community to the 2021 Zverina Lecture, titled “Made in Cleveland: The Kay-Cross Oxygenator and the history of heart-lung machines,” Saturday, Oct. 23, from 11 a.m. to…
October 04, 2021
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a “Faculty Work-in-Progress” lecture featuring Chris Haufe, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy. In his talk “Of Interest,” Haufe will examine the role that “interestingness” plays in research in the sciences and humanities. He…
October 04, 2021
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a “Graduate Work-in-Progress” presentation about French romance music in the 19th century, given by Nathan Dougherty, PhD candidate in the Department of Music. In his presentation "Closing the Wound: Memory and Clinical Nostalgia in the…
September 28, 2021
Case Western Reserve scientist investigates adaptation of ancient South American mammals that reveals contrarian changes and challenges evolutionary assumptions A Case Western Reserve University scientist has found that certain prehistoric horse-like mammals in South America evolved differently…
September 22, 2021
As a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Jim Sheeler penned evocative articles about lives lost and loved ones left behind. As a Case Western Reserve professor, he inspired undergraduates to recognize the possibilities in their own lives—and to seize them. Today, all who knew Sheeler through his…
September 17, 2021
Shane Cooley Shane Cooley (CWR ‘21) is the lead author on a new study titled “Microhabitat partitioning is driven by preferences, not competition, in two Costa Rican millipede species,” published in the Journal of Tropical Ecology. Cooley’s conducted his research as part of a study abroad course…
September 17, 2021
Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long professor of world affairs, discussed industrial interests in Arctic natural resources during a conference on “The Dynamics of a Changing Arctic,” hosted by the Royal Danish Foreign Policy Society. In August, Lavelle presented her lecture, titled…