College of Arts and Sciences

Donald E. Schuele, the Albert A. Michelson Professor Emeritus of Physics, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 19, from issues related to COVID-19. Schuele received his doctorate degree in physics from the Case Institute of Technology in 1963 and soon after began teaching at his alma mater. In 1976, he to...

Case Western Reserve this week is mourning the passing of Elizabeth Meckes, a professor of mathematics renowned worldwide for her brilliance—and beloved on campus for her compassion. An undergraduate alumna who earned her doctorate at Stanford in 2006 and became a full professor here in 2018, Mecke...

With a $2,028,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Case Western Reserve University will establish a training program for humanities faculty and graduate students that promotes equity and diversity in academic leadership. The four-year award will fund a new Humanities in Leadership Learni...

Years: Fourth-yearsMajors: Biology and sociology (Kiana Loo) and political science and sociology (Vanessa Pilatova) For fourth-year students Kiana Loo and Vanessa Pilatova, volunteer work and community involvement have been key themes during their time at Case Western Reserve University. In fact, t...

Jay Geller, the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and professor of history at the College of Arts and Sciences, was the subject of a broadcast on Deutschlandfunk, a German national public radio station. Geller discussed the Scholem family, which was the subject of his book The Scholems: ...

Heather McKee Hurwitz, lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently had a book published titled Are We the 99%?: The Occupy Movement, Feminism, and Intersectionality. Through the book, she explored inequality, activism and intersectional feminism amidst radic...

Program: Master of Public Health and Bachelor of Arts in BiochemistryYear: Senior As a child, not only did Nicole Renee Palmer learn to read from a student encyclopedia of human anatomy—it’s where her awareness of our collective similarities first dawned. “I remember staring at a photo from the in...

Case Western Reserve University College of Arts and Sciences Dean Joy K. Ward and School of Medicine Professor Dana Crawford have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Ward is a longtime evolutionary biologist and climate scientist who became dean Jul...

The Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House Master of Fine Arts Acting Program will host an online production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot this week, featuring the program’s Class of 2022. Written by Pulitzer Prize Award-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis, this play takes the audience o...

Emmitt Jolly with his plaque for winning Tuskegee University’s College of Arts and Sciences 2020 Most Distinguished Alumni Award Emmitt Jolly, an associate professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University, grew up in Alabama, just 20 miles from Tuskegee University. As a teenager, he worked a...