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Inside an audiology lab, where Lauren Calandruccio investigates multilingual hearing behavior in noisy environments
Editor’s note: Jasmine Vo, the author of this story, is a student employee in the University Marketing and Communications department. She is a fourth-year student majoring in communication sciences. While working as a clinical audiologist, Lauren Calandruccio realized how many unknowns remain in…
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August 06, 2025
Ambrose Swasey Associate Professor, Departments of Physics and Chemistry Area of Focus: Microscopy and materials science—finding new ways to examine things at a small scale to fundamentally understand them. Lydia Kisley is eager for an opportunity to talk about her research, even if it’s…
August 05, 2025
The Air Force ROTC program offered an opportunity Kalli Wall couldn’t pass up. She joined the program as a first-year student at Case Western Reserve University because she knew it would lead her to a unique career path. Now a rising fourth-year majoring in chemistry, Wall is getting a…
August 01, 2025
The university community mourns the loss of David Schiraldi, the Peter A. Asseff PhD Professor Emeritus of Organic Chemistry and professor emeritus of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, who passed away July 13. A former chair of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, he…
August 01, 2025
Celebrating Women Astronomers Day featuring women astrophysicists on the faculty
July 31, 2025
This summer, Case Western Reserve University students are stepping far beyond the classroom—into hospitals and research labs, startups and advocacy organizations, engineering firms and art studios. What unites their experiences is not ambition, but intention. From designing solutions for…
July 29, 2025
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the summer 2025 edition of art/sci. Read more from this issue. When David Gerdes interviewed to be chair of the University of Michigan’s physics department, no one asked how he’d handle campus repercussions from a global crisis. But 13 months…
July 29, 2025
Before beginning graduate school, Regan Gee took a gap year to get to know her local community on a different level. To do that, she decided to participate in the AmeriCorps VISTA program, where she had the opportunity to teach at a primarily Indigenous-serving K-8 school near where she grew up in…
July 24, 2025
Jane Kessler (GRS ’51, psychology), a longtime Case Western Reserve University faculty member who retired in the 1990s, passed away July 21 at the age of 104. Kessler, a leader in child psychology, was on the faculty for more than 40 years before retiring as the Lucy Adams Leffingwell…
July 18, 2025
What can ancient moon rocks tell us about the origins of Earth, the future of space travel, and even the water we drink? At Case Western Reserve University, professor and geochemist Jim Van Orman is digging into those questions—literally—by analyzing material brought back from the moon. His…
July 17, 2025
Editor’s note: Hero photo captured by Nicholas McLaughlin. This article originally appeared in the summer 2025 edition of art/sci. Read more from this issue. Cara Byrne has immersed herself in the world of children’s literature for the past decade, studying how stories shape perceptions of race,…