College of Arts and Sciences

Pavel Fileviez Perez, associate professor in the Department of Physics, will be a convener at the American Physical Society's Snowmass 2021. The event is held every 10 years with scientists from around the world, allowing them to identify the most pressing issues in the field of particle physics. H...

Timothy Beal, chair of the Department of Religious Studies and the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, recently participated in an episode of the Unholier than Thou podcast, which is produced by Crooked Media. The episode is titled "Apocalypse Now?" and explores how speculations of an apocalyp...

Kathryn C. Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, presented a paper for the annual meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System in June. Originally planned to be held in London, the conference was changed to a virtual format due to the pandemic. In the paper,...

Alumnus’s research into a 1918 pandemic helps shape public understanding today This article first appeared in a summer publication related to the university’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More articles will appear in The Daily and on the university and school social media accounts in upcoming...

Case Western Reserve University will offer a new bachelor of science degree in neuroscience beginning fall semester 2020. Developed jointly by the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Neurosciences in the School of Medicine, the undergraduate program is hig...

Mark Hornyak, an undergraduate student taking Japanese classes, competed in the 2020 Ohio Japanese Speech Contest online April 5. Hornyak won first place in the college-level category with his speech titled “Military Rations: The Taste of a Nation.” Undergraduate students Yinfeng Xia and Yuhan Xia ...

Steven Ciampaglia—an artist and scholar specializing in arts education and issues of equity and social justice—has been named the Champney Family Associate Professor in Art. The endowed position is shared jointly by the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) and Case Western Reserve University. The pos...

In ranking Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s International Law Program among the top 10 in the nation, PreLaw Magazine recognized the law school’s funded internships as its secret to placing so many of its graduates in the field of international law. Every summer, 30 or so Case Wester...

From a young age, Joy K. Ward, the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, knew science would be her calling. By the time she was 7 years old, Ward was already collecting interesting specimens from the forest near her home and looking at cells through her father’s microscope. As a senior in hi...

Stephen E. Hefling, professor emeritus of music at the College of Arts and Sciences, edited a new edition of Gustav Mahler's Titan, which was recently honored by the German Music Publishers' Association. The edition was selected from more than 7,000 entrants for a 2020 "Best Edition" prize. Read m...