College of Arts and Sciences

Alan Rocke, Distinguished University Professor and the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, was named co-recipient of the Franklin-Lavoisier Prize. Co-sponsored by the Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie in Paris and the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, th...

Students from the Class of 2020 in the College of Arts and Sciences took home top honors from the Office of Undergraduate Studies and School of Graduate Studies. Undergraduate Studies Anthropology The Callender Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in anthropology: Emma McCannThe Jonathan F....

Receiving a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Maddalena Rumor will work on a manuscript for a book currently titled Dreckapotheke in Ancient Mesopotamia and the Graeco-Roman World. Rumor is the only scholar associ...

When fourth-year PhD physics student Allen Foster arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica in early January for a 10-month research assignment, he had no idea that the rest of the world soon would be hit by a global pandemic. With no flights in or out since early February, the ...

Elizabeth Bolman’s original end-of-semester plans called for the art historian to be in the midst of research trips: After Cyprus and Ethiopia, she was set to deliver a lecture in Egypt about her work there on landmark projects—the conservation and documentation of four holy Coptic (Egyptian Christi...

Elizabeth Short, professor of psychological sciences, was lead author of a study about the role of language in children’s play. The study explored how children who have various developmental disabilities (ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, and language delay) played compared to their peers of typical ...

Rita Obeid, full-time lecturer in the Department of Psychological Sciences, recently co-wrote a paper exploring the relationship between racial bias and autism identification. The paper, published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, builds on research showing minority populatio...

Kevin Inouye, assistant professor of theater, recently had a book published titled The Screen Combat Handbook. The book uses practical instruction, examples, interviews and illustrations to show how effective fight sequences can be put on-screen. Inouye includes sections on pre-production planning, ...

Brian Gran, professor in the Department of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University, has been selected as a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Jefferson Science Fellow (JSF) by the U.S. Department of State. During his year-long fellowship, Gran, who has secondary appointment...

Gillian Weiss, associate professor in the Department of History, co-wrote a piece with Meredith Martin of New York University examining artwork during the Great Plague. The piece, titled “The Art of Plague and Panic: Marseille, 1720” and published in Platform, outlines the relationship between artwo...