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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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November 09, 2020
The College of Arts and Sciences, Case School of Engineering and Post-Graduate Planning and Experiential Education are pleased to host the third event in the Alumni Insight Speaker Series. A discussion titled “Embracing Change” will be held Monday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. In this conversation, alumni…
November 06, 2020
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous fields experienced a rapid shift to virtual operations. For the health care sector, that shift resulted in difficulty accessing routine care from health care professionals, particularly for senior citizens and low-income citizens who may not have…
November 06, 2020
Deepak Sarma, professor of religious studies at the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of bioethics at the School of Medicine, recently wrote an article titled "Volunteering for a Covid Vaccine Trial: Fulfilling Hindu Obligations or Fostering Pharmaceutical Company Profits?" Published by…
October 30, 2020
Gillian Weiss, associate professor of history, co-wrote an article with New York University art historian Meredith Martin and New York-based graphic designer Bonnie Siegler for History News Network. In their piece—titled "Trump: Superhero or Superspreader?"—they wrote about a medal recently…
October 29, 2020
The Department of Dance's performance series, "Nouveaux Espaces," will kick off Sunday, Nov. 1, with a new work by faculty member Gary Galbraith. "Spaces and Places" is a video dance project that will take viewers outside the "boxes of dancers" often seen in virtual projects since last…
October 23, 2020
Aliah Lawson (left) and Anaiya Manuel (right) For seniors Aliah Lawson and Anaiya Manuel, racial injustices are both lived experiences and a topic of their studies at Case Western Reserve University. And earlier this year when protests were held across the country to challenge these systemic…
October 16, 2020
Case Western Reserve University Department of Physics Professors Harsh Mathur and Giuseppe Strangi were recently elected fellows to two of the leading physics societies in the United States and throughout the world. Harsh Mathur The American Physical Society (APS) elected Mathur a fellow for his…
October 16, 2020
Case Western Reserve University faculty member Stacy Williams was elected a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Williams also is COO of a leading online continuing education company, and founder and CEO of Simucase, an online simulation learning platform. ASHA…
October 14, 2020
The College of Arts and Sciences, Case School of Engineering and Post-Graduate Planning and Experiential Education are collaborating to host a four-part Alumni Insight Speaker Series. The series will feature honest conversations with alumni as they share their stories about getting started…
October 12, 2020
The College of Arts and Sciences, Case School of Engineering and Post-Graduate Planning and Experiential Education are collaborating to sponsor a four-part Alumni Insight Speaker Series. The series will feature honest conversations with alumni as they share their stories about getting started…