College of Arts and Sciences

Thrity Umrigar, associate professor of English, won a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian General Fiction category for her novel, The World We Found. Umrigar's novel was published in early 2012 and received high acclaim from various major news outlets. It tells the story of four students in India ...

Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández, an assistant professor of chemistry, won a National Science Foundation CAREER award to investigate how compounds found in human cells and medicines trigger DNA mutations that can damage cells and lead to skin cancer when exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Crespo, who...

Jenifer Neils knew she wanted to be an archaeologist in the third grade after she read about field archaeology pioneer Heinrich Schliemann—a man whose work advocated the idea that Homer’s Iliad reflected actual historical events. She hasn’t looked back since. After graduating from Bryn Mawr, Neils w...

About one of every two people diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also suffer symptoms of depression, according to new research by Case Western Reserve University Department of Psychological Sciences. The analysis also concludes that both genders diagnosed with PTSD equally suffer f...

Julia Brown-Allen, graduate coordinator in the biology department at Case Western Reserve University, is also Pastor Julia Brown-Allen, a founder of Cleveland’s Integrated Faith Assembly, who has reached out into the streets and shelters to help homeless and battered women and their children for mor...

Jay Geller, the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies, will give the keynote lecture at the annual conference of the University College London's Institute of Jewish Studies on June 17. This year's subject of the conference is the life and work of Gershom Scholem, one the leading Jewish think...

Professor Ron Wilson has received praise throughout his career as an actor, director, playwright, fight choreographer, musician and teacher. Now, he’s gaining fame—or infamy, as he calls it—as an artist, due to the recent attention his drawings received on the popular website Reddit. Work by Wilson...

Case Western Reserve University political scientist Karen Beckwith received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to the United Kingdom. She will spend six months next year in Scotland and attend political science meetings in England and Spain. Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor of Pol...

Nicole Pucci remembers what it felt like to not fit in during middle school. “No one feels like they belong. It is an awkward stage where you are trying to figure out how to relate to others.” Amy Przeworski reached her adult height of 5 feet 9 inches in sixth grade and struggled to blend in with c...

An accomplished organist, Alanna Ropchock’s performances for religious services and festivals fueled a curiosity for liturgical­­ music history. From that interest, Josquin des Prez’s Missa Pange lingua, an important Renaissance mass for the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi, became the top...