College of Arts and Sciences
Interdisciplinary research, collaboratives and achievements define the Case Western Reserve University College of Arts and Sciences’ community—across countless disciplines. From literary awards and scientific discoveries to stories of social impact and student innovation, the College of Arts and Sciences is where bold ideas become newsworthy moments.
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CWRU faculty members explore tariffs from legal, economic and historical perspectives
Tariffs have been a fixture of the news cycle in 2025, as the Trump administration has moved to implement taxes on imported goods. A matter of foreign and economic importance, tariffs have a range of effects on the economy as a whole and for the average American consumer. Beyond the economic…
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September 23, 2013
A modified law of gravity correctly predicted, in advance of the observations, the velocity dispersion—the average speed of stars within a galaxy relative to each other—in 10 dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way’s giant neighbor Andromeda. The relatively large velocity dispersions observed in…
September 19, 2013
Antonio Candau, former chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, died Tuesday, Sept. 17. He was 51. Candau joined the Case Western Reserve faculty as an associate professor in 2001. A native of Madrid, he specialized in contemporary Spanish literature and culture, earning deep…
September 15, 2013
Assistant professors of physics Claudia de Rham and Andrew J. Tolley received awards to delve deep into black holes, dark energy and other phenomena tied to crucial events in the evolution of the universe. Tolley is one of a handful of physicists nationwide who won a $750,000 U.S. Department of…
September 11, 2013
$15 million gift deepens and expands existing partnerships through support of joint doctoral program, scholarship and the museum’s Ingalls Library
Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art are launching a landmark initiative that capitalizes on their longtime collaborations as…
August 13, 2013
Joseph F. Fagan III, the Leffingwell Professor of Psychology and a leading researcher on infant intelligence, died Aug. 10. He was 71. Fagan joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in 1968, after earning his bachelor’s degree in English and psychology in 1963 from University of…
August 08, 2013
John D. Protasiewicz, professor of chemistry, has been selected as a member of the 2013 class of American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellows. Protasiewicz’s areas of research interest include inorganic chemistry, materials and energy, organometallic chemistry, crystallography and more. His research…
August 01, 2013
Robert W. Brown, Distinguished University Professor and Institute Professor in the Department of Physics, was invited as an "eminent foreign scholar" to visit Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, for the month of July. During his stay, Brown presented 18 lectures and seminars on the subject of…
July 25, 2013
David Ake, professor of musicology and an accomplished jazz scholar and musician, was appointed chair of the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University. Since 2011, Ake has served as director of the School of the Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno. A member of the university’s…
July 03, 2013
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…
June 24, 2013
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,…