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Psychology’s Lee Thompson named top educator of first-year students in the U.S.
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report Professor Lee Thompson takes an unusual approach to teaching her course “Life of the Mind,” a First Seminar in SAGES (the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship) at Case Western Reserve University. Thompson, chair of the…
5 questions with…development director, former music agent Brian Sokol
He started off as a young man from Akron with a love for music; years later, he worked the red carpet at the Grammys, rubbing elbows with some of the music industry’s elite. No, we’re not talking about a member of The Black Keys. We’re talking about Brian Sokol, who now serves as the executive…
Art historian documents works that strengthen India’s link to European Renaissance
A quest to link India to European Renaissance art yielded some surprising findings for Case Western Reserve University art historian Erin Benay. Benay discovered several undocumented and unpublished works, which she revealed recently in a presentation, "Repurposed Renaissance: Adaptation in…
Mathematics professor Peter Kotelenez passes away
Longtime university mathematics professor Peter Kotelenez, an expert in stochastic differential equations, died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 69. A member of the Case Western Reserve faculty since 1990, Kotelenez published widely on stochastic differential equations, Brownian…