College of Arts and Sciences

Amman Spencer has two goals for this year—being accepted to medical school and increasing student feedback and involvement at Case Western Reserve University. On the first front, he’s enrolled in courses on nutritional biochemistry and metabolism, further honing his academic background to support hi...

As an international student more than 6,000 miles from home, Nivedita Srinivasan arrived at Case Western Reserve three years ago knowing no one. While she expected to meet new friends and share experiences with her roommates, she never dreamt they'd show her the same depth of love and support her pa...

Fey Parrill Fey Parrill, professor and chair of the Department of Cognitive Science at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently won the Rosalind Franklin Society (RFS) Awards in Science for her paper “Revisioning Cognitive Science Through Holistic Science, Biophilia, and Indigenous Ways of Knowi...

Francesca Brittan, associate professor of music at the College of Arts and Sciences, was selected as a scholar-in-residence at The Bard Music Festival this month alongside colleague Sarah Hibberd of Bristol University. Brittan and Hibberd are co-editors of the recently published book Berlioz and Hi...

The American Philosophical Association recently profiled a course led by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, professor of philosophy at the College of Arts and Sciences. Bendik-Keymer developed his “Good Relationships” course while he was the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics at Case Western Reserve Universi...

Johanna Nagy, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University, was recently awarded NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics to advance her work in experimental cosmology. This esteemed early career award is granted to a select few of the ...

The university community mourns the loss of faculty emeritus Paul Schroeder who passed away on July 20 after a short illness. A memorial service will be held at the Church of the Savior, United Methodist Church in Cleveland Heights on Aug. 13, at 2 p.m. Friends will be received starting at 1 p.m. ...

Walt Hunter shares the power of poetry with students—and a national magazine audience For Case Western Reserve's Walt Hunter, poetry is an elixir of life—a concentrated expression of what it means to be human. "A poem is a translation of an idea into vivid and compressed language," said Hunter, a ...

The Department of History and CWRU History Associates will host the 2024 Carl W. Ubbelohde Public Lecture Thursday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A. The lecture will feature James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, the leading or...

Today, along the Seine River and under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, the official opening of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will bring the world’s best athletes together. Competitors in a wide range of sports—from archery to wrestling—will set their sights on a gold medal and celebrate their nation...