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Raised in a tiny Texas Panhandle town of just 363 people, Elizabeth A. Davis (GRS ’06, theatre) grew up surrounded by family, farmland and music. “We are agrarian to the core, and I got this unique blend of plowing and singing,” she said, describing a childhood shaped equally by hard work and…
“My objective in coming here was to finish law school in three years, return to Alabama, become a lawyer and destroy everything segregated I could find.”If you think this sounds like the opening line in the next novel by Percival Everett or Colson Whitehead, it would be a good guess, but incorrect…
Long before he became a civic leader helping guide some of Northeast Ohio’s most visible community and cultural initiatives, Greg Peckham (MNO ’09) was an undergraduate student in Columbus studying criminology. At first glance, it may seem like an unlikely starting point for a career in nonprofit…
Bill Allport and his daughter, Christine Lewanski, at her graduation from CWRU School of Law in 1995.
On the first day of law school, Bill Allport (LAW ’69) stood on the steps of the old law school building, waiting for the doors to open, and struck up a conversation with a handful of…
Julia Bianco (CWR ’16) is having a big year.The Case Western Reserve University alumna recently published her debut novel, Witch Season, a contemporary fantasy from St. Martin’s Press—and it’s already on its way to television. In June, Deadline reported that Lionsgate Television is developing the…
Case Western Reserve University trustee and alumnus Joe Mandato (MGT ’04) has committed $1 million to the university’s Weatherhead School of Management to expand scholarship support, strengthen student-centered leadership and help ensure the long-term vitality of programs that define the…
Case Western Reserve University has announced a $1.5 million gift from alumni and longtime philanthropic partners Larry M. Sears (CIT ’69) and Sally Zlotnick Sears (FSM ’72, LYS ’74) to establish the Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears Instructor in Electrical Engineering at Case School of…
Farrokh Khatibi, PhD (CIT ’81; GRS ’84, ’88, electrical engineering and applied physics), almost never left his native Iran. But barely three weeks after a chance meeting with a Case Western Reserve University alumnus there, Khatibi found himself in the United States for the first time, attending…
When Shailesh Mehta was a student at Case Western Reserve University in the 1970s, a professor tasked him with an “unsolvable” problem. Undeterred, Mehta solved the impossible—and used the solution as the thesis for his eventual doctorate in operations research.More than 50 years—and a successful…
Eva-Jessy Guech, a second-year computer science major, was raised to be an articulate communicator and always envisioned becoming a lawyer.But as the Rockville, Maryland, native experimented with the drawing tools on her dad’s home computer, her interests began to shift. And her curiosity to…