As an assistant director, Alan manages development and alumni communications for the schools of arts & sciences, engineering, law, management and social sciences.
Recent News Articles
Karen F. Kaler and Chirag Gupta at the Bicentennial event in Mumbai, India.
Anyone who has passed through downtown Chicago knows the temptation of Garrett Popcorn: the unmistakable aroma, the lines out the door, the iconic tins carried through airports and train stations. For Chirag Gupta…
In the pilot of The West Wing television drama series, President Jed Bartlet concludes the episode by famously asking his staff, "What's next?"Nicole Nason (LAW ’95) has lived her professional life by asking that exact same question.Nason did not come to Case Western Reserve University School of…
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…