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Sandra Christie, PhD (GRS ’76, ’83, sociology), has committed $2 million to establish the Sandy Christie Scholarship Fund, expanding access and support for graduate students pursuing their studies in sociology at Case Western Reserve University’s College of Arts and Sciences.In addition to…
Alumna and trustee Susan Mucciarone (MGT ’84) is reinforcing her long-standing support for student success and leadership development at Case Western Reserve University with a $1 million gift to Weatherhead School of Management.
The gift builds on Mucciarone’s $1 million commitment in 2020. Half…
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.
His inquisitive, solutions-driven…
Ann and Dr. James Swinehart (ADL ’50)
When asked what set James Stephen Swinehart, PhD, apart as a professor, those who knew him best have a simple answer: He made the study of science feel more approachable. Now, thanks to the generosity and vision of Swinehart’s family, that legacy…
Pritha and Jeff Browning lived every parent’s nightmare last summer when their oldest daughter, Mira, passed away from injuries sustained in an apartment fire. Mira (CWR ’25) had been just days away from starting her dream job teaching middle school English.
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James S. “Great Neck” Richman (ADL ’72) fondly recalls seeing artists such as Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison perform in Cleveland during his time as a student at Case Western Reserve University in the late 1960s and early ’70s. These concerts only reinforced his burgeoning love of music that began…
Ambassador and Mrs. Wolf
The concept of education as a lifetime pursuit was paramount in the Wolf household, so much so that Roslyn Zehman Wolf, the matriarch of the family, returned to school in her early 50s to earn her bachelor’s degree from what is now Case Western Reserve…
Scott Wang, a lifelong artist and musician, was drawn to dentistry as a teenager because it fused manual skill with healthcare. Shadowing his orthodontist in high school, he noticed the parallels between treatment planning and artistic principles such as symmetry and spatial analysis.
He was also…
Farrokh Khatibi, PhD (CIT ’81; GRS ’84, ’88, electrical engineering and applied physics)
Farrokh Khatibi, PhD (CIT ’81; GRS ’84, ’88, electrical engineering and applied physics), almost never left Iran. But barely three weeks after a chance meeting with a Case Western Reserve University…