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One of Nital Subhas’ earliest memories is being on a plane for the first time with her aunt and sister, drinking Coca-Cola. While being permitted to drink the sugary beverage felt notable to a 5-year-old Subhas, the trip had an even greater significance: She was immigrating to the United States to j...

Upon visiting the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage to explore the new interactive exhibit featuring local activist and civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr., you might not realize how the exhibit is connected to Case Western Reserve University. But this connection helped facilitate one of the e...

Emmanuelle Iskandar completed her master’s degree in food engineering in Lebanon on Aug. 4, 2020—the day after the devastating port explosion in Beirut. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis the explosion had caused, it was challenging for freshly graduated students like Iskandar to ...

The biggest secret to skydiving is that it doesn’t feel like falling. That is, according to Jim Nauer—and he should know. He has more than 20 years of experience jumping out of planes. Jim Nauer (right) and Heidi Wagner, associate director of student information systems “The instant you leave the ...

As a lifelong Clevelander, Nick Barendt is passionate about seeing the city grow and thrive. Now, as a part of Leadership Cleveland’s class of 2023, he and 64 leaders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors of Northeast Ohio will go through a 10-month program to explore challenges and opportu...

Though headlines may lament that “There is no case for the humanities” or “The humanities are in crisis,” the scene on many university campuses dispels this notion. What is sometimes missing, however, is people in leadership positions with humanities training and diversity among humanities practitio...

Aaron Perzanowski grew up in a small West Virginia town along the Ohio River. At Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, he majored in philosophy—the “ideal background” for studying law, he said. “It taught me how to construct and deconstruct an argument, how to examine texts closely, and how to disentangl...

Yolanda Cooper, the new vice provost and Lindseth Family University Librarian, has enjoyed a warm reception from the staff at Kelvin Smith Library—one that contrasts sharply from the cold, wintry mix that greeted her on her first day on the job in January. One might think that Cleveland’s winter w...

As part of his lineup of speaking engagements at Case Western Reserve University, Dexter R. Voisin, the new dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, will give the 2022 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month keynote address. Voisin will take inspirat...

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza has experienced life in countries around the world—from the West Indies and Kenya to the United States and Canada. Throughout his travels, he’s worked in higher education in six countries on three continents. “My birth family is transnational,” Zeleza shared. “All of my siblings...