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Greg Banaszak, a music instructor with a whimsical air about him, explained his desire to master the saxophone as pure instinct. After hearing Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are” at 10 years old, he said, something clicked. He didn’t even know the instrument being played. But he instantly told his m...

While working in professional development and learning at Kent State University, Robert Hall often found himself considering the same question: What makes people change their performance? Hall was captivated by Harvard scholar Srini Pillay’s book, Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great ...

As a mechanical engineering major, Rachel Laveson is accustomed to solving problems on the fly. In fact, that’s what drew her to engineering in the first place. That skill has come in handy many times this summer for Laveson, who is interning in the Engineering Education Summer Outreach program. T...

[dropcap size=big]L[/dropcap]isa Camp is a driving force behind innovation at Case Western Reserve, and now she’s taking it to the national level. As associate dean for strategic initiatives at the Case School of Engineering, Camp is charged with working on complex special projects that bring togeth...

Roman Sheremeta doesn’t get anxious often. But when he was watching the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals just a few weeks ago, he recognized a feeling he hadn’t had in quite some time. “I teach hundreds of students every year. Several times I spoke to thousands of people in large auditoriums. ...

Matt Englander believes there are two key ingredients to running a marathon: time and will. And he certainly has the will. Ten months after undergoing surgery for brain cancer in fall 2011, Englander, Case Western Reserve University’s head baseball coach, ran his first marathon. After that first o...

Alan Rocke is retiring, but it’s a little hard to tell. “There’s not much free time looking forward,” said Rocke, who taught the history of the physical sciences as a Distinguished University Professor and the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History. “Things won’t change much.” Though Rocke wil...

Olivia Ortega spent the summer between her junior and senior years crashing in the living room of a place she found on Craigslist in order to make interning at the immigration department of the International Rescue Committee in Oakland, California, a reality. While many would have balked at such li...

As an athlete, Logan Glosser has always known the importance of eating well and exercising. So when deciding on a career path, nutrition seemed to be the obvious choice. The Toledo, Ohio, native opted to study at Case Western Reserve University, where he could continue his soccer career as a Sparta...

The first time Evan Ostrowski stepped foot on campus, he was immersed in one of Case Western Reserve University’s richest traditions—the Hudson Relays. As a high school senior, Ostrowski, now a chemical engineering student and member of the Class of 2017, paid his visit to CWRU on the day the relay...