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Aliah Lawson (left) and Anaiya Manuel (right) For seniors Aliah Lawson and Anaiya Manuel, racial injustices are both lived experiences and a topic of their studies at Case Western Reserve University. And earlier this year when protests were held across the country to challenge these systemic injust...

James McGuffin-Cawley has built his career around creating opportunities for students. It’s the main reason he transitioned into an administrative role at the Case School of Engineering several years ago. And it’s what led him to his new position as the faculty director of the university’s innovatio...

Junior Nathan Lesch had a close-up seat to history Tuesday as a member of the working media covering the presidential debate from the media filing center at the Intercontinental Cleveland Hotel. Typically journalists would be in the debate hall—in this instance, the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion...

A Girl Scout in childhood, Riley Kenehan initially approached the local office of the organization with an interest in teaching STEM courses and leading projects with local troops. Now a senior in the Bachelor of Nursing Science program at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, that would have ...

When Case Western Reserve University transitioned to remote operations last spring, Hunter Stecko was instrumental in launching the Student Activities Fee COVID-19 Emergency Fund. Then the vice president of finance for the Undergraduate Student Government (USG), Stecko worked with Joey Kass, chairma...

Vipin Chaudhary discovered his passion for electronics, computer science and computing early in life. Starting in his middle school years, he began building radios and music systems. But his path to computer and data science started in earnest in 1980, when his father, a professor of electronics and...

Last summer, law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission, a non-profit that engages in community development projects abroad to help women and children in 66 countries. It was her second internship abroad, and like her first, it was ...

On June 5, Kerolos Elsayed was focused on one thing: defending his thesis, the culmination of his studies and experience in the endodontics program at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine. Moments before, Chair of the Department of Endodontics Andre Mickel shared some exciting...

From a young age, Joy K. Ward, the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, knew science would be her calling. By the time she was 7 years old, Ward was already collecting interesting specimens from the forest near her home and looking at cells through her father’s microscope. As a senior in hi...

By Eddie Kerekes You are sitting in the middle of a blizzard at a football game. Though you are trying to support your school, you can barely distinguish the players on the field, and you have no idea who has the ball or where it is. Suddenly, you hear the public address announcer. “It’s first an...