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When Jaime Bouvier decided to try aerial circus acts nine years ago, she wasn’t particularly good at it. In fact, she said it was a place for her to be bad at something she enjoyed doing. And, she noted, it helped give her a new perspective into her law students. She had only recently stepped aw...

Vice President for Research and Technology Management Suzanne Rivera was a 35-year-old mother of two when she started her PhD, but by that point, she had long worked in higher education, and more specifically, research administration. “After years of working as a university research administrator, ...

As a junior in college, Jerrold Scott was immersed in British politics as a part of the English-Speaking Union’s exchange program. During that year, Scott was a Member of Parliament’s research assistant, writing some of his speeches that were given on the floor of the House of Commons. He even met t...

Sarah Gridley believes children are natural-born poets, but they lose that sense of lyricism as they grow older and are taught that they must speak in a certain way. Keeping that poetic orientation, she said, is “a matter of holding on to that way of thinking and seeing and saying.” Gridley held o...

As a musician, Ken Wendt realized the gear surrounding him and his instruments played a critical role in presenting his craft to the world. So Wendt, who plays trumpet and drums, immersed himself in a different side of music: the technology supporting it. As he learned more about the tech side, ...

When Kim Gliebe started her PhD program in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, it was a bit of a homecoming. Not only had the University of Dayton graduate grown up in Mentor—about half an hour east of campus—but she also had already conducted rese...

When Agustin Torres got his Case Western Reserve University student ID, he sat on a campus bench, turning it over in his hand and taking it all in. He had come a long way, after all, and that was not lost on him. It had been about 10 years since he was arrested after the business he owned hired und...

Dan Gil (right) with the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Congo Todd P. Haskell (center) and Maryse Nkoua (left). In 2017, Case Western Reserve University hosted 25 rising leaders from sub-Saharan African countries as a site for the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders program....

Last year, an injury during the indoor track and field season cut Cassandra Laios’ senior season short. But Laios, a thrower on the Case Western Reserve University women’s track and field team, was determined to end her athletic career on her own terms. So, she returned to Case Western Reserve for ...

When Lin Mei decided to go into medicine, he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Both had careers in the field: his mother in cardiology and his father in public health. But after medical school in China and a one-year internship that exposed him to various specialties in medicine, he felt he...