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A small car made of K’NEX pieces lit up—first in blue, then red and finally green. Then it zipped along a driveway, moving left, right, forward and backward—all controlled by Austin Wilson’s voice and Alexa, the virtual assistant developed by Amazon. Though he was only 16 years old, Wilson’s abil...

Angela Miller knows firsthand how transformative study abroad experiences can be. Miller’s own educational endeavors in Europe, Africa and India transformed her life and inspired her to help others to have similar experiences. She brings her passion for international education to Case Western Re...

Staring at the grade on her first computer science test in high school, Dasani Madipalli was upset. Facing a significant learning curve as she entered the field, she had struggled with the challenging coursework. Spotting her distress, Madipalli’s teacher approached her with encouragement. So she s...

After Enyou Wang’s first acting class at Case Western Reserve University two years ago, the instructor, theater lecturer Anaya Farrell, pulled him aside. She immediately recognized his innate fashion sense and authentic presence—that inexplicable “it” factor—and asked if he was a model. He wasn’t, b...

Over the summer, junior Devina Patel left her hometown of Cleveland for an internship in Washington, D.C. She came back armed with legal knowledge, a passion for criminal justice, and an inspiration for what she hopes will become a new student organization. Patel, an English and finance major on th...

Postdoctoral scholar Marie McCausland (GRS ’17, molecular virology) knows a news article saved her life. Just before being induced to give birth, she read the story of a New Jersey nurse who died in 2011 from a case of severe preeclampsia, or pregnancy-induced hypertension. Four days after giving b...

Junior Kimberly Chen’s two goals in the women’s soccer team’s Oct. 2 match against Allegheny College helped solidify the team’s lead and eventual 3-0 win. And her performance in that game also helped earn her recognition as one of two Spartan Club Athletes of the Week. At the outset of the season, ...

Anthony Wynshaw-Boris can’t recall a time when he didn’t know he would have a career in medicine. It was just something he feels like he was “almost born with”—fitting for researcher who would go on to study genetics. With a career at the intersection of pediatrics and genetics, Wynshaw-Boris, the ...

In Maya Rao’s acceptance letter to Case Western Reserve, an admission counselor included a suggestion: Rao should consider joining Undergraduate Student Government should she choose the university. She took that advice to heart. Upon arriving on campus that fall, she became a first-year representa...

When Benjamin Helton leads the Spartan Marching Band onto DiSanto Field Saturday to open the 2018 Case Western Reserve University football season, the audience is sure to recognize the tunes. Helton chooses what he considers classic collegiate marching band music that “keeps the crowd—and the stude...