Business, Law + Politics

L to R: Charu Ramanathan, PhD (GRS ‘04, biomedical engineering), Megan Nellis (CWR '22) Since early in her childhood, Megan Nellis (CWR ‘22) was an entrepreneur at heart—although she didn’t quite have a name for it. “I was always trying to create businesses so my family and friends wou...

The CWRU Alumni Venture Fund was recently featured in an article on Crain's Cleveland Business, which shared how the fund is being used not only to educate students about the venture ecosystem but also help support innovative, early-stage companies developed by alumni or spun out by university offic...

Women are dying at an increasing rate during childbirth in the U.S., and it’s not because of medical reasons or diseases that doctors can’t treat. “The rate of maternal mortality in the U.S. per 100,000 live births is 27. In Canada it’s 10. In Australia it’s two,” says Tshiya Subayi, a third-year s...

Jessica Ice (LAW ‘20), an associate at Squire Patton Boggs, recently supported a $4.2 billion project to support redevelopment at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Squire Patton Boggs LLP team was brought on in early spring of 2022 to serve as co-bond counsel to the New York Transportation ...

As an undergraduate student at Kalamazoo College, second-year law student Emily Worline founded her own 501(c)(3) nonprofit called Refugee Outreach Collective (ROC). Driven by her work in refugee camps in Greece, Emily was motivated to make changes at home. “I was shocked by how the international ...

For the fifth consecutive year, Weatherhead School of Management has won first place in the Association of Corporate Growth (ACG) Cup Competition. The ACG Cup is a unique case study competition designed to give students from leading university business programs experience and insight into mergers a...

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp, the battle against antisemitism is more important than ever. James Pasch (LAW ’10), who is a member of the CWRU Law School Law Alumni Association Board, and served for several ye...

Weatherhead School of Management Professor of Organizational Behavior Chris Laszlo gave the keynote address for the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s inaugural Sustainability Summit at the Huntington Convention Center on Jan. 24. Laszlo’s speech on the topic of, “Sustainability Trends, Challenges and...

Ten years ago, Coursera asked CWRU Law Professor Michael Scharf to establish a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in his area of expertise, International Criminal Law. Coursera had just been established, and Scharf was one of its first online instructors. His Introduction to International Criminal L...

Becky Schneirov, a fourth-year student majoring in economics (quantitative methods concentration) and statistics at Case Western Reserve, is a leader amongst her peers. In addition to serving as president of the Weatherhead Economics Society, Schneirov is a founding member of the Women in Economics ...