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This story originally ran in The Daily. When Andrew Medvedev decided to return to his alma mater as co-dean for Weatherhead School of Management, one aspect sealed the deal—he recognized an incredible opportunity for the school to be a leading intellectual hub for the management community. It’s a ...

His Spouse Jessica Wolfendale Receives Secondary Appointment Case Western Reserve University School of Law is proud to welcome Professor Atiba Ellis as a tenured professor of law in January 2023. Professor Ellis has taught at Howard University School of Law and West Virginia University School of ...

Universal Learning and Employment (LER) Ecosystem: Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Credentialing Solution Earlier in the year, xLab faculty members Youngjin Yoo and Erman Ayday were awarded a grant with the Walmart Foundation to develop a white paper identifying key socio-technical challenges and pri...

Congratulations to xLab founder and faculty director, Youngjin Yoo, on two recent awards: the 2022 Faculty Distinguished Research Award from Case Western Reserve University and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Management....

Congratulations to Erman Ayday, xLab professor and assistant professor in the Department of Computer and Data Science, for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant. The CAREER award is considered the agency’s most significant grant for...

ShareTrace: Contact Tracing with the Actor Model IEEE HealthCom 2022 Ryan Tatton, Erman Ayday, Youngjin Yoo, Anisa Halimi Proximity-based contact tracing relies on user-device interaction to estimate the spread of disease. ShareTrace is one such approach that improves the efficacy of tracking disea...

Varun Nagaraj Dr. Varun Nagaraj has had a 30-year career in product innovation in Boston and Silicon Valley, during which he held CEO and other executive leadership roles at several venture-funded start-ups and public companies developing communications, computing, IoT, and AI products. He was also...

Second-year law student Harper Fox traveled to London, England, over the summer for an externship with the International Bar Association. What was the best part of your experience? “I really enjoyed working to provide Ukrainian attorneys with webinars and materials so they would be in compliance w...

Second-year law student Frankie Collins recently traveled to Athens, Greece, to attend a week-long summer law school program. She shared some reflections from the trip. What was the purpose of the program? “The focus was on International Investment Arbitration and it was organized by the Athens ch...

The Business of Building a Better World, written and edited by Weatherhead Professor David Cooperrider along with co-author Audrey Selian—is among ten finalists for “best book of the year” in the category of business impact for getAbstract's annual book awards. getAbstract receives 10,000 books per...