Connect

Brighten someone’s day with small thoughtful gestures for Random Acts of Kindness Week (Feb. 12-18). In this week’s Connect section, we wanted to help you "connect" with others—by sharing some small things you can do for friends or strangers this week. Here are some suggestions from Wellness Coord...

In this week’s Guess Where, we shared a photo of the statue of poet Hart Crane outside Kelvin Smith Library. Many correctly guessed that the statue stands outside the library, but few named Crane. Created by sculptor William McVey, the statue is part of the Putnam Collection. Three plaques offerin...

In this week’s Guess Where question, we featured the sculpture above the Case Quad entrance to the Rockefeller Building. Many of this week’s respondents correctly named the Rockefeller Building, but Adelbert Hall was another popular guess. As the inscription in the photo suggests, the building was...

Nearly all who answered this week’s Guess Where question where able to correctly guess the Health Services Building—also the former law school building. Designed by Charles F. Schweinfurth and completed in 1896, the building originally served as the first home of the School of Law. Schweinfurth de...

Cleveland Indians Manager Terry Francona visited campus last week to speak to the Leading People & Organizations class at the Weatherhead School of Management. Francona answered questions from students on his leadership style and reflected on last season. Before Francona spoke, Jeff Heinen, co-own...

Nearly all of the guesses to this week’s “Guess Where” photo were correct, naming the sculpture in the image as a feature of the Mary Chisholm Painter Arch. The arch, located just off Euclid Avenue near the Church of the Covenant, dates back to 1904. William and Mary Stone Chisholm gave the arch as...

Albert M. Michelson won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907, becoming the first American scientist to win a Nobel Prize. He won the prize for his work on "optical precision instruments and the research carried out with their aid." This week we asked if the university community knew which of the univ...

The first presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump took place Monday—and for some, it brought back memories of three election cycles ago and a major event on our campus. On Oct. 5, 2004, the vice presidential debate took place at Case West...

In 1896, a Case Institute of Technology physicist completed the first full-body X-ray. His name? Dayton Miller. Miller, who led the physics department from 1895-1936, conducted the X-ray on his entire body, going section by section. An article in The Plain Dealer, which described Konrad von Roentg...

Nearly everyone who submitted a guess for this week’s Connect Photo correctly named the Peter B. Lewis Building. The photo was a close-up of the siding near the doors. Architect Frank Gehry designed the building, which is home to the Weatherhead School of Management. The building, which boasts od...