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Though traditional commencement ceremonies won’t be held this weekend as originally planned, Case Western Reserve University will celebrate the accomplishments of its graduates with a virtual event Sunday, May 17. Undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students will receive their degrees in the…

Andrea Milne, lecturer in history and SAGES teaching fellow, understands how a mentor can change a young student’s life. While a freshman at Bryn Mawr College, Milne got “stuck” in a U.S. history course due to scheduling issues. She had no plans to study history in college, but her professor…

Years ago, Karen Potter (GRS ’89), professor and chair of the Department of Dance, observed a colleague providing feedback to a student. The exchange was quiet and private so that only the student could hear the instructor’s words of criticism or praise. Potter was so impressed by what she…

At first blush, the word that Tim Goler uses to describe his mentor, Eva Kahana—as “family”—would seem to belie their dissimilar backgrounds. Kahana is a Hungarian Jewish refugee who survived Nazi occupation, the Holocaust and a brutal Communist rule in her native country to become a sociology…

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve, is among the leading global authorities in medical-image analysis, computational pathology and artificial intelligence in precision medicine. But Madabhushi, director of the Center for Computational…

Diana Driscoll likes to ask her students, “Why do we care?” The inspiration for that challenge came from a former student who ended each class by asking her that same question. “He was not being disrespectful,” she said. “He really wanted to understand the connection between physics and real…

After graduating from Case Institute of Technology in 1969 with a BS in electrical engineering, Larry Sears (CIT ‘69) founded Hexagram Inc., a business-to-business company that developed and manufactured a range of electronic systems and controls for a variety of customers. After 35 years in…

Gaudianis’ gift assists students, inspires additional support Maria Luisa Bates Domenech had a problem. On spring break when the university moved to remote learning, she needed to get back to campus to gather essentials for class—and, afterward, home to Utah. But because of the short notice, the…

National Academy of Medicine names associate dean at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing to new class of scholars Ronald Hickman, associate dean for research at the Center for Research and Scholarship and the Ruth M. Anderson Professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton…

Devices being developed at Case Western Reserve’s public-access innovation center in collaboration with University Hospitals protect front-line health care workers Northeast Ohio health care workers on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19 are benefitting from innovative devices being…