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Lisa Nielson is much more than an award-winning teacher at Case Western Reserve University, where she is frequently known as “Dr. N” among her students. She has also honed skills as a mentor, to the Nth degree. The Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow is one of the winners of the 2016 J. Bruce Jackson, MD, ...

In early April, there was a knock at the side door of the classroom where Amy Absher was teaching one of her SAGES courses. To the laughter of her students, Absher joked: “We’re not interested. We don’t want any.” The door then swung open, and in walked President Barbara R. Snyder to congratulate h...

Jim Sheeler’s classes—and much of his journalistic career—center on telling untold stories; celebrating those who didn’t make headlines, but whose lives could fill volumes. On day one of his “Introduction to Journalism” class, students are given their first assignment: Observe, then write about, so...

The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University has selected Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International and pioneer of the global fight against corruption, for the 2016 Inamori Ethics Prize. Case Western Reserve has awarded the Inamori Ethics Pr...

Like her former teachers at Yale University and her mentors at the Yale Center for British Art, Andrea Wolk Rager radiates an enthusiasm for art history that inspires her graduate students—the next generation of curators and professors—to develop and share their ideas about art. As an educator, Rag...

Growing up in Lares, a rural town of Puerto Rico, Carlos Crespo-Hernández knew he loved science but was unsure how to turn that passion into a career. During his undergraduate years at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan campus, though, he began conducting chemistry research. Then, through a Na...

John Ruhl, the Connecticut Professor of Physics and Astronomy, has won a 2016 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring—despite that he says he doesn’t consciously mentor. “We train graduate students using an apprenticeship model—we work side by side for a long time,” Ruhl...

A doctoral student struggling with personal issues and stress from the workload had neglected his research and missed self-imposed deadlines for six weeks last summer when he got a text from his advisor, asking to meet. The PhD student arrived at Ronald Hickman Jr.’s office begrudgingly, expecting ...

Five Case Western Reserve University junior faculty members have been awarded National Science Foundation CAREER grants, bringing more than $2.5 million for research to campus. The five-year grants support the scientists as they delve into how nanopartical organization controls properties of materi...

Research may offer clue into biologic role of these genes in tumor progression Little is known about the molecular basis of aberrant protein glycosylation, a complex enzymatic process that is a hallmark of many human cancers—including colorectal cancers (CRC). Yet in a recent study published in the ...