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September 10, 2014
To celebrate national Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct. 15), Case Western Reserve University will host a special art show, featuring local Latin American artists from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico. The show will open with an artists’ reception at the Kelvin Smith Library Sept. 12…
September 09, 2014
Despite gains in several component categories, Case Western Reserve slipped one notch, to 38th, in the annual U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings released today. The dip marked the first time the university’s overall position slipped since the fall of 2007, when it fell from 38th to…
September 09, 2014
Flora Stone Mather College alumna and Cleveland native Barbara “Dusty” Roads (FSM ’50) is a civil rights pioneer who paved the way for gender equality in the sky. In 1965, Roads and her fellow women flight attendants filed a complaint with the newly created Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,…
September 08, 2014
Former members of a suburban Cleveland high school rock orchestra report staying highly involved in music and that the experience prepared them to achieve in ways that came as a surprise. Now ranging in age from 18 to 28, alumni of Lakewood (Ohio) High School’s rock orchestra, the Lakewood Project…
September 08, 2014
The Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University received an extraordinary gift from the Parker Hannifin Foundation: a $2 million commitment to create the Arthur L. Parker Endowed Chair in the electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) department. The position is named in…
September 05, 2014
A progressive international conference in Cleveland, Ohio, this fall will explore how cutting-edge innovators and forward-thinking leaders are moving beyond traditional notions of social responsibility and sustainability to full-spectrum flourishing and profitability. Flourish & Prosper: The…
September 05, 2014
The Spangenberg Family Foundation, a Dallas-based philanthropic organization established by the family of Case Western Reserve University School of Law alumnus Erich Spangenberg, committed $3 million to endow the university’s Intellectual Property (IP) Center. The newly endowed Spangenberg Center…
September 04, 2014
Rudy (’50), “Father of Nike Air,” is credited with inventing Nike’s Air Sole technology Thirty-five years after Nike introduced alumnus Frank Rudy's revolutionary Air Sole technology, Nike and Case Western Reserve have teamed up to honor him through newly-designed uniforms and footwear for the…
September 04, 2014
The President’s Committee on Child Care Options (PCCCO) announced today that the university again is partnering with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH) to provide children’s programs during an upcoming school holiday. The committee began providing limited-duration child care programs…
September 03, 2014
Members of the Case Western Reserve community are invited to attend a memorial service Friday for the four undergraduates who died last week in a plane crash outside Cleveland. Classmates, student leaders and university officials will remember second-year students W. Michael Felten, 19, of…