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A newly published book, Mexico and American Modernism (Yale University Press), caps the 31-year academic career of Ellen G. Landau, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. Landau, a faculty member in the Cleveland Museum of Art/Case Western Reserve Unive...

The 67th annual Association for Continuing Education Book Sale at Case Western Reserve University will move to a new location this year because of a record number of donations. The sale is June 1-4 at Veale Convocation, Athletic and Recreation Center. The move from Adelbert Gym, where the event has...

On Sunday, Brittany Rohner was supposed to be on campus with her fellow graduate students as they celebrated the successful completion of their degrees. Instead, she was in Akron City Hospital, celebrating her graduation with the hospital’s nursing staff, her husband, family and most importantly, he...

Case Western Reserve University political scientist Karen Beckwith received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to the United Kingdom. She will spend six months next year in Scotland and attend political science meetings in England and Spain. Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor of Pol...

Nicole Pucci remembers what it felt like to not fit in during middle school. “No one feels like they belong. It is an awkward stage where you are trying to figure out how to relate to others.” Amy Przeworski reached her adult height of 5 feet 9 inches in sixth grade and struggled to blend in with c...

Some prostate cancer patients unnecessarily undergo surgery or harsh treatments because science fails to identify the differences between slow-growing and aggressive forms of the disease. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are developing te...

An accomplished organist, Alanna Ropchock’s performances for religious services and festivals fueled a curiosity for liturgical­­ music history. From that interest, Josquin des Prez’s Missa Pange lingua, an important Renaissance mass for the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi, became the top...

IQ directly relates to how students perform on tests in the first two years of dental school. But emotional intelligence (EI) trumps IQ in how well dental students work with patients, researchers from Case Western Reserve University’s School of Dental Medicine and Weatherhead School of Management re...

The man who built a small insurance operation into a national industry standard-setter accepted an honorary degree Sunday from Case Western Reserve University—the alma mater of his mother, father, sister, son, ex-wife, aunt and uncle. “Today,” Progressive Chairman Peter B. Lewis said as part of his...

On a rainy April afternoon, a hopeful member of Case Western Reserve’s Class of 2013 climbed the dozen steps to the door of Clapp Hall, home of the university’s chemistry department. He was there for the final hurdle of his undergraduate career: the senior capstone presentation. The assignment, des...