Featured

Provost W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III announced today that he has appointed Louis W. Stark as Case Western Reserve’s new vice president for student affairs. Stark, a veteran of more than three decades’ service to young people in higher education, will start his position July 1, pending approval from the B...

Paul Barnhart pushes fourth- and fifth-year students to become problem solvers before they leave for graduate school or engineering careers. “I don’t ask them questions that have answers in the back of a book,” said Barnhart, a Case Western Reserve University associate professor of aerospace and me...

Anthropology’s Eileen Anderson-Fye started the academic year by giving the first-ever faculty address to the incoming undergraduate class. She finished it by becoming the only person in university history to win its top award for undergraduate teaching 12 months after claiming the campus prize for ...

When an incoming first-year student asked to become involved in research, R. Mohan Sankaran, associate professor of chemical engineering, delivered. The student, Megan Witzke, will graduate this month as a published researcher. She’ll enter a PhD program this fall as one of fewer than 100 chemical ...

Students waiting outside Ronald Hickman Jr.’s second floor office at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing are a familiar sight. They repeatedly come to him for sound advice about their academic and career paths. Four undergraduates gave Hickman a special “thank you” for such guidance by nomin...

A team of Case Western Reserve University students is pushing Jell-O as brain food—to teach middle schoolers about engineering. For their efforts, the team won the Biomaterials Education Challenge and $2,500 prize at the Society of Biomaterials’ national meeting in April. Jell-O may be the nation’...

Stem cells can be coaxed to grow into new bone or new cartilage better and faster when given the right molecular cues and room inside a water-loving gel, researchers at Case Western Reserve University show. By creating a three-dimensional checkerboard—one with alternating highly connected and less ...

Fourth-year engineering student Alan Filer has won a Fulbright scholarship to travel to South Korea in the fall. There, he’ll explore ways to make cheaper and cleaner alternatives to costly and toxic materials used in solar panels. Filer, who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in materials scie...

For Mary Grimm, writing is all about creativity. An associate professor of English, she teaches courses that demand imagination: fiction writing, urban fantasy, graphic novel, science fiction, and contemporary American literature. But her favorite to teach is the aptly named creative writing course,...

Lev Gonick, Case Western Reserve’s technology leader since 2001, will become CEO of Cleveland-based OneCommunity July 1. Gonick helped found the nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding Northeast Ohio’s digital access and capabilities a decade ago. During that time, OneCommunity has drawn nati...