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The very people Superman could not save were his own creators—Jerry Siegel, the writer, and Joe Shuster, the comic artist.Superman was unable to fly into action to rescue the naïve, idealistic teens, eager for fame and fortune. He couldn’t stop them from selling rights to their creation for a mere…

The water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed, researchers from Brown and Case Western Reserve universities and Carnegie Institution of Washington have found. Evidence…

Andrea Fidler first heard of Macau, a special administrative region of China, during a visit last year to Hong Kong with her boyfriend’s family. Over the next year, the graduating senior from Case Western Reserve will travel to Macau as a Fulbright Scholar on an English Teaching Assistantship…

Sienna White, a first-year law student at Case Western Reserve University, wants to better understand the failures that led to the Holocaust so she can work in her own career to prevent any repetition of such a horror. White, 22, is one of 14 students from law schools nationally that the New…

Last year, a group of Case Western Reserve University students made headlines with Hole Patch, their innovative approach to fixing potholes using a bag filled with a secret recipe of non-Newtonian fluid. As a co-founder of the award-winning startup, junior Mayank Saksena played a major role in the…

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…

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…

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…