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Case Western Reserve’s first Commencement Week kicks off with familiar pomp, plus fun new features Case Western Reserve kicked off its first Commencement Week Wednesday with the Class of 2023’s undergraduates going back to where they began: DiSanto Field. For decades, undergraduate orientation has...

Multiple family generations make up Paula FitzGibbon’s lineage at Case Western Reserve University. Degrees accrued in the past century include those earned by her grandmother from The Teacher’s College (1927); her mother from Flora Stone Mather College for Women at Western Reserve College (1957) and...

SAGES teaching fellow and lecturer in English Narcisz Fejes says she’s deeply inspired by Catholic priest, theologian and professor Henri J.M. Nouwen, who considers teaching and mentoring a form of hospitality. In her work as a full-time instructor at Case Western Reserve University since 2006, Fej...

After second-place finishes in 2020 and 2021, success proves especially sweet After thousands of hours of practice and preparation, James Hopper needed just five seconds to make history. Under the lights at the United States Tennis Association’s National Campus in Orlando Tuesday night, the senior...

At Case Western Reserve University, our students excel in research, academics, athletics and in the community. This week, we will celebrate the accomplishments of about 2,500 graduates. It would be impossible to comprehensively describe all of their contributions, but we caught up with a graduatin...

Commencement celebrations at Case Western Reserve University are taking on a new format this year—and the festivities begin tomorrow (May 17) with convocation. About 2,500 students will earn degrees over the next few days, marking the completion of their hard work and studies. They will be honored ...

Princeton scholar named 2023 Elaine G. Hadden Distinguished Visiting Author Computers may not have feelings, but the people who program them do. The same concept applies to the latest rounds of debate about artificial intelligence. Released late last year, ChatGPT became the fastest growing app in...

Jason Mears recognizes his students come from diverse backgrounds and, as such, have unique needs. To best support them, he works to create a learning environment in which each student can thrive based on where they are in their scientific, academic and personal development. This value-driven leade...

Xiong (Bill) Yu often draws parallels between his mentoring style and his engineering research. As the Opal J. and Richard A. Vanderhoof Professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yu applies insights from his degrees in civil engineering, computer science and ele...

Andrew Pieper strives to influence his students far beyond their days at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. As the Rebecca E. Barchas, MD, Professor in Translational Psychiatry, Pieper views mentorship as a key component of the academic experience. “I still carry my previous mento...