Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences

Launched at Case Western Reserve University this summer, the open-source Occupy Archive offers citizens and scholars a chance to revisit the multi-faceted movement—and recognize its roots in contemporary calls for reform and justice The Occupy Movement was one of the first massive demonstrations to...

Laura Voith, PhD, assistant professor and faculty affiliate of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, and Meghan Salas Atwell, PhD, senior research associate at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, were recently awarded a grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Devel...

Alumnus’s research into a 1918 pandemic helps shape public understanding today This article first appeared in a summer publication related to the university’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More articles will appear in The Daily and on the university and school social media accounts in upcoming...

Case Western Reserve University will offer a new bachelor of science degree in neuroscience beginning fall semester 2020. Developed jointly by the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Neurosciences in the School of Medicine, the undergraduate program is hig...

It is almost July, and it is hard to believe we are halfway through a very challenging 2020, unlike any year we’ve ever encountered. Plans are cautiously and thoughtfully coming together for the next academic year. While our research labs continue to operate – often remotely and performing critical ...

Kathleen Farkas, associate professor, and Richard Romaniuk, lecturer, have been selected as visiting scholars in the Visiting Scholars in Social Work Advances 2.0 program for summer 2020. Social Work Advances is an international MA in Social Work program. Students rotate between university departme...

20-year study involving more than 10,000 children tracks consequences of lead exposure from birth through early adulthood A new study from Case Western Reserve University shows that numerous negative issues associated with lead poisoning follow children well into adulthood—building on evidence link...

Despite COVID-19 and the many challenges we are all facing, students in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences have expressed a desire to continue working in their field education placements to help their organizations, continue their work with clients, or finish projec...

On Tuesday, June 16, Case Western Reserve University will go All In Together for our eighth annual Day of Giving—with this year’s efforts focused on the university’s COVID-19 research and to support our students as they face additional transitions because of the coronavirus. The Jack, Joseph and Mo...

Elizabeth Bolman’s original end-of-semester plans called for the art historian to be in the midst of research trips: After Cyprus and Ethiopia, she was set to deliver a lecture in Egypt about her work there on landmark projects—the conservation and documentation of four holy Coptic (Egyptian Christi...