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Known for his inquisitive nature, Christopher Lysyj was, at times, an unofficial ambassador for his classmates in the Master of Science in Anesthesia program, often taking it upon himself to seek clarification during class. This week, his classmates and professors are mourning the loss of Lysyj, wh...

Like many scientists before him, Walter Boron’s medical discoveries are founded in basic scientific research, figuring out how things work. His breakthrough happened early, as a graduate student at Washington University in the mid-1970s. His first publication reporting the initial example of the act...

Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), is widely considered to be the world’s leading scholar of Tibet in anthropology. He is the first Western anthropologist to conduct ...

Vipin Chaudhary discovered his passion for electronics, computer science and computing early in life. Starting in his middle school years, he began building radios and music systems. But his path to computer and data science started in earnest in 1980, when his father, a professor of electronics and...

A talented cellist whose diverse musical influences ranged from classical (Yo-Yo Ma) to rock (Arctic Monkeys and Red Hot Chili Peppers) to hip hop (Immortal Technique and Dilated Peoples), rising second-year music student Micco Daniels passed away recently. He was 19. Daniels was raised in a musica...

Last summer, law student Kristina Aiad-Toss spent two months in El Salvador interning for International Partners in Mission, a non-profit that engages in community development projects abroad to help women and children in 66 countries. It was her second internship abroad, and like her first, it was ...

School of Medicine’s Heidi Gullett ‘a force for good’ in the region’s coronavirus pandemic response By Ginger Christ 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 s...

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 weeks; visit case.edu/together to see more. As students, faculty and staff lef...

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...

Assistant Professor Robert (Rob) P. Igo Jr. was known as a thoughtful genetic epidemiologist who embodied the spirit of team science by his colleagues in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences (PQHS). He passed away over the weekend. Igo had many professional accomplishmen...