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March is Employee Appreciation Month. Each week this month, we will put the spotlight on an outstanding staff member who is instrumental in keeping our institution moving forward—even when faced with monumental challenges like those presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. We begin with Alfreda…

L. David Baldwin (CIT '49), who forged an extraordinary career in electronics and followed it with transformative philanthropy, died Monday in Florida. He was 96. "David Baldwin was a quiet gentleman and a force for good," said Roger Cerne, longtime leader of the Case Alumni Association who now…

After seven years in education, working with K-12 students as a teaching assistant, tutor and coach, Isabel Ballard decided to switch careers and apply to the Mandel School’s Master of Social Work degree program. Passionate about mental health, Ballard, now a second-year student in the Master of…

When Case Western Reserve University staff member and alumna Marie Vibbert (CWR ’98) isn’t working as a programmer for the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship through [U]Tech, she can often be found working on her other passion: creative writing. The idea for Vibbert’s latest project dates…

Catherine "Kitty" Borchert was 9 when the Case Institute of Technology (CIT) persuaded her father to leave a New York photographic company to lead the Cleveland science and engineering school.  Her connection to the campus would continue for most of the next seven decades, as she earned two…

Thomas Peterson appreciated faculty who shared his curiosity, creativity Drew Adams, an assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, with Thomas Peterson Thomas Peterson loved laboratories.  Whether the site of invention was a high-tech space in the Biomedical Research…

Peter Gerhart, longtime professor and former dean of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, passed away on Feb. 7, 2021, after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He is survived by his wife Ann, his children and grandchildren. He was 75. His daughters Gracie and Mary have been members of the…

Much has changed in the world since Robert Solomon first stepped onto campus on Feb. 1, 2020, as Case Western Reserve University's new vice president for the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity. Soon the country would be gripped by a worldwide pandemic and social and racial…

Emeritus Professor Jack Koenig, a founding faculty member of Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering whose innovative use of modern spectroscopy revolutionized science's understanding of the characterization of polymer systems, passed away on Tuesday,…

Members of the campus community are mourning the loss of undergraduate student Garrett Marchetti, following his sudden death last week. In an interview with KKTV during his senior year of high school, Marchetti explained his career goals simply: “Making a difference. That’s kind of where I see…