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March 04, 2020
Article provided by CWRU Athletics. Read the original on their website. Senior David Hall, a member of the men's cross country team, has been selected as a fall recipient of the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, awarded to student-athletes across all three NCAA divisions who excel academically and…
February 28, 2020
When Case Western Reserve University looked to launch a
Master of Public Health program two decades ago, the School of Medicine found
its first leader in Scott Frank, then on the medical school faculty, director
of health for the City of Shaker Heights and a family physician at…
February 25, 2020
From her own
experience as a nurse, spanning bedside to boardroom, Marian Shaughnessy saw firsthand how nurses could help reform and
redesign health care to make treating people more patient-centered,
cost-effective and accessible—if empowered to do so. Marian Shaughnessy It was while
completing…
February 21, 2020
Throughout her 15-year career at Case Western Reserve University, Darlene Barnes was known for her humor, dedication and thoughtfulness—qualities that impacted not just her colleagues but youth from across Cleveland, as she worked as the department assistant for the university’s FOCUS Group’s TRIO…
February 19, 2020
Nikhil Krishnan describes his educational journey as a mix of math and medicine. After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics from Case Western Reserve University, he went on to pursue a medical degree at the School of Medicine. “I’ve been fascinated with math since grade school,” he said, “and…
February 04, 2020
Case Western Reserve research leader Suzanne M. Rivera will
become Macalester College’s 17th
president in June, its board chair announced Monday. “Dr. Rivera has distinguished herself through her work as an
ethicist; her record of advancing the values of service, internationalism,…
January 23, 2020
Tomorrow the campus community is invited to remember law school alumnus Phillip “Phil” Ranney, whose exceptional philanthropic service made him one of a select group to receive the President’s Award for Visionary Achievement (PAVA). “Phil’s sincerity and fundamental decency inspired me from…
January 17, 2020
Photo credit: Daniel Milner It’s showtime for Charley Knox. Associate astronomer in the Department of Astronomy and a fixture at Case Western Reserve University for nearly 50 years, Knox (CIT ’74, astronomy; GRS ’78, physics) will spend this weekend inside the projection booth at Strosacker…
January 15, 2020
President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the appointment of an accomplished scientist and academic leader as the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Joy K. Ward, an associate dean for research and dean’s professor at the University of Kansas (KU), will…
January 14, 2020
Jonathan Arms had an insatiable thirst for knowledge. When he was 9, he asked his mom to purchase Minecraft—not so he could play it, like other kids his age, but so he could use it to teach himself programming. He taught himself Russian in high school—a language he continued studying as a Case…