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In early June, a Case Western Reserve University student will bring an adventurous spate of creators and performers from around the country to Cleveland for a festival of new and experimental music. Sophie Benn Re:Sound, now in its second year, is staged by the Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CU...

This Sunday, May 19, approximately 2,000 Case Western Reserve University students will take part in commencement ceremonies, beginning with the university-wide convocation at 9:30 a.m. in the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic Center and followed by diploma ceremonies throughout the day. Be...

For most of her time as a mathematics undergraduate at Idaho State University, Jenny Hawkins was a shy student with an aversion to talking to her professors as strong as her determination to earn straight A's in their classes. Finally, in her junior year, a professor’s effort to ease Hawkins’ core...

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professor Harold Connamacher wins Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Harold Connamacher has been called a “master teacher” by one colleague, a professor with “lifelong impact” by another, and simply “the most approachable professor I ev...

The business world’s loss has been a significant gain for students at Case Western Reserve University and the School of Medicine. Monica Gerrek, assistant professor of bioethics, had taken a philosophy course as an undergraduate but opted for the ostensibly safer choice of pursuing a business degre...

A Case Western Reserve undergraduate taking a May term class in Israel died Wednesday after being pulled from a natural spring in one of the country’s national parks. Lifeguards on site immediately contacted emergency services and performed CPR, but were unable to revive Xinling Yuan. He was 20 yea...

When Brian Gran began his career in academia nearly 20 years ago, “collaboration” wasn’t as common a term or practice as it is today. But his areas of expertise—law and society, human rights and health policy—couldn’t fit into a single discipline if they were to be taught effectively, Gran said. In...

Having never led a classroom before, Maggie Vinter moved to Japan in her early 20s to become a teacher of English as a second language to middle schoolers. “Seeing students go from not knowing to knowing—experiencing ideas as brand new—I found a love for teaching,” said Vinter, assistant professor...

When Lin Mei decided to go into medicine, he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Both had careers in the field: his mother in cardiology and his father in public health. But after medical school in China and a one-year internship that exposed him to various specialties in medicine, he felt he...

During his four years at Case Western Reserve University, senior Raul Arturo Hernandez-Gonzalez has been highly involved, leaving his mark in a variety of ways as a student leader. A major part of his undergraduate experience has been the Math Club, which he led as president for two years, working ...