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5 questions with… retiring Mandel School faculty member, study abroad leader Debby Jacobson
When Debby Jacobson had the opportunity to travel to the Netherlands as a faculty leader for a study abroad course in 2005, she urged her oldest son, Bernie—then a first-year student at Case Western Reserve University—to participate. She wasn’t sure when an opportunity like that would come up again....
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5 questions with… Zechariah “Zack” Jenkins, a student in the PRIME program
Zechariah “Zack” Jenkins distinctly remembers the moment he knew he wanted to pursue a new career. Sitting in a bunker with mortars coming at it while deployed in the Middle East, he realized it just wasn’t what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Though he had just signed on for more time in...
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5 questions with… sophomore, League of Legends team captain Joseph “Josh” Laurienzo
The five-member Case Western Reserve University League of Legends team is rarely in one place at the same time; each plays the strategy game from their own corners of campus. But together, they work to take control of the opposing team’s base on the gaming map. The team’s strong season continues t...
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First-year student Justine Boyle passes away
Case Western Reserve today is mourning the loss of Justine Boyle, a first-year student who passed away off campus early Tuesday. She was 18. Boyle had just returned from a spring break trip to Greece that was part of the Classics course “Athens: In Search of Socrates.” She was one of 13 students w...
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5 questions with… senior basketball player, Jostens Trophy nominee Hillary Hellmann
During her four years on the Case Western Reserve University women’s basketball team, senior guard/forward Hillary Hellmann has left a mark on the team, and in the record books. In 99 games during her collegiate career—90 as a starter—Hellmann collected 1,593 points, second in team history, and a re...
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Samuel H. Miller, alumnus and long-time business and philanthropy leader, dies at 97
Samuel H. Miller, a 1941 Case Western Reserve alumnus who became one of Cleveland’s most influential business leaders, died Thursday. He was 97 years old. Samuel Miller in a CWRU archives photo, circa 1939 The son of immigrants who grew up poor and speaking only Russian and Yiddish, Miller was abl...
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5 questions with… sophomore, Shave It Off participant Nedal Eid
Each year for the past seven, sophomore nutrition major Nedal Eid has grown out his hair in anticipation of the one day he’ll have it all cut off. That day is today (March 8). Eid will participate in the Shave It Off fundraiser for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, an organization that supports childhood ...
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Remembering Senior Director of National Development William Grimberg
William C. Grimberg Case Western Reserve development leader William C. Grimberg died Tuesday after several months of bravely enduring illness. Visiting hours begin this afternoon for the 70-year-old father of four and grandfather of nine, whose career spanned Cleveland’s arts, education and health ...
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5 questions with… art history student, fellowship winner Tori Laser
In her art history and museum studies master’s program at Case Western Reserve University, Tori Laser is accustomed to being able to see—but not touch—history. Now, with support from a Rowfant Club of Cleveland fellowship, Laser is able to hold centuries-old books at Kelvin Smith Library in her hand...
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5 questions… with Allison Meyer, a storytelling project founder and second-year law student
Update: Meyer was named one of six finalists for her project, earning $2,000 in prize money. Allison Meyer took the stage at an open mic night a year and a half after her mother passed away, finally feeling ready to talk about it after months of struggling to do so. She walked off stage feeling a r...