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As soon as Joy Bostic heard Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy award-winning album DAMN., she knew she had to develop a class around it. It became the basis for her well-received “Religion and Popular Culture” course. “He was speaking to so many feelings I was having, and I really understood he’s speaking to ...

Susan McClary’s passion for music began in the cradle. Her father, believing knowing classical music to be the key to upward mobility, played it for his daughter day and night. As she got older, McClary further explored music by learning to play the piano and violin, cementing her future career ear...

A small car made of K’NEX pieces lit up—first in blue, then red and finally green. Then it zipped along a driveway, moving left, right, forward and backward—all controlled by Austin Wilson’s voice and Alexa, the virtual assistant developed by Amazon. Though he was only 16 years old, Wilson’s abil...

Angela Miller knows firsthand how transformative study abroad experiences can be. Miller’s own educational endeavors in Europe, Africa and India transformed her life and inspired her to help others to have similar experiences. She brings her passion for international education to Case Western Re...

Staring at the grade on her first computer science test in high school, Dasani Madipalli was upset. Facing a significant learning curve as she entered the field, she had struggled with the challenging coursework. Spotting her distress, Madipalli’s teacher approached her with encouragement. So she s...

After Enyou Wang’s first acting class at Case Western Reserve University two years ago, the instructor, theater lecturer Anaya Farrell, pulled him aside. She immediately recognized his innate fashion sense and authentic presence—that inexplicable “it” factor—and asked if he was a model. He wasn’t, b...

Nearly 1,400 students make up the Class of 2022, each with their own interesting stories to share. We recently caught up with one of them to get an inside look at her life before Case Western Reserve, and what it’s like here on campus. Emily Milner, a first-year student from Palo Alto, California, ...

Whether members of the Case Western Reserve University community knew Pete Babic personally or not, they’ve likely interacted with a key part of his work. As an applications developer in University Technology, Babic developed and managed the Software Center. This week, University Technology staff a...

Over the summer, junior Devina Patel left her hometown of Cleveland for an internship in Washington, D.C. She came back armed with legal knowledge, a passion for criminal justice, and an inspiration for what she hopes will become a new student organization. Patel, an English and finance major on th...

Bob and his wife, Brenda, committed $20 million in 2017 to support biomedical engineering Alumnus Robert “Bob” Aiken, who last year committed $20 million with his wife, Brenda, to support the university’s biomedical engineering efforts, died Monday at his home just west of Philadelphia. He was 88. ...