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For two weeks last spring, Quentin Sims flew back and forth between Albany and Cleveland, alternating between taking exams as he completed his first year of law school and playing in Arena Football League games with the Albany Empire. Last month, the team secured the Arena Football…

Chrystal Russell didn’t have a role in recruiting the first-year students who are beginning their Case Western Reserve University careers this week. But next year will be a different story, and she’s already looking forward to it. In May, Russell started as the new director of…

After finance stints in New York City, London and San Francisco, Todd Schwarzinger has come back to Copley, Ohio. The draw, he likes to say, is dog food. After a few years of San Francisco’s sky-high cost of living, he and his wife, Stephanie, had been considering a move; the one hurdle was that…

When Jaime Bouvier decided to try aerial circus acts nine years ago, she wasn’t particularly good at it. In fact, she said it was a place for her to be bad at something she enjoyed doing. And, she noted, it helped give her a new perspective into her law students. She had only recently stepped…

Editor's note: This article has been updated to include the date and time of the service for McGuire. Richard McGuire, who was set to begin his fourth year as a student at the School of Dental Medicine, passed away this week from complications of sickle cell disease. He was 27. A native of…

Vice President for Research and Technology Management Suzanne Rivera was a 35-year-old mother of two when she started her PhD, but by that point, she had long worked in higher education, and more specifically, research administration. “After years of working as a university research administrator,…

Assistant professor and chair in environmental studies leading research into changing habits of butterflies in warming climate, with help of citizen scientists Sarah Diamond, an assistant professor in biology and the George B. Mayer Chair in Urban and Environmental Studies, has been awarded a…

As a junior in college, Jerrold Scott was immersed in British politics as a part of the English-Speaking Union’s exchange program. During that year, Scott was a Member of Parliament’s research assistant, writing some of his speeches that were given on the floor of the House of Commons. He even met…

Sarah Gridley believes children are natural-born poets, but they lose that sense of lyricism as they grow older and are taught that they must speak in a certain way. Keeping that poetic orientation, she said, is “a matter of holding on to that way of thinking and seeing and saying.” Gridley held…

As a musician, Ken Wendt realized the gear surrounding him and his instruments played a critical role in presenting his craft to the world. So Wendt, who plays trumpet and drums, immersed himself in a different side of music: the technology supporting it. As he learned more about the tech side,…