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Sara Lee may be new to the role of director of health services at Case Western Reserve University, but she’s no stranger to the university. Lee graduated from the School of Medicine in 2001 and started working as an attending physician at University Health Service in 2008. But years before, during ...

Students and colleagues across campus are remembering Todd (TJ) McCallum, associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, for his warm, caring nature and positive spirit. After a yearlong battle with a chronic illness, McCallum passed away Dec. 5. McCallum, who joined Case Western ...

Aaron Aguilar almost missed his chance to play football. Worried about the injuries he might suffer, his father wouldn’t let him take the field. But Aguilar was determined to play, so in eighth grade, his mother snuck him out of the house to sign up for Junior All-American Football. “Ever since the...

As the clock was winding down during the Case Western Reserve University Spartans’ football game against the Carnegie Mellon University Tartans last Saturday, it seemed as though the team’s season was coming to an end. But with just 28 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, a punt block by senior...

When Oghenerukeme Asagba began interviewing applicants for a job at her family’s store in Nigeria, the then-high schooler became overwhelmed. But it wasn’t by the responsibility of selecting a potential employee; it was the realization that, despite having high school diplomas, many of them lacked t...

Nurse entrepreneur’s homemade innovation may soon be available worldwide As an operating room nurse, Jill Byrne saw how heat shortened the tempers and focus of stressed, sweating surgeons. “When even brilliant and confident surgeons look like they’ve been in a dunk tank, you worry about their disco...

Adorning Mike Fisher’s Brooklyn, New York, apartment is a print of Cleveland’s skyline he bought years ago on Etsy, a global online marketplace of which he is now chief technology officer. Since taking the executive-level position in August, the skyline has served as a workweek reminder of his Nort...

"What do you think an addict is?" That was the question Sheryl Hirsh, assistant director of the Laura and Alvin Siegal Jewish Lifelong Learning Program, posed to more than 100 law enforcement officials at the Ohio Attorney General's Law Enforcement Conference last fall. Some answers included: “dish...

Edwin Pacheco Colón had never heard his mother so scared. Calming her as she crouched in her room, he stayed on the line while Hurricane Maria battered her home and the rest of Puerto Rico. Then, silence. For days. And not just from his mother—nothing came from family members spread around the isl...

Services will be held this weekend for an emeritus professor and three-time alumnus who made a major impact on Case Western Reserve University and on the field of engineering. Harry W. Mergler, a member of the university’s faculty for more than 30 years, died last month at the age of 93. As a child...