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Gavin Hanson, a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), was known for his intelligence and quick wit, whether with a joke or a hypothesis. In fact, those who worked with him consider him among the most intelligent people they’ve ever known. But for all his smarts, he was still…

Anthony Wynshaw-Boris can’t recall a time when he didn’t know he would have a career in medicine. It was just something he feels like he was “almost born with”—fitting for researcher who would go on to study genetics. With a career at the intersection of pediatrics and genetics, Wynshaw-Boris, the…

Alvin Siegal, a Case Western Reserve alumnus and generous university supporter, died Tuesday at his home in Pepper Pike. He was 95. A Cleveland native and graduate of the city’s John Adams High School, Siegal served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Upon his return, he attended what was then…

In Maya Rao’s acceptance letter to Case Western Reserve, an admission counselor included a suggestion: Rao should consider joining Undergraduate Student Government should she choose the university. She took that advice to heart. Upon arriving on campus that fall, she became a first-year…

Child-star-turned-law-professor Charlie Korsmo returns (briefly) to acting, co-starring in his first role in 20 years At the height of his acting career in the early 1990s, Charlie Korsmo abandoned acting and became a lawyer—and later a law professor at Case Western Reserve University. Most of his…

Weatherhead School of Management Professor Bill Mahnic (MGT ’90) was known across Case Western Reserve—whether for his approachable nature in undergraduate finance classes, his friendly greetings to colleagues in the halls of the Peter B. Lewis Building, or the solid advice he gave faculty and…

As she watched a group of upperclassmen break into a flashmob-esque dance, Natalie Nielsen turned to a fellow then-new first-year student next to her and said: “I want to do that.” And this week—for the third straight year—Nielsen was alongside fellow orientation leaders, or OLs, for the tradition…

Last summer, undergraduate student Chris Carr spotted a “smudge” on deep sky images taken from the university’s Burrell Schmidt telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in southwest Arizona. It was so faint he hardly saw it. But he flagged it for Astronomy Professor Chris Mihos, with whom he’d…

Susan Petrone compares the feeling she got when holding a hard copy of her first published novel to holding one’s child for the first time. And, though she said she realizes it’s not quite the same, it still is “pretty darn good.” “Obviously you have editors and publishers and art designers and…

One need not travel far to see where Professor of Art History and Art Elina Gertsman found inspiration for her new book, The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (Cambridge University Press, 2018). All of the 50 pieces that she and her co-author, Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University, Chicago), explore in…