Publications + Presentations

Case Western Reserve University religious studies professor, author Timothy Beal’s new book offers ‘palliative hope’ amid climate crisis threatening human extinction Author and Case Western Reserve University religious studies professor Timothy Beal offers humanity a bit of advice amid what many se...

Juscelino Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law and a professor of political science, recently published a book he co-authored Restructuring Trade Deals. Colares said that to avoid trade-bargain erosion, countries involved in large-scale, bilateral or regional trade arrangeme...

Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University, recently wrote an article investigating women’s routes toward executive political leadership in the European Union. Published as a chapter of the book Women and Leadership in the European Union,...

Timothy Beal, the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University, recently received positive reviews on his newest book, When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene. Publishers Weekly described Beal’s book as a “deconstruct(ion) of human exceptionalism” that ...

Angela Clark-Taylor, executive director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, penned an article titled “Recovering Through Service: Meaning Making and Resiliency to Trauma.” The Journal of College and Character recently published her piece. Clark-Taylor’s article examines how to help college ...

Awais Aftab, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, spoke at an Origins Science Scholars virtual lecture in May. The presentation, titled “COVID-19 and Depression: When Does Depression Become a Disorder,” offered new insight into the interp...

Ashleigh Schaffer, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, published a research article, titled “Suppression of Premature Transcription Termination Leads to Reduced mRNA Isoform Diversity and Neurodegeneration,” in ...

The Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine invited Arnold I. Caplan, professor of biology, to present the keynote lecture at its eighth International Experimental Biology and Medicine Conference, which was held in Memphis, Tennessee, April 29-May 1. Caplan’s presentation, titled “The PAST, ...

Kathryn C. Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Associate Professor of World Affairs and author of “The Challenges of Multilateralism,” was interviewed on multilateralism to recognize the International Day of Multilateralism by The Young Journal of European Affairs (YJEA), a junior political science jo...

Thomas LaFramboise, associate professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and a team of researchers published an article in Nature Communications in February. Titled “Circulating Microbial Content in Myeloid Malignancy Patients ...