Publications + Presentations

Daniel Melnick, a part-time SAGES lecturer, will publish his novel, The Ash Tree, on May 15, in conjunction with the centennial commemoration of the Armenian genocide, which began on April 24 a century ago in Ottoman Turkey. The novel recounts how a family of Armenian-Americans strives to build a n...

In response to the Supreme Court hearing on the nationalization of same-sex marriage equality, Joshua D. Lehrer, a junior undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University, published an op-ed in The Plain Dealer. Ohio is one of the four state plaintiffs in the hearing. Lehrer analyzed articles in t...

Mariana Carrera and Justin Gallagher, assistant professors of economics in the Weatherhead School of Management, recently published an op-ed in The Plain Dealer on the economic benefits of vaccinating children. Carrera and Gallagher’s approach examined why people opt out of vaccinating children, at...

Insoo Hyun, associate professor of bioethics and philosophy, addressed the Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C., on April 1. In his presentation, he spoke on the ethical issues surrounding preclinical research for mitochondrial replacement therapies being considered by the Federal Drug Adminis...

Alberto Costa, professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, reviewed a study titled, “Intracellular chloride accumulation: a possible mechanism for cognitive deficits in Down syndrome” in the April issue of Nature Medicine. The study, involving a mouse model of Down syndrome and analysis of h...

An article published by the Case Western Reserve Law Review, "Rules, Standards, and the Reality of Obviousness," by Brenda M. Simon (65 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 25), has been judged one of the best law review articles related to intellectual property law published within the past year. It has been selec...

Shannon Sterne, assistant professor of dance, will perform with her dance collective, the Cleveland Dance Exchange (CDX), in Cleveland Public Theatre’s DanceWorks Series April 9-11. A single evening-length work in 10 sections, “Top 10” was conceived, scripted, produced and managed by Sterne, who al...

Rhonda Williams, founder and director of the Social Justice Institute and associate professor of history, recently published a review in Southern Spaces, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal about the regions, places and cultures of the U.S. South and its global connections. In “Hijacking Public ...

Michael Goldberg, visiting assistant professor of design and innovation at Weatherhead School of Management, traveled to Greece in February for a TEDxHeraklion session with Alexis Komselis, director of the ALBA Hub for Enterprise & Development in Greece. Goldberg and Komselis collaborated to launch...

If Diane could reverse time, she never would have slammed the door—an act of teen frustration and ongoing family conflict that finally got her kicked out of her mother’s house. Thus began a cascade of events that, a few years later, led to her pregnancy at age 19. Diane is one of 108 teenage moms ...