Publications + Presentations

Ahmad Khalil, assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences at the School of Medicine, has been selected to speak at the 16th Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium. The symposium, co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy o...

Students in the gross anatomy lab stand with trepidation before their human cadavers, uneasy about making that first cut, writes T. Kenny Fountain in his new book, Rhetoric in the Flesh: Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab (Routledge, 2014). The associate professor of Eng...

Earlier this month, more than 30 members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, also informally known as Case Hacker Society) traveled to the University of Michigan to attend MHacks, one of the largest student-run hackathons in the country. Hackathons are marathon coding gatherings where ...

Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently had her work, “Citizen Science: The Law and Ethics of Public Access to Medical Big Data” accepted for publication in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal....

Rhonda Williams, associate professor of history and founder/director of the Social Justice Institute, will be a featured panelist on a plenary titled, “Cities In Revolt: Detroit, Chicago, Jackson-Mississippi, & Beyond,” Sept. 25-28 at Kalamazoo College. The panelists will examine resistance movemen...

Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, presented testimony on “Constitutional Considerations: State vs. Federal Environmental Policy Implementation,” on July 11 in Washington, D.C. The testimony was presented before the subcommittee on Environment and the Economy of the Committ...

Cheryl Toman, associate professor of French and director of the women's and gender studies program and the ethnic studies program, co-authored a new book, The Fury and Cries of Women, published by the University of Virginia Press. The book is a unique work that includes a novel originally written in...

Miriam Levin, professor of history, spent May and June on a research trip to South Africa. She visited archives in the eastern Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal for a book on science teaching at foreign missionary schools for young women. This trip was funded by the Department of History’s Flora Stone Mather...

Sixteen students from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine ventured to the Dominican Republic July 26-Aug. 3 to offer free dental care to 262 patients—80 children and 182 adults. In their week of work, there were 416 extracted teeth and 99 fillings. A video compilation of mo...

Marie Lathers, Treuhaft Professor of French and Humanities, spent July participating in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute studying late American writer and essayist Flannery O’Connor. The institute was held at Georgia College in Milledgeville, where O'Connor lived. O’Connor e...