University News
May 21, 2012
The heart of the Pebble watch, which has gathered more investment money than any Kickstarter project in the crowd-funding website’s history, was designed and built by a 2009 Case Western Reserve University graduate. Andrew Witte, who earned a computer engineering degree here, is the brains behind…
May 21, 2012
Gmail creator and alumnus Paul Buchheit (CWR ’98; GRS ’98, computer engineering) advised 1,750 Case Western Reserve University graduates to pursue their own dreams during Sunday’s commencement exercises. “You will find a lot of voices telling you which way to go or what to do and who to be,” he…
May 18, 2012
Case Western Reserve University Commencement Speaker Paul Buchheit (CWR ’98, GRS ’98) has given $50,000 to provide paid coaching to participants in the university’s club rowing program. Buchheit, a member of the team as an undergraduate, earlier committed $100,000 to support acquisition of a…
May 17, 2012
Taneisha Deans pushed and dug and climbed to success at a school she was unprepared for, and quietly cut a path for other inner-city scholars. On her first day in physics 101 at Case Western Reserve University, she realized she’d never even seen the math she needed for the course. She quickly…
May 17, 2012
Cyrus C. Taylor, PhD, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, Dean of the School of Medicine; Brian A. McDonald, Executive Director of the Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation; Nichelle Ruffin, 2012 Edwards Scholar; Thomas M. McDonald, Distribution Director, Joan C.…
May 17, 2012
A decade ago Al and Norma Lerner made a historic $100 million commitment to advance medical education of a special kind of doctor—the physician-scientist. Neither a practitioner who only spent time in the office or operating room, nor a researcher who logged every hour in the laboratory, this…
May 16, 2012
Michael Knight is a student who makes people shake their heads and ask, “How do you do it?” He led the Student National Medical Association, gave vocal coaching to members of Doc Opera and volunteered in Cleveland’s neighborhoods. That’s just a few of activities that Knight, a 2012 graduate of the…
May 16, 2012
In the final weeks of his struggle with mesothelioma, Gary M. Michal, PhD, LTV Steel Professor of Metallurgy in Case School of Engineering’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, could no longer come to the classroom. But his commitment to his students was so great he insisted on…
May 15, 2012
Patrick Chirdon came to Case Western Reserve planning to major in psychology. Four years later, he is still focused on the inner workings of the mind, except now the biology of the brain commands his interest. Credit the influence of compelling biology professors and an extraordinary faculty…
May 15, 2012
Nathan Buckner, of Hunter, Utah, sits in the Case Western Reserve University dental clinic, turning pages of a photo book from a mission he took to Lamay, Peru, with 16 Case Western Reserve students and faculty. He’s a bit nostalgic as graduation approaches Sunday, May 20, and he closes this…