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Ali Suleiman Aujali, Libya’s ambassador to the United States, spoke at a dinner planned by Case Western Reserve students from Libya. When two dozen graduate students from Libya found themselves in a frightening state of limbo during last year’s civil war in their country, the Case Western Reserve…

For some, university-level mathematics can seem daunting. But for professor Erkki Somersalo, math is—and should be—a process that simplifies rather than complicates. Using a straightforward, stripped-down approach, Somersalo teaches students the subject in a way that makes even the most obscure…

Last week, a group of engineering students gathered in a small room off of Professor Mario Garcia-Sanz’s office to watch one helicopter after another fly—and, they hoped, not crash and burn. Each student took part in the extra-credit competition for Garcia-Sanz’s control engineering course: They…

Glenn Starkman says his style of mentoring graduate students is similar to the way he taught his children to ride their bikes: He stays hands-off until the moment they need him—and the second that happens, he’s there, waiting to catch them. That hands-off-until-necessary approach earned Starkman,…

Eileen Anderson-Fye hopped up from a discussion with her graduate students to find an answer to their question in her email. When she opened her inbox, she read the subject line of a new message aloud: “Diekhoff Award–Congratulations.” Immediately, the students started cheering, until she opened…

Images from the capsule's camera; edited video will be on display at Springfest. Members of a pair of new clubs at Case Western Reserve University sent a mock-up of an Apollo capsule nearly 100,000 feet above Earth twice in the last two weeks. The Case Lunabotics and Case Rocket teams…

Case Western Reserve University has joined a nationwide effort to pilot new technology designed to advance scientific research and reduce higher education costs. As part of the initiative, researchers will be able to send data 10 times faster than previously—at the rate of 100 Gigabits per…

Students from Case Western Reserve chat with students in Hong Kong via a telepresence screen. One Friday night this semester, nearly 20 social work master’s students entered a meeting room at Kelvin Smith Library and took their seats. Within minutes, the high-definition screen in the room lit up,…

It should come as no surprise that not every word that rolls off the tongue of a politician is completely accurate. Much of it is, of course, but some of it isn’t—and who can keep track? That’s where Timothy Beal comes in. Beal, the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion, recently launched his…

Yohannes Haile-Selassie has been making worldwide news recently, thanks to his latest fossil discovery that showed the famous early human ancestor “Lucy” had a close cousin—another pre-human species that existed at the same time and in the same region as Lucy but with a different method of…