University News
February 27, 2012
A $5 million commitment to Case Western Reserve University’s Think[Box] program is among more than $11 million in gifts for the Case School of Engineering announced during this weekend’s Board of Trustees meeting. Trustee Larry Sears and his wife, Sally Zlotnick Sears, made their $5 million pledge…
February 20, 2012
Case Western Reserve University and Siegal College will combine their highly regarded adult education programs into a new initiative to launch this fall: the Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program at Case Western Reserve University. “This partnership draws on the strengths of each of our…
February 17, 2012
First-year Case Western Reserve University nursing student Darren Ting moves his bow across the cello’s strings to play “Sarabande” from Bach’s Cello Suite #1. When he finishes, eight students from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing help eighth graders in Mark Bair’s music class at Miles at…
February 14, 2012
The study abroad experience will have an added dimension for a handful of Case Western Reserve University students—a third dimension, to be precise. This summer, three to five classics students will spend a month in Rome, where they will create a virtual 3-D reconstruction of an ancient Roman…
February 14, 2012
Alexander P. Lamis, associate professor of political science, died Feb. 10 after a seven-month battle to overcome a reaction to medications. He was 65. Born May 10, 1946, in Charleston, S.C., Lamis earned his undergraduate degree in history from the College of Charleston, He went on to earn a…
February 10, 2012
Who would have thought trans fats could sneak into your diet? That dentists could dig up the dirt on evolution? Or that bicyclists could boost the local economy? The innovative researchers, thought leaders and status-quo challengers of Case Western Reserve University did. From discovering that…
February 08, 2012
One person can make a big difference. Erika Cheung, a senior at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, found that out on the Alaskan tundra far from the bustling urban crowds at Case Western Reserve University and her suburban hometown in Massachusetts. Just a few short weeks into her senior…
February 07, 2012
The students and faculty members meet with residents of Ngohe, Senegal. Just days before the start of spring semester, as many students were already back on campus or packing up in their hometowns, five seniors were halfway across the world in Africa, learning how residents of a remote village…
February 06, 2012
Photo by Lynn Saville. Long before the epicenter of the financial crisis shifted to the European Union (EU), Case Western Reserve University political scientist Elliot Posner had been studying the region’s financial arrangements and their international effects. This year, as an EU Affairs…
January 30, 2012
School of Law student Joel Simon stands outside Shaker LaunchHouse, where he meets with local entrepreneurs. Photo by Susan Griffth. Case Western Reserve University law student Joel Simon has been working closely with some of Northeast Ohio’s most determined entrepreneurs. At Shaker LaunchHouse, a…