University News
January 25, 2012
Brad Ricca, a SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University who teaches classes on comic books and biography, is earning accolades for a more traditional form of literature: poetry. Among those accolades is the honor of having Garrison Keillor personally select his poem “The Beautiful Sandwich”…
January 16, 2012
Employees in Kelvin Smith Library’s Freedman Center are used to preserving major life moments, as people regularly bring in home video footage or audio reels to be converted to today’s listening and viewing formats. But when a Glenville High School student brought in a reel-to-reel audio recording…
January 10, 2012
The expanding universe. The developing mind. Emerging life. Advancing medicine. At first glance these wide-ranging topics seem unconnected. They are, in fact, encompassed in the science of origins, the spectrum of diverse scientific disciplines that seeks to understand how complex systems emerge…
December 19, 2011
Milena Sterio and Michael Scharf Case Western Reserve University Law Professor Michael Scharf and Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Professor Milena Sterio traveled halfway around the world to the Seychelles Islands. They weren't there for the sun and surf, though; they…
December 18, 2011
As the end of the year nears, “best of” lists and rankings compilations make their way onto nearly every news site—not to mention your Facebook news feed. Lately, word has spread quickly via social media about Case Western Reserve University’s high rankings on the college-search site…
December 13, 2011
The 2011 Spartan football team went 9-1 and won the Academic Bowl. Photo by Chip Valleriano. Case Western Reserve University’s football team will join the Presidents’ Athletic Conference as an affiliate member at the start of the 2014 season. While the program will maintain its affiliation with…
December 12, 2011
Facilities manager Dave Conger (third from left) shows the new machine work to Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Chair Iwan Alexander, Case School of Engineering Dean Norman S. Tien and engineering’s associate dean of finance and administration Laura Bulgarelli. At Case Western…
December 12, 2011
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community have offered more than 100 Bright Ideas since the university launched its online suggestion box last month. From composting to co-ops, energy-saving measures to equipment updates, the responses show that people at Case Western Reserve really…
December 06, 2011
Dorothy Ebersbach applied to the Women Airforce Service Pilots in 1943, when this photograph was taken. A pioneering female aviator who served her country during World War II has made a gift to Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing—a gift that combines her love…
November 29, 2011
American art historian and Case Western Reserve University art history professor Henry Adams has written extensively about painters like Thomas Hart Benton, Thomas Eakins, Jackson Pollock, Andrew Wyeth and Grant Wood. Now he turns his attention to photographer Abe Frajndlich, whose images of major…