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SAGES fellow wins poetry award, book publication
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”…
Freedman Center helps unearth recording of MLK visit to Cleveland
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…
Origins scholars to be featured on new PBS series
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…
CWRU, CSU law professors help prosecute piracy in the Indian Ocean
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…
Survey says: CWRU students some of the smartest in the land
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…
CWRU football gains affiliate membership in Presidents’ Athletic Conference
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…
Keeping up shop: Staff-led initiative promotes safety in campus shops
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…
University responds to campus community’s Bright Ideas
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…
Female WWII pilot gives $2 million to flight nursing program
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…
Art history professor writes introduction to book on CWRU-connected photographer
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…