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Engineering majors combine their passions to create digital musical instruments This spring, a small class of musically inclined engineering students learned how to bridge the gap between their passions for STEM and the creative arts when they signed up for the electrical, computer and systems engi...

Daven Sarikonda Undergraduate Daven Sarikonda got his COVID-19 vaccination because of his father. As a cardiac electrophysiologist in Toledo, Daven’s father regularly saw COVID-19 patients with potential heart issues. He worked long hours, suffered facial bruises from the tight medical masks, and ...

Case Western Reserve offers events, resources; university to close June 18 “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” Those words from Union Army Major General Gordon Granger in Galveston, Texas, on June ...

When Case Western Reserve University launched its first Day of Giving in 2013, the 795 donors who came together to give $195,745 smashed the university’s records both for the number of donors and the dollar amount raised in 24 hours. During last week’s ninth annual Day of Giving, nearly three times...

Diane Kube Dianne Kube is so eager to be back on campus that she even misses the smells of students’ experiments in her microbiology lab. Suruchi Ramanujan looks forward to actually getting to know classmates she’s mostly seen on Zoom since her classes started last summer. Laura Gorjanc can’t wai...

On Tuesday, June 8, Case Western Reserve University will celebrate its ninth annual Day of Giving—a one-day effort to inspire students, alumni, friends, faculty and staff to give back to the areas of the university most meaningful to them. Schools and departments are seeking support for various eff...

After the past 14 months, the word pandemic immediately evokes COVID-19—the infection that by May 1 had taken nearly 575,000 U.S. lives—and affected 32 million in this country. But it is only one of three we have endured, Convocation Speaker Marc Morial told Case Western Reserve graduates via recor...

As announced last month, required weekly COVID-19 surveillance testing ended Friday (May 28). The testing site in Horsburgh Gym is now closed; those who have COVID-19 symptoms should contact University Health Services for guidance. The university does plan to conduct large-scale surveillance testin...

Case Western Reserve to award degrees to undergraduates, multiple graduate/professional schools and honorary doctorate recipients The past 15 months have been filled with almost unimaginable changes. Members of the Class of 2021 have completed coursework in unconventional settings, found innovative...

When Oliver Poppenberg Sr. graduated from Case Institute of Technology in 1959, he felt confident his new credentials gave him a leg up on the competition. Now, 62 years later, his granddaughter, Sophia Poppenberg, feels the same way regarding her own. This weekend, Sophia will graduate from Poppenb...