University News
July 09, 2021
This Sunday, 216 first-year students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will be welcomed into the school’s community of healers during their White Coat Ceremony. The event is a rite of passage for incoming medical students, as the physician’s white coat is a powerful symbol of…
July 06, 2021
Gift makes collection available for public access and education The Karamu House guest book alone is extraordinary, with such signatories as Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, musicians from Duke Ellington's Orchestra and visitors from across the globe. The theatre’s historic…
June 28, 2021
Dawn Brown with Spartie Dawn Brown didn’t have to go far to get vaccinated this spring—she was already at Case Western Reserve’s site, as a volunteer. “I like being involved,” explained Brown, a grants and finance specialist in the Department of Biochemistry. “[B]eing vaccinated would allow me to…
June 22, 2021
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…
June 22, 2021
Harry Hawkins This month is Pride Month—recognized annually each June in commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a series of uprisings in response to police raids on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) spaces in New York City. These events are considered…
June 17, 2021
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…
June 17, 2021
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…
June 16, 2021
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…
June 10, 2021
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…
June 07, 2021
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…