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Alan Rocke is retiring, but it’s a little hard to tell. “There’s not much free time looking forward,” said Rocke, who taught the history of the physical sciences as a Distinguished University Professor and the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History. “Things won’t change much.” Though Rocke…

Olivia Ortega spent the summer between her junior and senior years crashing in the living room of a place she found on Craigslist in order to make interning at the immigration department of the International Rescue Committee in Oakland, California, a reality. While many would have balked at such…

As an athlete, Logan Glosser has always known the importance of eating well and exercising. So when deciding on a career path, nutrition seemed to be the obvious choice. The Toledo, Ohio, native opted to study at Case Western Reserve University, where he could continue his soccer career as a…

The first time Evan Ostrowski stepped foot on campus, he was immersed in one of Case Western Reserve University’s richest traditions—the Hudson Relays. As a high school senior, Ostrowski, now a chemical engineering student and member of the Class of 2017, paid his visit to CWRU on the day the…

Denise Caterinacci has an early childhood memory of wondering why the United States did not have a king. She recalls hearing her Italian grandparents, who immigrated to Cleveland in the early 1900’s, talk about monarchies who ruled their native country. Raised in a household bustling with visits…

After two years at Case Western Reserve University, Maia Delegal knew first hand the amount of stress college students can face, whether it be from academics, extracurricular activities, missing home or some combination of those and other factors. That’s when she realized something was missing on…

The past four months have been busy for Temi Omilabu. When she wasn’t setting new university track and field records—which she promptly broke again and again—she was planning tonight’s Spring Comedian Show, featuring Demetri Martin and Michael Che. As the University Program Board’s director of…

Dayton Snyder is as comfortable on the football field as a defensive lineman as he is in the classroom, where the senior biomedical engineering major has maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA. In recognition of his excellence both on and off the field, Snyder recently won an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.…

Rebekah Camp was a first-year student in a creative writing class when news broke of Ariel Castro’s arrest in the abductions of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus. Camp had just been tasked with an intriguing prompt: Write something from the mind of a serial killer. Building off the…

When the Ohio Music Education Association sought outstanding teachers and mentors to recognize with its annual honor, Gary Ciepluch’s former students inundated the organization with nominating letters. In all, 42 letters were submitted in honor of Ciepluch, each one detailing the impact he had on…