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A natural sciences and world literature double major. An award-winning student entrepreneur. A nationally renowned figure skater. Meet William Littlefield. Littlefield has long excelled in academics, but it's his interests outside the classroom that might be most impressive. Littlefield began figu...

This fall, Cassi Pittman returned home to Cleveland—the place that sparked her inquiring mind—to teach as an assistant professor of sociology just miles from the places she first learned about the relationship among race, economics and inequality. A native of East Cleveland, Pittman grew up on a ra...

As University Program Board (UPB) president, senior Erika Brentar has a hand in planning many of Case Western Reserve University’s events each year. She works to organize students groups, live music and more to provide memorable events for the undergraduate student body. And although she didn’t coor...

Since it opened in August, the Tinkham Veale University Center already has played host to some impressive names, including rock band OK GO, Inamori Ethics Prize recipient Denis Mukwege and YouTube sensation Laci Green. Still more will visit the new venue in coming weeks. Upcoming visitors include O...

Dale Nenadal started working on campus before it was even Case Western Reserve University. In 1967—just before the federation of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University—he joined the Western Reserve staff as an electrician’s assistant at the age of 19. Since then, he’s seen a nu...

Senior Taylor Gladys has been an advocate for students at Case Western Reserve University since she first stepped foot on campus more than three years ago. The biochemistry (pre-med) major joined Undergraduate Student Government (USG) as a first-year—serving as a representative for Tyler House—and ...

Earlier this summer, senior Gabe Ewing traveled to Arlington, Va., for the 2014 World Open chess tournament. Though he arrived with low expectations for success, he emerged from the seven-day competition a National Chess Master. Competing in the U-2200 rating section (the master level; the higher t...

Jennifer Sparrow is the first person to hold Case Western Reserve University’s newly developed position of Director of Online and Innovative Learning. The university’s new position makes it possible to use technology to advance the core mission and visions of the institution. Since she arrived on ca...

In June, Peter de Blank, assistant professor in pediatric oncology and hematology, added a new accolade to his collection—the inaugural Francis S. Collins Award to research neurofibromatosis (NF). He was one of the first two researchers to receive the prestigious honor sponsored by the Neurofibroma...

After every basketball practice during her sophomore year at Central Michigan University, Amy Backus went home and logged each drill her team performed that day. That’s when it hit her: Her aspirations changed from becoming a high school teacher and coach to coaching at the collegiate level. “Arou...