College of Arts and Sciences

The students in Case Western Reserve University’s undergraduate Class of 2028 aren’t the only new faces on campus this semester. The university also welcomed new tenure-track and tenured faculty members to its ranks, including many at the College of Arts and Sciences. Earlier this semester, we aske...

As climate change accelerates, hurricanes are becoming more intense and destructive, bringing heavier rains, stronger winds and devastating storm surges. Hurricanes Helene and Milton serve as stark examples of this—both storms grew stronger due to the warmer waters of the Gulf of Mexico and left beh...

Scientists are trying to understand why the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere changed by about 90 parts per million (ppmv) between icy (glacial) and warmer (interglacial) periods in Earth’s history. This is a big question in climate research. Even though these cycles between cold and warm periods seem...

Case Western Reserve University faculty and students in the Department of Classics at the College of Arts and Sciences recently attended the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Ohio Classical Conference Columbus Academy in Gahanna, Ohio. During this two-day event, faculty and students in the fields of Gree...

Case Western Reserve University is cultivating a new generation of scientists with the opening of its 30,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art biology laboratory classrooms and collaborative spaces. As part of Parent and Family Weekend (Sept. 27-29), President Eric W. Kaler, Deputy Provost Lee Thompson...

Brendan Silva’s research is personal. As a United States Army veteran who served from 2016 to 2020, Silva saw firsthand the toll combat can have on soldiers’ mental health. Now, after transfering to Case Western Reserve University in early 2023, Silva is a senior studying psychology—specifically h...

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) can produce text and images so realistic that it’s sometimes hard to distinguish them from human creations. How does it do that? Surprisingly, AI is powered by elementary school math, such as addition and multiplication. The Department of Mathematics, Applied Ma...

Postdoctoral fellow Tobias Mistele’s research is expanding our understanding of galaxies, dark matter and modified gravity. But Mistele, who came to Case Western Reserve University from Germany, wouldn’t be doing this work if he hadn’t gotten “sidetracked” after initially training as a theoretical p...

Kathryn C. Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs in the Department of Political Science at the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently among the collaborators on a volume of Constructing Global Challenges in World Politics (NY: Routledge, 2024). The book’s contributors, fr...

School photo day: A tradition amongst school children throughout generations. Many Case Western Reserve University faculty and staff remember the days of picking out just the right outfit to wear and hoping they didn’t have a poorly timed bad hair day. Afterall, those photos were featured in yearboo...