College of Arts and Sciences

Case Western Reserve University historian Marixa Lasso received two prestigious fellowships—from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Humanities Center—to write a book about the forgotten history of the Panamanian towns that dotted the Canal Zone until a 1912 executive o...

The Case Western Reserve University Department of Dance will present Converging Pathways March 21, 22 and 23 at 8 p.m., with a 2:30 p.m. matinee March 24. All shows will be held at the Mather Dance Center. The dance thesis concert includes works by Master of Fine Arts candidates Carissa Bellando an...

Watching a loved one die tests some family members’ relationships with God. This spiritual anger and resentment increases with the level of pain and suffering their family member endures, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University. Psychologist Julie Exline and palliative care adva...

Update Monday, Feb. 25: The panel now can be viewed online. An idea emerging from research at Case Western Reserve University will be pulled from the ivory tower and placed squarely among executives from IDEO, Google and Udacity at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco today. Anthony Jack, as...

Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report Professor Lee Thompson takes an unusual approach to teaching her course “Life of the Mind,” a First Seminar in SAGES (the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship) at Case Western Reserve University. Thompson, chair of the Depart...

He started off as a young man from Akron with a love for music; years later, he worked the red carpet at the Grammys, rubbing elbows with some of the music industry’s elite. No, we’re not talking about a member of The Black Keys. We’re talking about Brian Sokol, who now serves as the executive dire...

A quest to link India to European Renaissance art yielded some surprising findings for Case Western Reserve University art historian Erin Benay. Benay discovered several undocumented and unpublished works, which she revealed recently in a presentation, "Repurposed Renaissance: Adaptation in Christi...

Longtime university mathematics professor Peter Kotelenez, an expert in stochastic differential equations, died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 69. A member of the Case Western Reserve faculty since 1990, Kotelenez published widely on stochastic differential equations, Brownian mo...