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Until he became an instructor himself, James “Jim” Spilsbury thought the quality of a college course was strictly up to the professor. But once in that role, while teaching his first few anthropology classes at Case Western Reserve University, it quickly dawned on him: The success of a course is as...

As one of the biggest milestones for the Class of 2020 approaches, we’re filled with mixed emotions—excitement for our grads and sadness that we cannot all be together, in-person, celebrating this day from the commencement stage. But, that won’t stop us from celebrating. Make no mistake—our virtual...

At first blush, the word that Tim Goler uses to describe his mentor, Eva Kahana—as “family”—would seem to belie their dissimilar backgrounds. Kahana is a Hungarian Jewish refugee who survived Nazi occupation, the Holocaust and a brutal Communist rule in her native country to become a sociology scho...

This year, we can’t celebrate the accomplishments of our graduates in person, but members of the university community are finding new ways to recognize them, including the virtual commencement ceremony to be held Sunday, May 17. To honor the Class of 2020’s hard work during their time at Case Weste...

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve, is among the leading global authorities in medical-image analysis, computational pathology and artificial intelligence in precision medicine. But Madabhushi, director of the Center for Computational ...

Diana Driscoll likes to ask her students, “Why do we care?” The inspiration for that challenge came from a former student who ended each class by asking her that same question. “He was not being disrespectful,” she said. “He really wanted to understand the connection between physics and real life....

After graduating from Case Institute of Technology in 1969 with a BS in electrical engineering, Larry Sears (CIT ‘69) founded Hexagram Inc., a business-to-business company that developed and manufactured a range of electronic systems and controls for a variety of customers. After 35 years in industr...

Case Western Reserve University will host a virtual commencement ceremony Sunday, May 17, the originally scheduled date for the event. The virtual convocation ceremony will consist of video messages from university leaders and commencement speakers, along with official degree conferral. School dipl...

In lieu of our traditional commencement ceremonies, Case Western Reserve University will hold a virtual commencement celebration online Sunday, May 17. The virtual convocation ceremony will consist of video messages from university leaders and commencement speakers, along with official degree conf...

As a seven-time Emmy Award-winning commercial broadcaster, William F. Baker helped launch such household names as Oprah Winfrey, presided over New York Public Television’s heyday as the nation’s pre-eminent producer of arts, nature, biography and public-affairs programming and helped create the Disc...