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On Tuesday, June 8, Case Western Reserve University will celebrate its ninth annual Day of Giving—a one-day effort to inspire students, alumni, friends, faculty and staff to give back to the areas of the university most meaningful to them. Schools and departments are seeking support for various…

Inspired by a new College of Arts and Sciences program designed to spur interdisciplinary research, alumni Edward Hemmelgarn (WRC ’76, MGT ’80) and Janice Hammond (WRC ’75; GRS ’98, social welfare) have announced a $1 million pledge to support it. The couple’s pledge, to be fulfilled over a…

Case Western Reserve University Professor Emeritus Morris G. Shanker, an award-winning educator and legal scholar who passed away last August at the age of 93, designated a $2 million bequest to the School of Law to endow a chaired professorship to be named in his honor. Co-Deans Jessica Berg and…

Robert Herbold While Robert Herbold had multiple options for graduate school, Case Western Reserve University emerged as his top choice for two reasons: smaller class sizes and, more importantly, professors who embraced hands-on teaching practices.  Decades later, Herbold, who earned his MS in…

As Grover “Cleve” Gilmore prepares for retirement as dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the Mandel Foundation is recognizing his accomplishments through a $250,000 challenge grant to the Dean Grover “Cleve” Gilmore Scholarship Campaign at Case Western…

Barbara R. Snyder may no longer be Case Western Reserve’s president, but support for one of her top priorities continues to climb at a rate that exceeds even her famously high standards. Since Snyder stepped down Sept. 30, the scholarship campaign launched in her honor has grown by more than a…

Gift creates the vice provost and Lindseth Family University Librarian position as national search for Hirshon’s successor begins Arnold Hirshon After more than a decade as Case Western Reserve’s vice provost and university librarian, Arnold Hirshon will retire at the end of 2021. And in…

Case Western Reserve University School of Law has received funding commitments of over $1 million from the Stanton Foundation to establish a First Amendment Clinic and First Amendment Clinic Fellowship in the school’s Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center. With these commitments, the Stanton…

Case Western Reserve alumna Marian Shaughnessy (NUR ’85, ’17) understood the power of nurses to transform health care. Her vision led to the creation of a leadership academy at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing named in her honor—and this week, in recognition of the first anniversary of…

This week, eight institutes and centers across Case Western Reserve University are launching a coordinated crowdfunding campaign designed to highlight specific needs in each of the areas while promoting their most innovative and collaborative work. The Think Big: Institutes and Centers Campaign is…