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Louis Stokes, Ohio’s first African-American congressman and an alumnus and faculty member of Case Western Reserve, died Tuesday with his wife, Jay, by his side. He was 90, and had been diagnosed with lung and brain cancer this summer. “Case Western Reserve, Cleveland and our entire country have los...

Services will be held this week for Ethan Schafer, PhD, (GRS '01, '04, psychology), an adjunct assistant professor of psychology who died unexpectedly Aug. 8 from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. He was 39. Schafer, a licensed child psychologist, specialized in treating children and adolescents with anx...

Case Western Reserve will remember Xiaoyang Zhao, a mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral student who died April 29, during a 2 p.m. service Wednesday, May 13, in Amasa Stone Chapel. He was 26. Zhao, an international student from China, excelled in his research involving fire safety and was...

Xiaoyang Zhao, a mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral student specializing in fire safety, died unexpectedly Wednesday evening. He was 26. An international student from China, Zhao enrolled at Case Western Reserve in 2011. He had earned his undergraduate degree that same year from the Univ...

Cara McManus was the kind of person whose energy filled a room. When she first came to Case Western Reserve three years ago, people immediately recognized a special soul. “Cara came to her interview sporting a bright red parasol,” said Rachel Inman, manager of the university’s graduate testing cent...

Services will be held Tuesday, Nov. 4, for Case Western Reserve Assistant Dean Kenneth L. Klika, a stalwart supporter of the College of Arts and Sciences, undergraduate and graduate students, and the university’s rowing club. Klika, who led space planning and facilities management for the college, ...

Faculty, staff and students in the Weatherhead School of Management’s MBA program will gather this morning to remember Rongrong “Daniel” Yang, a first-year MBA student who passed away Wednesday night. Yang, who would have celebrated his 33rd birthday next month, was found unresponsive in his apartm...

Friends and loved ones remembered Case Western Reserve employee Christopher “Chris” A. Malloy Sr. Wednesday during services at Blessed Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Cleveland. A skilled trades worker specializing in HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) service and repairs, he was 56....

Grace Brody, an emerita associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences who established an endowed professorship in 2007, passed away March 13 at the age of 98. Brody joined the faculty of the Mandel School in the late 1960s and retired in 1986. She was p...

Tanya I. Edwards, a faculty member who pioneered education in complementary and alternative medicine at Case Western Reserve and the broader community, died last week after a battle with breast cancer. She was just a day shy of her 54th birthday. Edwards earned her master’s degree in medical educat...