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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…

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…

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…

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…

Distinguished University Professor Richard W. Hanson, a world-renowned scientist deeply revered by his students and colleagues, died Friday after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 78. Dubbed by one scientific publication as the “maestro of metabolism,” he achieved remarkable…

Joseph Pyles (SAS '52), a longtime faculty member of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, passed away at the age of 94. Well-known in Northeast Ohio as a social worker at the Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Families, the Catholic Counseling Center of…

Services will be held on campus this Saturday in memory of longtime biomedical engineering professor Roger Marchant, who died last week at the age of 62. Marchant, who earned his master’s and doctoral degrees at Case Western Reserve, spent his entire professional career at the university. In…

Gretchen Garnett, alumna and assistant professor emerita of music, died Dec. 15, just one day before her 100th birthday. Garnett was a longtime faculty member in and supporter of the Department of Music. As an undergraduate at Western Reserve University, Garnett was a soprano soloist. She sang the…

Morrell “Bo” Heald, a professor for 35 years at Case Institute of Technology and Case Western Reserve University, died at age 91 on Jan. 3 in Mitchellville, Md. Heald served as the Samuel C. and Virginia B. Knight Professor of Humanities at CWRU from 1982 until his retirement in 1988. Heald was…