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Case Western Reserve University will host a memorial service for Robin Kramer, former chair of the Staff Advisory Council and effort reporting specialist in the Office of Research Administration, Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 4 p.m. in Amasa Stone Chapel. Kramer, a 21-year employee of Case Western Reserve,...

Robin Kramer, former chair of the Staff Advisory Council and effort reporting specialist in the Office of Research Administration, died Friday, Nov. 1. She was 58. A dedicated Case Western Reserve employee for 21 years, Kramer was known for her passion for serving the university and its employees. I...

Faculty Senate Chair and award-winning engineering faculty member Steven L. Garverick died suddenly Friday, Sept. 27. He was 56. Garverick, a member of the electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) faculty for more than two decades, distinguished himself strongly in teaching, research and ...

Antonio Candau, former chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, died Tuesday, Sept. 17. He was 51. Candau joined the Case Western Reserve faculty as an associate professor in 2001. A native of Madrid, he specialized in contemporary Spanish literature and culture, earning deep ad...

John Kennell, professor emeritus of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, passed away Aug. 27. He was 91. After earning his bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of Rochester, Kennell served in the U.S. Navy from 1947 to 1949 prior to entering residency at Harvard Medical School. Afte...

Wall Street trailblazer and Case Western Reserve honorary alumna Muriel “Mickie” Siebert, known as the "first woman of finance," died Aug. 24 from complications due to cancer. She was 84. Born in Cleveland in 1928, Siebert began her college career at Flora Stone Mather College for Women, now part o...

Joseph F. Fagan III, the Leffingwell Professor of Psychology and a leading researcher on infant intelligence, died Aug. 10. He was 71. Fagan joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in 1968, after earning his bachelor’s degree in English and psychology in 1963 from University of Hartfo...

Edward (“Ted”) A. Mearns Jr., professor emeritus of law, died July 3. Mearns served on Case Western Reserve University School of Law faculty from 1974 to 1988 and was a professor emeritus of law since his retirement. He also served as vice dean of the School of Medicine and as acting provost during...

F. Joseph Callahan, the legendary Cleveland-area business leader and philanthropist for whom the university’s distinguished lecture is named, died of natural causes Friday in Chagrin Falls. He was 89 years old. Born in his family home in Lima, Ohio, in 1923, Callahan went on to excel in high school...

There will be a memorial service in honor of Asim Erdilek, emeritus professor of economics, on Tuesday, May 7, at 4 p.m. at the Amasa Stone Chapel. Erdilek, who joined the faculty in 1971 as assistant professor of economics and later became a full professor before retiring as professor emeritus in ...