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Whether through his scholarly work or his interactions with colleagues and students, Gilbert Doho’s concern for others was evident throughout his 20 years at Case Western Reserve. “Gilbert Doho was formed of passion and decisiveness, yes,” said colleague Denise Caterinacci, senior instructor of It...

James C. Wyant, a 1965 alumnus who transformed lives as an academic, entrepreneur and philanthropist, died Friday after fighting Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)—the neurodegenerative condition also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 80 years old. “Jim Wyant believed passionately in the power...

Whether strategizing how to tackle building renovations, helping facilitate biomedical research or performing music at venues across Cleveland, William “Bill” Marx was often known as a jack of all trades. Now, members of the Case Western Reserve University are remembering this multifaceted staff mem...

If you were in a room with Derian Dominguez, you’d have known it before even seeing him. The business management student, who was entering the final year of his undergraduate degree program, brought a certain liveliness to every space he entered, his friends recalled. “Whether it be a night out on...

The Case Western Reserve University community is mourning the loss of staff member Amad Awadallah, who died July 22. He was 50. Awadallah got his start at the university as an undergraduate student in the fall of 1991. During that time, he worked as a work study student in the Caplan Lab, housed w...

Clark Distelhorst, a long-standing faculty member of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology, the Department of Medicine at University Hospitals and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, passed away July 3. His wife, Lynne, shared that Distelhorst was activ...

The Case Western Reserve University community is mourning the loss of groundskeeper James Bossard, who died June 2. He was 64. When Bossard began working at the university more than 30 years ago, it marked a new chapter in an extensive family legacy. Bossard’s great grandfather, Emil, was the form...

In September, Brian Bowers took on a role that had long been in flux: that of the box office manager at Case Western Reserve University’s Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center. An inherently busy position made even more challenging by a transition to a new ticketing system, the opportunity e...

As a second-shift security officer in the Wolstein Research Building, Officer Theodore Jones was a friendly face to many at Case Western Reserve University. Now, members of the campus community are remembering Jones, who died April 12 after a battle with cancer. He was 72. “Officer Jones was a valu...

The Case Western Reserve University community is mourning the loss of emeritus chemical engineering faculty member John Angus, who died late last month. He was 88. Angus, who served the university for more than 40 years, was one of four faculty members hired in 1963 to restart the Department of Che...