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Catherine "Kitty" Borchert was 9 when the Case Institute of Technology (CIT) persuaded her father to leave a New York photographic company to lead the Cleveland science and engineering school. Her connection to the campus would continue for most of the next seven decades, as she earned two graduat...

Thomas Peterson appreciated faculty who shared his curiosity, creativity Drew Adams, an assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, with Thomas Peterson Thomas Peterson loved laboratories. Whether the site of invention was a high-tech space in the Biomedical Research B...

Peter Gerhart, longtime professor and former dean of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, passed away on Feb. 7, 2021, after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He is survived by his wife Ann, his children and grandchildren. He was 75. His daughters Gracie and Mary have been members of the ...

Retired staff member Don Chenelle passed away Jan. 24. Chenelle worked at CWRU from 1973 to 2009, with 23 of those years as the faculty advisor to Phi Delta Theta (1981-2009). He was passionate about supporting students and went to great lengths to support them. He was known for his open-door polic...

Emeritus Professor Jack Koenig, a founding faculty member of Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering whose innovative use of modern spectroscopy revolutionized science's understanding of the characterization of polymer systems, passed away on Tuesday, J...

Members of the campus community are mourning the loss of undergraduate student Garrett Marchetti, following his sudden death last week. In an interview with KKTV during his senior year of high school, Marchetti explained his career goals simply: “Making a difference. That’s kind of where I see myse...

Charlotte Kramer, a 1941 alumna whose philanthropic passion helped advance Judaic studies and launch a campus law clinic, died last week at the age of 101. Kramer’s lifetime of support of the people and institutions of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio continued a family tradition of charity reaching ba...

School of Medicine alumnus leaves indelible legacy as national, international human-rights advocate Case Western Reserve University alumnus H. Jack Geiger, MD (MED '58, HON '00), who used his medical training and experience to take on poverty, racism and the threat of nuclear destruction, was consi...

Donald E. Schuele, the Albert A. Michelson Professor Emeritus of Physics, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 19, from issues related to COVID-19. Schuele received his doctorate degree in physics from the Case Institute of Technology in 1963 and soon after began teaching at his alma mater. In 1976, he to...

Case Western Reserve this week is mourning the passing of Elizabeth Meckes, a professor of mathematics renowned worldwide for her brilliance—and beloved on campus for her compassion. An undergraduate alumna who earned her doctorate at Stanford in 2006 and became a full professor here in 2018, Mecke...