Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences

Students rehearsing Romeo and Juliet in a room
October 28, 2026
A new take on a timeless tragedy
CWRU Department of Theater reimagines Romeo and Juliet
Ric Kruszynski sits on a brick planter wall beside Michaela Jackson-Smith outside a modern glass-and-brick building.
October 26, 2026
The Mandel School offers training for social workers and providers
Professionals in the field gains skills for responding to addiction, trauma, and burnout to help clients and themselves
Three hand-drawn portraits on a white background: Thrity Umrigar, Aamaawia John Bickers, Caren Beilin, accented by colorful abstract shapes.
October 26, 2026
CWRU authors highlight writers who influence them
Three recently published faculty discuss their lessons learned
The professor stands in her office, smiling at the camera while holding two books. A bookshelf filled with books is to her left, while artwork and a desk are visible in the background.
October 21, 2026
We may never be able to eliminate biases in social science data, but CWRU's Francisca García-Cobián Richter is getting us closer by centering community knowledge
Francisca García-Cobián Richter, PhDResearch Associate Professor at Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social SciencesCo-Director, Center on Poverty and Community DevelopmentArea of Focus: public interest technology, participatory data science, algorithmic biasAny data generated in…
Illustration of a neurorobotics lab in the Roger E. Susi Interdisciplinary Research Building, with a large water tank, robotic arms, small flying winged robots, and researchers working at computers. A giant neuron stretches across the back wall and in the center, two raised blocks of soil show a butterfly, crab, sea slug, turtle, snail, beetle, and worm.
October 16, 2026
Nature's blueprints: Inside the Susi Building’s NeuroRobotics research cluster at Case Western Reserve
How a team of Case Western Reserve researchers is drawing on millions of years of evolution to solve urgent problems with robotics
Woman holding purple ribbon
October 15, 2026
Marking Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Two CWRU experts weigh in on how to help victims of intimate partner violence
Six experts in the field of music, cognitive sciences, and audio engineering pose in a lab space while holding speakers and other audio equipment, including one person wearing an EEG cap with sensors.
October 14, 2026
Music of the brain: Musicians, scientists, engineers, and students are joining forces to make musical compositions from brainwaves
Our brain helps us to listen all the time, but what if we try to listen to it?
View of the Getty Research Institute
October 13, 2026
From greenhouses to graduate school
Meet a doctoral candidate making her mark in Byzantine-era textile research at CWRU
The professor stands in front of shelves filled with books, holding a copy of his book: The Empire of Depression.
October 07, 2026
Why we should care about history: a medical historian’s perspective
Are old solutions ‘old’ because they became useless, and is the past irrelevant because it will never happen again?
Elizabeth A. Davis with the New York City skyline in the background
October 07, 2026
CWRU helps pave the road to success from small-town Texas to the bright lights of New York City
Raised in a tiny Texas Panhandle town of just 363 people, Elizabeth A. Davis (GRS ’06, theatre) grew up surrounded by family, farmland and music. “We are agrarian to the core, and I got this unique blend of plowing and singing,” she said, describing a childhood shaped equally by hard work and…