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History’s Renee Sentilles selected for Mather Center’s Higher Education Resource Services Leadership Institute registration award
Renee Sentilles, the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, will attend the Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Leadership Institute through the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women’s registration award. Sentilles specializes in American women’s…
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Bharat Ranganathan selected for Paul Ramsey Fellowship
For Bharat Ranganathan, academia has been a long-standing passion. After graduating from APP, Harvard University and Indiana University with a bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD, respectively, he pursued a career in ethics, most recently returning to CWRU as the Elmer G.…
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Research team writes perspective paper published in Journal of Applied Physics
An united “perspective paper” by a team of APP researchers was recently published and chosen as an editor’s pick by the Journal of Applied Physics. Published in June and titled “Ultrathin 2D-oxides: A perspective on fabrication, structure, defect, transport, electron,…
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Art history’s Henry Adams pens biography on midcentury American artist Adolf Dehn
Adolf Dehn belongs to a group of distinguished midcentury American artists who were eclipsed by abstract expressionism and the following movements in American art. His lithographs of the “roaring twenties” introduced a note of social satire into American printmaking. He was one of the most gifted…
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Art history’s Elina Gertsman explores empty space in Gothic art in new book
Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II and professor of art history, penned a new book, recently published by Penn State University Press. The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books is the result of Gertsman’s the American Council of Learned Societies…
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CWRU scientist’s team receives $1.2 million W.M. Keck Foundation research grant to determine how ecological factors affect evolution
Professor Beverly Saylor leads interdisciplinary global group applying state-of-the art technology to answer ancient questions A Case Western Reserve researcher is leading an interdisciplinary global team that will use state-of-the-art technology to tackle an ancient question: How did ecological…
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Spartan Showcase: Ingrid Gillies
Majors: Economics and political scienceYear: Class of 2023 When she was unsure what career path she wanted to pursue as a first-year student at Case Western Reserve, Ingrid Gillies received valuable advice from a mentor: get experience in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Now a rising…
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Professor Brian Gran gives presentation to Oxford University's Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
In May, Brian Gran, professor of sociology and law, was invited by the Oxford Children's Rights Network to give a presentation to Oxford University's Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Gran's presentation concentrated on his book, The Sociology of Children's Rights, which Polity Press recently…
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Case Western Reserve biologist leads discovery of new invasive fish
Second ‘Cichlid’ fish species—native to Mexico—now threatening waters of southern United States, invading waterways in Louisiana A APP scientist has played the lead role in identifying an invasive species related to one already threatening other fish in the waters of…
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English department's Michael W. Clune writes about moral education
Michael W. Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities in the Department of English, wrote an opinion piece titled “Are Humanities Professors Moral Experts?” that was published by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Clune explored how humanities professors are split between…