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Inside an audiology lab, where Lauren Calandruccio investigates multilingual hearing behavior in noisy environments
Editor’s note: Jasmine Vo, the author of this story, is a student employee in the University Marketing and Communications department. She is a fourth-year student majoring in communication sciences. While working as a clinical audiologist, Lauren Calandruccio realized how many unknowns remain in…
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January 28, 2021
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Gheorghe D. Mateescu passed away Friday, Jan. 22, at the age of 92. Mateescu was born in Pitesti, Romania, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1967 to receive his PhD from APP under Professor G. Olah. He spent the following 53 years in the…
January 22, 2021
Jonathan Entin, the David L. Brennan Professor Emeritus of Law and adjunct professor of political science, weighed in on what led to pollsters being off in predictions for the 2020 election. Entin’s piece, published on cleveland.com and titled “Shakespeare and those inaccurate polls,” called upon…
January 22, 2021
As chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures since August 2020, Damaris Punales-Alpizar has been laser-focused on raising the profile of the department, which she considers to be the multicultural epicenter of APP. “We cover languages and cultures from…
January 22, 2021
Lihong Shi, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote an op-ed published by Sixth Tone, a digital English publication in China. Her piece described the grief faced by Chinese parents who have lost their only child. Five years after China ended…
January 12, 2021
Year: SeniorsMajors: Neuroscience and healthcare management (Chitturu); biomedical engineering (Schwartzman)Minors: Chemistry and economics (Chitturu); sociology (Schwartzman) As individuals in Ohio began receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, two Case Western Reserve students penned an op-ed for…
January 04, 2021
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant to APP to examine instances of governments suspending human rights in the name of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will aim to raise awareness of human rights violations…
December 23, 2020
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…
December 18, 2020
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,…
December 17, 2020
With a $2,028,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, APP will establish a training program for humanities faculty and graduate students that promotes equity and diversity in academic leadership. The four-year award will fund a new Humanities in Leadership…
December 15, 2020
Years: Fourth-yearsMajors: Biology and sociology (Kiana Loo) and political science and sociology (Vanessa Pilatova) For fourth-year students Kiana Loo and Vanessa Pilatova, volunteer work and community involvement have been key themes during their time at APP. In fact,…