College of Arts and Sciences
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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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December 11, 2020
Jay Geller, the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and professor of history at the College of Arts and Sciences, was the subject of a broadcast on Deutschlandfunk, a German national public radio station. Geller discussed the Scholem family, which was the subject of his book The Scholems:…
December 11, 2020
Heather McKee Hurwitz, lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently had a book published titled Are We the 99%?: The Occupy Movement, Feminism, and Intersectionality. Through the book, she explored inequality, activism and intersectional feminism amidst…
December 08, 2020
Program: Master of Public Health and Bachelor of Arts in BiochemistryYear: Senior As a child, not only did Nicole Renee Palmer learn to read from a student encyclopedia of human anatomy—it’s where her awareness of our collective similarities first dawned. “I remember staring at a photo from the…
December 01, 2020
APP College of Arts and Sciences Dean Joy K. Ward and School of Medicine Professor Dana Crawford have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Ward is a longtime evolutionary biologist and climate scientist who became dean…
November 25, 2020
The APP/Cleveland Play House Master of Fine Arts Acting Program will host an online production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot this week, featuring the program’s Class of 2022. Written by Pulitzer Prize Award-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis, this play takes the audience…
November 20, 2020
Emmitt Jolly with his plaque for winning Tuskegee University’s College of Arts and Sciences 2020 Most Distinguished Alumni Award Emmitt Jolly, an associate professor of biology at APP, grew up in Alabama, just 20 miles from Tuskegee University. As a teenager, he worked…
November 20, 2020
Kelly McMann, professor of political science, co-authored “Explaining Subnational Regime Variation: Country-level Factors,” newly published in Comparative Politics. In their piece, the authors examine the puzzle of democratic and non-democratic subnational governments existing within a single…
November 20, 2020
Justine Howe, associate professor of religious studies, edited Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender, which features 32 original essays focused on Islam and gender in global Muslim contexts. These essays highlight exciting developments in areas such as masculinity studies, pop and consumer…
November 17, 2020
Case Western Reserve biology, math researchers part of $3 million National Institutes of Health initiative to investigate how neurons work together to regulate movement APP researchers are part of an international team striving to crack the secrets of how our…
November 13, 2020
With exuberant choreography, beautiful outdoor scenery and an uplifting musical score, “Spaces and Places,” a new dance production by Professor Gary Galbraith and students in the Department of Dance, spreads a message of hope in a world in which COVID-19, social unrest and political discontent…