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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March 21, 2019
This spring, the Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve
University will continue its 2018-2019 season with Meridian, a thesis concert featuring dance works by MFA candidate
Yizhen Hu, with additional works by guest artists and CWRU alumni Karlie Budge
and Yidi Lin. Performances are March 28,…
March 18, 2019
Rachel Chapman, associate professor
in anthropology at University of Washington, will be on campus Friday, March 22,
for a talk titled “Austerity, Precarious Use and the Elusive AIDS-Free
Generation in Mozambique.” The presentation will be held in
Mather Memorial Building, Room 201, from 5 to 6…
March 18, 2019
Further your education and career with an advanced degree
from APP’s College of Arts and Sciences. The college’s more than 50 graduate programs span the arts, humanities, mathematical and natural sciences, and social sciences—ranging from chemistry and physics to…
March 04, 2019
Through art, lectures, performances and exhibits, the fourth annual festival—presented by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and numerous cultural and educational partners—will consider the natural world, climate change and the future of our shared common home The 2019 Cleveland Humanities…
February 19, 2019
As part of panel of experts convened by the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA), APP professor Lee Hoffer voted last week to recommend a new nasal spray for treatment-resistant depression that some are touting as the most significant development in a generation for…
February 11, 2019
New research could explain color variance in other species and predict survival, reproduction in warming climate for other animals
New research from APP in how dragonflies may adapt their wing color to temperature differences might explain color variation in other…
January 03, 2019
With a $2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Cleveland Humanities Collaborative (CHC)—a pathway for humanities students to complete associate's degrees at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) and earn bachelor of arts degrees at APP—will expand to two…
January 02, 2019
President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III have announced that Florence Harkness Professor of Religion Timothy Beal has agreed to serve as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His appointment, which is contingent on approval from the Board of Trustees, began Tuesday, Jan.…
December 14, 2018
Representatives from several APP departments and schools attended the annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Indianapolis Nov. 14-17. The representatives were from the College of Arts and Sciences’ biology and chemistry departments, the School of…
November 01, 2018
While growing up in Alaska, Timothy Beal was steeped in a conservative evangelical community with a fondness and fear of Revelation, the last book of the Bible offering a potent brew of hellfire and redemption through a thick tangle of verses violent, bewildering and poetic. By adulthood,…