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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May 03, 2013
For Mary Grimm, writing is all about creativity. An associate professor of English, she teaches courses that demand imagination: fiction writing, urban fantasy, graphic novel, science fiction, and contemporary American literature. But her favorite to teach is the aptly named creative writing…
April 26, 2013
Chemistry graduate student Jim Heckler won the International Precious Metals Institute's Johnson Matthey Graduate Student Award for his study of precious metals. Heckler is a member of associate professor of chemistry Thomas Gray's lab, which focuses on the design of novel and useful complexes of…
April 25, 2013
The Spring Semester in Review Exhibition will take place April 29-May 3 at the Art Studio Gallery, featuring works of architecture, ceramics, painting, drawing, design, photography, enameling, jewelry and textiles. The exhibition will kick off April 29 with an opening reception from 5 to 7:30 p.m.…
April 25, 2013
The College of Arts and Sciences has narrowed its search to four candidates for the next director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities. Each candidate will travel to Case Western Reserve over the next two weeks and, during his or her stay, will make a presentation on goals for “Current and…
April 25, 2013
Doctoral student Elizabeth Hankins received the Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award. Hankins will travel to New Haven, Conn., in June to participate in the Symposium on Music in Schools that will take place at the Yale School of Music as part of the Music in Schools Initiative. With support…
April 24, 2013
In her pioneering studies, Cynthia Beall became used to the heady atmosphere high in the mountains of Tibet, Ethiopia and Peru. Now she’ll share rarified air with Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and more as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Beall, a Distinguished…
April 16, 2013
Mothers suffering from postpartum depression after a high-risk pregnancy would turn to online interventions if available anonymously and from professional healthcare providers, according to researchers from APP’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and College of Arts…
April 16, 2013
Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend three Spring 2013 Doctoral Showcase Lectures from the College of Arts and Sciences, April 16-19. The lectures will take place at 4:30 p.m., with refreshments beginning at 4 p.m., in Clark Hall 206. Doctoral Showcase Lectures feature the work of…
April 15, 2013
Celebrate National Poetry Month with the APP Department of Classics during “Vergil Week: MMXIII.” A different event celebrating the poet Vergil and his impact on modern literature, ethics and poetry will be featured daily from April 21 to 26. Events range from a…
April 02, 2013
APP historian Marixa Lasso received two prestigious fellowships—from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Humanities Center—to write a book about the forgotten history of the Panamanian towns that dotted the Canal Zone until a 1912 executive…