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Antonio Candau, former chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, died Tuesday, Sept. 17. He was 51. Candau joined the Case Western Reserve faculty as an associate professor in 2001. A native of Madrid, he specialized in contemporary Spanish literature and culture, earning deep…

����APP’s Weatherhead School of Management, already recognized for introducing original design concepts to business management, has formed a new Department of Design & Innovation that embraces the research university’s focus on entrepreneurism, technology development and…

“Rarely Seen Gems of Japanese Cinema,” a film festival of four major Japanese classics with very limited showings in the United States, will be presented this fall at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, 11141 East Blvd., in University Circle. The Japan Foundation in New York City is…

Emily Bazelon, author of The New York Times best-seller Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy, will share the social causes, ramifications and legal implications of bullying when she leads the 2013-14 Schubert Center Conversation…

����APP researchers have identified a genetic factor that blocks the blood vessel inflammation that can lead to heart attacks, strokes and other potentially life-threatening events. The breakthrough involving Kruppel-like factor (KLF) 15 is the latest in a string of…

Eric Rains was 14 when he began classes in 1987. He left ����APP with bachelor’s degrees in computer science and physics and a master’s degree in mathematics—at age 17. He earned a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from Cambridge University the next year and, in…

Assistant professors of physics Claudia de Rham and Andrew J. Tolley received awards to delve deep into black holes, dark energy and other phenomena tied to crucial events in the evolution of the universe. Tolley is one of a handful of physicists nationwide who won a $750,000 U.S. Department of…

Commitment raises total for sustainable value to $16 million Chuck Fowler’s leadership of Fairmount Minerals proves conclusively that companies really can do good and do well. But persuading others to embrace sustainable value involves more than setting an impressive standard—research, education…

An international group of experts on research into human origins and evolution will visit Cleveland to participate in a two-day symposium and panel discussion hosted by ����APP, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Institute for the Science of Origins and the Leakey…

The idea that men and women are fundamentally different from each other is widely accepted. And throughout the world, this has created distinct ideas about which social and physical characteristics are necessary in each gender to maintain healthy human development. However, social revolutions…