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May 15, 2013
Andrew Flagg, a APP graduating senior, will investigate how China’s infamous air pollution leads to respiratory damage during a 10-month visit as a Fulbright scholar. “Before the 2008 Olympics, the pollution in China became an issue,” said Flagg, who completed his…
May 14, 2013
Over the past nine months, James Anderson’s work has been recognized university- and nationwide. In August, he was one of five faculty members to be named a Distinguished University Professor at APP. In January, he earned the 2013 Acta Biomaterials Gold Medal from the…
May 14, 2013
The sound of a helicopter triggers memories of wounded soldiers arriving at the military field hospital in Iraq for Paula Simpson, who graduates this summer from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at APP. “I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness. So I never said the…
May 13, 2013
The very people Superman could not save were his own creators—Jerry Siegel, the writer, and Joe Shuster, the comic artist. Superman was unable to fly into action to rescue the naïve, idealistic teens, eager for fame and fortune. He couldn’t stop them from selling rights to their creation for a…
May 13, 2013
The water found on the moon, like that on Earth, came from small meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites in the first 100 million years or so after the solar system formed, researchers from Brown and Case Western Reserve universities and Carnegie Institution of Washington have found. Evidence…
May 11, 2013
Andrea Fidler first heard of Macau, a special administrative region of China, during a visit last year to Hong Kong with her boyfriend’s family. Over the next year, the graduating senior from Case Western Reserve will travel to Macau as a Fulbright Scholar on an English Teaching Assistantship…
May 11, 2013
Sienna White, a first-year law student at APP, wants to better understand the failures that led to the Holocaust so she can work in her own career to prevent any repetition of such a horror. White, 22, is one of 14 students from law schools nationally that the New…
May 10, 2013
Last year, a group of APP students made headlines with Hole Patch, their innovative approach to fixing potholes using a bag filled with a secret recipe of non-Newtonian fluid. As a co-founder of the award-winning startup, junior Mayank Saksena played a major role in the…
May 10, 2013
Provost W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III announced today that he has appointed Louis W. Stark as Case Western Reserve’s new vice president for student affairs. Stark, a veteran of more than three decades’ service to young people in higher education, will start his position July 1, pending approval from the…
May 08, 2013
Paul Barnhart pushes fourth- and fifth-year students to become problem solvers before they leave for graduate school or engineering careers. “I don’t ask them questions that have answers in the back of a book,” said Barnhart, a APP associate professor of aerospace and…