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Tomorrow the campus community is invited to remember law school alumnus Phillip “Phil” Ranney, whose exceptional philanthropic service made him one of a select group to receive the President’s Award for Visionary Achievement (PAVA). “Phil’s sincerity and fundamental decency inspired me from…

Photo credit: Daniel Milner It’s showtime for Charley Knox. Associate astronomer in the Department of Astronomy and a fixture at ����APP for nearly 50 years, Knox (CIT ’74, astronomy; GRS ’78, physics) will spend this weekend inside the projection booth at Strosacker…

President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the appointment of an accomplished scientist and academic leader as the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Joy K. Ward, an associate dean for research and dean’s professor at the University of Kansas (KU), will…

Jonathan Arms had an insatiable thirst for knowledge. When he was 9, he asked his mom to purchase Minecraft—not so he could play it, like other kids his age, but so he could use it to teach himself programming. He taught himself Russian in high school—a language he continued studying as a Case…

When Laura Graham applied last year to serve as a student officer with the Yemen Accountability Project at ����APP School of Law, she wasn’t planning to lead the effort. But that’s exactly what James Johnson, director of the Henry T. King, Jr. War Crimes Research Office,…

For generations, Megan Holmes’ family has passed down the tradition of giving children pajamas from Mrs. Claus on Christmas Eve. But last year, when her 5-year-old son asked who “Jammie Claus” was, Holmes, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences,…

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Einav Rabinovitch-Fox research focuses on women and gender in the United States during the 20th century. She analyzes how visual and material culture has shaped and reflected class, gender, and racial identities—especially how women have used fashion as a…

Pamela B. Davis, dean of ����APP School of Medicine, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions…

As Case Western Reserve’s strategic plan takes shape, university leadership will have a unique perspective to draw upon: that of Tyson King-Meadows, associate dean for research and college affairs in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Maryland Baltimore County…

Talk to G. Dean Patterson Jr. even briefly, and you’ll start to see that a central theme throughout his career—and his life—is building meaningful relationships. After a decades-long career at ����APP, the associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students is…