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May 17, 2019
This Sunday, May 19, approximately 2,000 Case Western
Reserve University students will take part in commencement ceremonies, beginning
with the university-wide
convocation at 9:30 a.m. in the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic
Center and followed by diploma
ceremonies throughout the…
May 16, 2019
For most of her time as a mathematics undergraduate at Idaho State University, Jenny Hawkins was a shy student with an aversion to talking to her professors as strong as her determination to earn straight A's in their classes. Finally, in her junior year, a professor’s effort to ease Hawkins’…
May 16, 2019
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professor Harold Connamacher wins Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Harold Connamacher has been called a “master teacher” by one colleague, a professor with “lifelong impact” by another, and simply “the most approachable professor I…
May 16, 2019
The business world’s loss has been a significant gain for students at APP and the School of Medicine. Monica Gerrek, assistant professor of bioethics, had taken a philosophy course as an undergraduate but opted for the ostensibly safer choice of pursuing a business…
May 15, 2019
A Case
Western Reserve undergraduate taking a May term class in Israel died Wednesday
after being pulled from a natural spring in one of the country’s national parks. Lifeguards
on site immediately contacted emergency services and performed CPR, but were
unable to revive Xinling Yuan. He was 20…
May 15, 2019
When
Brian Gran began his career in academia nearly 20 years ago, “collaboration”
wasn’t as common a term or practice as it is today. But
his areas of expertise—law and society, human rights and health policy—couldn’t
fit into a single discipline if they were to be taught effectively, Gran…
May 15, 2019
Having never led a classroom before, Maggie Vinter moved to Japan in her early 20s to become a teacher of English as a second language to middle schoolers. “Seeing students go from not knowing to knowing—experiencing ideas as brand new—I found a love for teaching,” said Vinter, assistant…
May 03, 2019
When Lin Mei decided to go into medicine, he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Both had careers in the field: his mother in cardiology and his father in public health. But after medical school in China and a one-year internship that exposed him to various specialties in medicine, he felt…
April 26, 2019
During his four years at APP,
senior Raul Arturo Hernandez-Gonzalez has been highly involved, leaving his
mark in a variety of ways as a student leader. A major part of his undergraduate experience has been the Math Club, which he led as president for two years, working…
April 12, 2019
When Debby Jacobson had the opportunity to travel to the
Netherlands as a faculty leader for a study abroad course in 2005, she urged
her oldest son, Bernie—then a first-year student at Case Western Reserve
University—to participate. She wasn’t sure when an opportunity like that would
come up…