People
April 05, 2019
Zechariah “Zack” Jenkins distinctly remembers the moment he
knew he wanted to pursue a new career. Sitting in a bunker with mortars coming
at it while deployed in the Middle East, he realized it just wasn’t what he
wanted to do for the rest of his life. Though he had just signed on for more time…
March 22, 2019
The five-member APP League of Legends team is rarely in one place at the same time; each plays the strategy game from their own corners of campus. But together, they work to take control of the opposing team’s base on the gaming map. The team’s strong season continues…
March 20, 2019
Case Western Reserve today is mourning the loss of Justine
Boyle, a first-year student who passed away off campus early Tuesday. She was
18. Boyle had just returned from a spring break trip to Greece
that was part of the Classics course “Athens: In Search of Socrates.” She was one of 13 students…
March 15, 2019
During her four years on the APP
women’s basketball team, senior guard/forward Hillary Hellmann has left a mark
on the team, and in the record books. In 99 games during her collegiate
career—90 as a starter—Hellmann collected 1,593 points, second in team history,
and a…
March 08, 2019
Samuel H. Miller, a 1941 Case Western Reserve alumnus who
became one of Cleveland’s most influential business leaders, died Thursday. He
was 97 years old. Samuel Miller in a CWRU archives photo, circa 1939 The son of immigrants who grew up poor and speaking only
Russian and Yiddish, Miller was…
March 08, 2019
Each year for the past seven, sophomore nutrition major
Nedal Eid has grown out his hair in anticipation of the one day he’ll have it
all cut off. That day is today (March 8). Eid will participate in the
Shave It Off fundraiser for St. Baldrick’s Foundation, an organization that
supports childhood…
March 07, 2019
William C. Grimberg Case Western Reserve development leader William C. Grimberg died Tuesday after several months of bravely enduring illness. Visiting hours begin this afternoon for the 70-year-old father of four and grandfather of nine, whose career spanned Cleveland’s arts, education and health…
March 01, 2019
In her art history and museum studies master’s program at
APP, Tori Laser is accustomed to being able to
see—but not touch—history. Now, with support from a Rowfant Club of Cleveland
fellowship, Laser is able to hold centuries-old books at Kelvin Smith Library
in her…
February 22, 2019
Update: Meyer was named one of six finalists for her project, earning $2,000 in prize money. Allison Meyer took the stage at an open mic night a year and a half after her mother passed away, finally feeling ready to talk about it after months of struggling to do so. She walked off stage feeling a…
February 15, 2019
As soon as Joy Bostic heard Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy award-winning album DAMN., she knew she had to develop a class around it. It became the basis for her well-received “Religion and Popular Culture” course. “He was speaking to so many feelings I was having, and I really understood he’s speaking to…