obituary
June 24, 2016
Visiting hours will be held this evening for Diego Barrera Bayona, an undergraduate with an extraordinary ability to bring a smile to anyone one he met. Diego died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 20 years old. Diego was a biology major determined to be a doctor, who repeatedly earned high…
April 11, 2016
Senior biomedical engineering major Henry Wu died unexpectedly this weekend. He was 22. Wu, from the Woodhaven neighborhood of Queens, New York, arrived at Case Western Reserve in 2012 after graduating from Stuyvesant High School, an elite specialized secondary school in New York City. While at…
March 21, 2016
The year after Harvey Buchanan retired from Case Western Reserve in 1988, the university and Cleveland Museum of Art began holding an annual lecture in his name, to recognize the indelible impact he had on the arts in the area. This year, the lecture will have a layer of sorrow, as Buchanan,…
March 07, 2016
Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 19, for Patricia Baldwin Kilpatrick, a beloved member of the Case Western Reserve community for more than 50 years and the university’s first female vice president. Pat, as she was known, died peacefully Thursday, March 3, with her daughter Kate by her…
January 21, 2016
School of Medicine Emeritus Professor Jerome Kowal passes away; memorial services to be held Feb. 27
Jerome Kowal, the Amasa B. Ford Professor Emeritus of Geriatric Medicine, passed away Dec. 23. He was 84. After completing his residency at Mount Sinai Hospital, Kowal, a native of New York City, came to Cleveland in 1970 as an associate professor of medicine and pharmacology. From there, he went…
January 06, 2016
No matter how bad his illness became, Donald Harris never gave up on his dream: to become a doctor who helped patients battling, just as he was. When the Case Western Reserve senior scored in the 97th percentile on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) last fall, his dream felt even closer to…
January 05, 2016
A APP alumnus and Nobel Prize winner known as a pioneer in education and research passed away late last month. Alfred G. Gilman, MD, PhD (MED ’69; GRS ’69, pharmacology), a Nobel Laureate in physiology and medicine, died in Dallas at the age of 74. Gilman earned the…
December 09, 2015
Lajos Takács, professor emeritus of statistics and probability at APP, died Dec. 4. He was 91. A private funeral service will be held, with interment at Lake View Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the Schulte & Mahon-Murphy Funeral Home (5252 Mayfield…
December 02, 2015
APP is mourning the sudden death last week of fourth-year medical student Hilary M. Rosenheim, a Wisconsin native who came to Cleveland to pursue her dream of becoming an emergency room physician or family medicine practitioner. She was 26. Rosenheim, who married…
November 30, 2015
A memorial service will be held Friday for alumnus and trustee Joseph B. “J.B.” Richey II, developer of the first commercially available full-body CAT scan and one of the first major donors to the university’s innovation hub, the Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[ box ]. Richey, whose…