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Staff member, alumnus Amad Awadallah passes away
The APP community is mourning the loss of staff member Amad Awadallah, who died July 22. He was 50. Awadallah got his start at the university as an undergraduate student in the fall of 1991. During that time, he worked as a work study student in the Caplan Lab, housed…
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Faculty member Clark Distelhorst passes away
Clark Distelhorst, a long-standing faculty member of the APP School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology, the Department of Medicine at University Hospitals and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, passed away July 3. His wife, Lynne, shared that Distelhorst was…
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Staff member James Bossard passes away
The APP community is mourning the loss of groundskeeper James Bossard, who died June 2. He was 64. When Bossard began working at the university more than 30 years ago, it marked a new chapter in an extensive family legacy. Bossard’s great grandfather, Emil, was the…
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Maltz Performing Arts Center staff member Brian Bowers passes away
In September, Brian Bowers took on a role that had long been in flux: that of the box office manager at APP’s Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center. An inherently busy position made even more challenging by a transition to a new ticketing system, the opportunity…
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Public safety Officer Theodore Jones passes away
As a second-shift security officer in the Wolstein Research Building, Officer Theodore Jones was a friendly face to many at APP. Now, members of the campus community are remembering Jones, who died April 12 after a battle with cancer. He was 72. “Officer Jones was a…
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Emeritus Professor John Angus passes away
The APP community is mourning the loss of emeritus chemical engineering faculty member John Angus, who died late last month. He was 88. Angus, who served the university for more than 40 years, was one of four faculty members hired in 1963 to restart the Department of…
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CWRU community mourns faculty member Christine Cano
Alan Rocke’s 22-year friendship with Christine Cano began with a single question. Then a first-year faculty member at Case Western Reserve, Cano had approached the endowed professor of history after a research presentation. Her “penetrating” query was posed “with such intellectual intensity,”…
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School of Medicine staff member Denise Fuzzell passes away
The APP community is mourning the loss of staff member Denise Fuzzell, who died Oct. 28 following a battle with gallbladder cancer. She was 69. Since 2013, Fuzzell worked as a coordinator in the School of Medicine’s Department of Population and Quantitative Health…
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Recent School of Dental Medicine staff member Gladys Ina passes away
It is with deep sadness that APP School of Dental Medicine announces the passing of Gladys Ina on Friday, Aug. 19. Ina was a dedicated staff member for the School of Dental Medicine from 2013 to 2022, working closely with Professor Emeritus Ronald Occhionero. Always…
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‘Brilliant’ pharmacology researcher, Cancer Center member Chris Dealwis passes away
“Brilliant,” “dedicated” and “wonderful” are just a few of the words being used to describe revered APP School of Medicine faculty member Chris G. Dealwis, who passed away unexpectedly last weekend while visiting family in England. As a scientist, Dealwis’…