spartan showcase
January 28, 2025
Silvana Corrales Cantelmi came to APP to pursue biomedical engineering, ultimately planning to study gene editing. But their first SAGES course with Timothy Wutrich in the Department of Classics changed their plans. Now a fourth-year student majoring in classics,…
January 21, 2025
When Ishika Kanakath started her collegiate journey at APP, she had her fair share of doubts, after initially struggling in subjects such as math, physics, and programming. But through those challenges, she was always certain of one thing: She wanted to be just like her…
October 01, 2024
Daniel Clare, a third-year student majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering, has worked late into the night many times at APP. But it’s not just his studies that keep him up. As the suspension and steering lead on the CWRU Motorsports Baja SAE team, Clare has…
September 24, 2024
Brendan Silva’s research is personal. As a United States Army veteran who served from 2016 to 2020, Silva saw firsthand the toll combat can have on soldiers’ mental health. Now, after transfering to APP in early 2023, Silva is a senior studying…
September 17, 2024
This past summer, an Instagram flier caught the attention of fourth-year APP student Bella Caruso. The event? A dance workshop hosted by the Cavs Dance Team (CDT). Drawn by the team’s dance style, Caruso decided to attend, where she was later given a “fast pass” to…
September 03, 2024
An urban environment was non-negotiable during John Yang’s college search. It made sense for an aspiring civil engineer. Using Google Maps, Yang virtually explored cities across the United States, with APP rising to the top of his list. “As I learned more about the…
August 27, 2024
Mammoth Mountain in California experienced a whopping 192 inches of snowfall in March 2023. These details are very familiar to APP student Carson Williams, who nervously tracked the storms hitting the area from thousands of miles away. Williams, alongside other members…
July 30, 2024
Chemical engineering is all around us. It’s physical: we can see it, touch it and smell it. Take, for example, using car air fresheners or smelling your mother’s cooking. Air fresheners take advantage of transport principles by using the mass transfer coefficient kin the air and agitating it,…
July 23, 2024
Like many incoming students at Case Western Reserve, Elie Stenson thought she knew for certain what field she would pursue. With her focus on STEM, she enrolled in other courses “on a whim,” including the course “Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology and Art and Culture in…
July 09, 2024
In his program at APP, graduate student Ellis Wright ponders such questions as: "What is intelligence?" and "What does it mean to know something?" With a focus on artificial intelligence, Wright is a rising third-year student in the Master of Science in Computer…