Board Chair Announces Presidential Search Committee, Seeks Community Input
We invite everyone who has a stake in the future of our university to participate in the process. We will provide opportunities for our constituents to take part in forums or focus groups, both in the Cleveland area and in cities across the country where the Case Western Reserve community can offer its views on the qualifications the university should seek in our next president.

Case Western Reserve News
University Highlights & Items of Interest
Interim President Pledges Support to Case Community

Alumni brothers establish $1.5 million endowment for Case School of Engineering

$1.5 million HHMI grant to Case's biology department

November Research Greenhouse's construction completed

Alumni Watch
Alumni Accomplishments and Accolades
Case School of Engineering Dedicates the "Ollie Lobby"

Jonas Legum, ADL'70, named District Court judge

Dr. Laura Cox Dzurec, GRS'86, selected as the new dean at KSAU College of Nursing

Lucinda Lavelli, GRS'77 and MSASS'91, has been named the new dean of the University of Florida's College of Fine Arts

Maria J. Thompson, MSASS'05, appointed community reinvestment act officer for National City northcoast region
National City has announced the appointment of Maria J. Thompson to vice president and regional Community Reinvestment Act officer for the Northcoast region. Thompson brings with her 16 years of experience. In her position, Thompson is responsible for serving as a liaison with neighborhood organizations and agencies and maintaining close working relationships with both internal and external audiences to help National City meet the credit and reinvestment needs of local communities.

Anthony Mortimer, GRS'71, has been named Emeritus Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Mortimer retired from the Chair of English Literature which he held for rwenty-eight years. For much of that time he also taught a seminar at the University of Geneva. In 1994-95 he was Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.  Professor Mortimer has published widely on Shakespeare and on Renaissance poetry. His translations of Petrarch (begun as a graduate student at CWRU) have been published by Penguin Classics. His translations of Michelangelo's poetry are forthcoming in the same series. His wife Maya, a printmaker during her time in Cleveland, now holds a doctorate in Japanese Studies She publishes regularly and has taught at the universities of Fribourg and Zürich. They live in Geneva.


Breakthrough Research
Latest Faculty, Students & Staff Findings
Case Research Newsletter

"Race-based" medicine holds potential dangers for treatment, says Case Western Reserve University law professor

"Big humanities" project uncovers stories of illness

Will public art museums survive in today's world?

Alumni Association
of Case Western Reserve University
The Board of Directors of the Alumni Association will be increased from 15 to 18 members effective with the Board's Annual meeting in October. If you would like to be considered or know of an alumni who should be considered for election to the Board, contact Dan Clancy at dtc2@case.edu for additional information.

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Forest Hills school children get word smart
Learning a new word a day for Forest Hill Parkway K-8 Elementary School children in Cleveland just got as easy as turning a page in their new dictionaries—a gift from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Help continue the Mandel School's strong tradition of community service by making your gift today!

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