After launching their first community outreach project in November, the Department of English is already midway through a second project. Under the guidance of Mary Assad, alumna of the department and now lecturer, they are currently supporting the Cleveland affiliate of Reach Out and Read to promote early childhood literacy by donating a wishlist of books written by a diverse group of authors.
Since joining the department in 2015, Calandruccio has contributed to the advancement of the understanding and approach to working with and rehabilitating people that are hard-of-hearing. With this professorship, she will be able to pilot innovative ideas that could lead to exciting advances in hearing science.
Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, PhD student in the Department of Biology and Holden Arboretum, is the co-founder of the International Congress of Armenian Mycologists (ICAM). In addition to her research, which focuses on forest ecology with a specific interest in mycology and mycorrhizal ecology, Bashian-Victoroff is a proud member of the Armenian diaspora, the motivating factor behind ICAM.
Joy K. Ward, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to serve as a member and chair of the Directorate Advisory Committee (DAC) for the Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate (EBSD) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Before returning to Case Western Reserve University for graduate school, Maura Plocek, who is working towards her masters in biology, taught local high school students at the Albert Einstein Academy (AEA). Now, she is taking what she’s learned in Developments in Human Evolutionary Biology to teach an integrated lesson to those very same high school students.
Marina Mandrikova, PhD student in the Department of Art and Art History, will travel to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece (ASCSA) this fall for the prestigious M. Alison Frantz Fellowship in Post-Classical Studies at the Gennadius Library.