After 17 years as art|sci magazine’s editor, Arthur Evenchik stepped down last summer to devote more time to communications projects for Dean Joy K. Ward and to his duties as coordinator of the Emerging Scholars Program. His successor, Sandy Livingston, has been editor of the university’s flagship publication, Think magazine, since 2014. Welcome, Sandy.
The Graduate Council of Arts & Sciences (GCAS) has awarded five graduate students from the college with the inaugural Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Endeavors (GSSCE) grant of $1,000 each.
Author and Case Western Reserve University religious studies professor Timothy Beal offers humanity a bit of advice amid what many see as an increasingly dire environmental outlook in his most recent book, When Time is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene.
To learn more about Juneteenth, The Daily sat down with Joy R. Bostic, associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the founding director of the minor in African and African American Studies. Bostic has served as interim vice president for CWRU’s Office of Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity, and she’s authored several book chapters and scholarly articles on race, gender and religion.
Stefani Garcia is a second-year Emerging Scholar Student and IMPACT Fellow majoring in communication sciences with a minor in Spanish, studying to be a bilingual speech pathologist.
Ramadan is the Muslim holy month, and even amid a pandemic, most of the world’s 1.9 billion Muslims will observe it in some form. Which means there’s a good chance a friend of yours, a classmate, a student, a faculty member or a coworker will be celebrating, fasting, and doing all sorts of other activities that are unique to the holy month. Ramez Islambouli, full-time lecturer of Arabic in the Department of Religious Studies, provides 5 things to know about Ramadan.