When historical musicology graduate student Rafique Illyas-Watson started learning how to write electronic music, he relied on his roots in hip hop. His techniques and an ear for music led producers from two local films to ask Watson to write and produce original music scores for their films, which were both featured at local film festivals.
Homecoming was the appropriate setting for the College of Arts and Sciences to celebrate 30 years since it was established. The six deans who have led the college since 1992 held a panel discussion and three current students share why they came to CWRU.
Fourth-year biology and history major Nihal Manjila has won the nationally-competitive Lynn W. Turner Prize for best paper by an undergraduate member of Phi Alpha Theta for his paper Substance of Joy: Serotonin Research at the Cleveland Clinic, 1948-1968.
When graduate student Rana Damra joined an interdisciplinary student research project she couldn’t have imagined her team would gain national recognition for their work. 
But they did.
Twelve teams of students and their faculty mentors from across the college participated in a research project poster contest during the inaugural Ignite alumni event during homecoming on Oct. 7. Four teams walked away with a $1,000 award.
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.