Thank you to all alumni, students, families, faculty and staff who attended some or all of Homecoming 2020. The university hosted 84 virtual alumni events with over 1,433 registered to attend. If you missed Pride of the College or the Student Experience Panel, you can watch the videos on the College’s youtube channel.
Fourth-year College of Arts and Sciences students Emma Risley and Aleska Sorgatz spent the summer working for the Sculpture Center on catalogs of virtual sculpture tours of Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus.
Eva Kahana, Distinguished University Professor and the Pierce T. and Elizabeth D. Robson Professor of the Humanities, recently announced the inaugural issue of the Journal of Elder Policy (JEP). The journal presents cutting-edge scholarship in the field of aging and the social sciences and offers guidelines for practice and policy benefiting and protecting older adults.
Case Western Reserve University will offer a new bachelor of science degree in neuroscience beginning fall semester 2020. Developed jointly by the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Neurosciences in the School of Medicine, the undergraduate program is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary.
“I begin this journey with great hope and a strong sense of purpose. We are living in a moment when the value of scientific inquiry, humanistic understanding and artistic creativity could not be clearer, and when the task of providing our students with an outstanding education could not be more vital.”—Joy K. Ward, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
“With the support of our alumni and friends, I am confident that we will sustain our traditions of excellence in research and education, help the world recover from this ordeal and move forward as a society that enables all individuals to develop their potential.”