Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Maddalena Rumor received a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to work on a manuscript for a book, currently titled Dreckapotheke in Ancient Mesopotamia and the Graeco-Roman World. Rumor is the only scholar associated with Case Western Reserve University to receive an ACLS award within the past five years.
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Shanna Beth McGee (GRS, MNO ’18), CWRU professor of theater and co-founder of the immersive theater company Shadow of the Run, wanted to find a way to help artists in the community financially impacted by COVID-19. She and a team that includes four more alumni presented 48 Zoom performances over 12 days, raising $4,000.
Rekha Srinivasan, the James Stephen Swinehart, PhD Professorial Teaching Fellow in Chemistry and senior instructor in the Department of Chemistry, wanted to engage her students with something out of the ordinary, so she sent them recipes and invited them to a cooking class via Zoom.
Arthur Evenchik, assistant to the dean for special projects and coordinator of the Emerging Scholars Program, received the Dr. Ralph Horwitz Award from the Cleveland School of Science and Medicine (CSSM).
Student and faculty participation in the December 2019 Intersections Symposium was tremendous. With 308 students presenting 155 posters, it marked the highest student participation yet for the fall semester symposium, which was held at Tinkham Veale University Center. Students from the departments of Biology, Anthropology, Cognitive Science and Physics were recognized for their achievements.
Yohannes Haile-Selassie is one of “10 People Who Mattered in Science” in 2019, according to the scientific publication Nature. Haile-Selassie is curator and head of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve.