College of Arts and Sciences

    Cassi Pittman, associate professor of sociology, has been awarded a Career Enhancement Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, which administers funds for the program provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.   Pittman is one of 20 junior faculty from around the country receiving six-month fellowships, which seek to...

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Three Case Western Reserve University junior faculty members have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grants, totaling nearly $1.7 million. The five-year grants support research into: Movements of nanoparticles through confined spaces, with applications to food source security and water purification; The formation and regulation of protein bonds between...

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  You probably have heard of Dark Matter, that unknown substance that makes up most of the universe? But what if Dark Matter isn’t real? Or what if it’s based on wrong physics? On March 13, 2017 McGaugh joined the Science Cafe Edition of The Sound of Ideas explaining why...

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Posted on March 10, 2017 The American Political Science Association (APSA) has awarded a Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs grant to Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science. The APSA’s Presidency Research Fund will support Beckwith’s research for her upcoming...

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  Odds are long for any application for a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship—only about 7 percent are awarded. Even longer are the odds that two professors from the same department each receive one of the prestigious grants in the same year. Unlikely as it may be, Erin Benay...

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  A Case Western Reserve team from international health and physics has won national recognition for a portable malaria detection device with the potential to transform diagnosis and treatment of the disease in developing countries. The team is one of four recipients of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent for...

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