College of Arts and Sciences
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Canonizing a millennial saint: CWRU experts weigh in on what Carlo Acutis means for today’s church
Yesterday (Sept. 7) at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV officially canonized Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old computer enthusiast from Italy who died in 2006 and has since become known as the “patron saint of the internet.” To learn more about the significance of Acutis’s canonization, we spoke with Brian J…
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May 20, 2013
An accomplished organist, Alanna Ropchock’s performances for religious services and festivals fueled a curiosity for liturgical music history. From that interest, Josquin des Prez’s Missa Pange lingua, an important Renaissance mass for the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi, became the top...
May 08, 2013
Anthropology’s Eileen Anderson-Fye started the academic year by giving the first-ever faculty address to the incoming undergraduate class.
She finished it by becoming the only person in university history to win its top award for undergraduate teaching 12 months after claiming the campus prize for ...
May 03, 2013
For Mary Grimm, writing is all about creativity. An associate professor of English, she teaches courses that demand imagination: fiction writing, urban fantasy, graphic novel, science fiction, and contemporary American literature. But her favorite to teach is the aptly named creative writing course,...
April 26, 2013
Chemistry graduate student Jim Heckler won the International Precious Metals Institute's Johnson Matthey Graduate Student Award for his study of precious metals. Heckler is a member of associate professor of chemistry Thomas Gray's lab, which focuses on the design of novel and useful complexes of go...
April 25, 2013
The Spring Semester in Review Exhibition will take place April 29-May 3 at the Art Studio Gallery, featuring works of architecture, ceramics, painting, drawing, design, photography, enameling, jewelry and textiles.
The exhibition will kick off April 29 with an opening reception from 5 to 7:30 p.m. ...
April 25, 2013
The College of Arts and Sciences has narrowed its search to four candidates for the next director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities. Each candidate will travel to ӰƵ over the next two weeks and, during his or her stay, will make a presentation on goals for “Current and Fu...
April 25, 2013
Doctoral student Elizabeth Hankins received the Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award. Hankins will travel to New Haven, Conn., in June to participate in the Symposium on Music in Schools that will take place at the Yale School of Music as part of the Music in Schools Initiative.
With support fro...
April 24, 2013
In her pioneering studies, Cynthia Beall became used to the heady atmosphere high in the mountains of Tibet, Ethiopia and Peru. Now she’ll share rarified air with Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and more as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Beall, a Distinguished Un...
April 16, 2013
Mothers suffering from postpartum depression after a high-risk pregnancy would turn to online interventions if available anonymously and from professional healthcare providers, according to researchers from ӰƵ’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and College of Arts ...
April 16, 2013
Students, faculty and staff are invited to attend three Spring 2013 Doctoral Showcase Lectures from the College of Arts and Sciences, April 16-19. The lectures will take place at 4:30 p.m., with refreshments beginning at 4 p.m., in Clark Hall 206. Doctoral Showcase Lectures feature the work of fello...