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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April 15, 2013
Celebrate National Poetry Month with the ӰƵ Department of Classics during “Vergil Week: MMXIII.”
A different event celebrating the poet Vergil and his impact on modern literature, ethics and poetry will be featured daily from April 21 to 26. Events range from a Vergilia...
April 02, 2013
ӰƵ historian Marixa Lasso received two prestigious fellowships—from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Humanities Center—to write a book about the forgotten history of the Panamanian towns that dotted the Canal Zone until a 1912 executive o...
March 12, 2013
The ӰƵ Department of Dance will present Converging Pathways March 21, 22 and 23 at 8 p.m., with a 2:30 p.m. matinee March 24. All shows will be held at the Mather Dance Center.
The dance thesis concert includes works by Master of Fine Arts candidates Carissa Bellando an...
March 04, 2013
Watching a loved one die tests some family members’ relationships with God. This spiritual anger and resentment increases with the level of pain and suffering their family member endures, according to researchers at ӰƵ.
Psychologist Julie Exline and palliative care adva...
February 22, 2013
Update Monday, Feb. 25: The panel now can be viewed online.
An idea emerging from research at ӰƵ will be pulled from the ivory tower and placed squarely among executives from IDEO, Google and Udacity at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco today.
Anthony Jack, as...
February 22, 2013
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report
Professor Lee Thompson takes an unusual approach to teaching her course “Life of the Mind,” a First Seminar in SAGES (the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship) at ӰƵ.
Thompson, chair of the Depart...
February 08, 2013
He started off as a young man from Akron with a love for music; years later, he worked the red carpet at the Grammys, rubbing elbows with some of the music industry’s elite.
No, we’re not talking about a member of The Black Keys. We’re talking about Brian Sokol, who now serves as the executive dire...
January 08, 2013
A quest to link India to European Renaissance art yielded some surprising findings for ӰƵ art historian Erin Benay.
Benay discovered several undocumented and unpublished works, which she revealed recently in a presentation, "Repurposed Renaissance: Adaptation in Christi...
January 03, 2013
Longtime university mathematics professor Peter Kotelenez, an expert in stochastic differential equations, died Wednesday after a long battle with cancer. He was 69.
A member of the ӰƵ faculty since 1990, Kotelenez published widely on stochastic differential equations, Brownian mo...