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Collaboration is key to sociology professor, Diekhoff winner Brian Gran's approach with students
When Brian Gran began his career in academia nearly 20 years ago, “collaboration” wasn’t as common a term or practice as it is today. But his areas of expertise—law and society, human rights and health policy—couldn’t fit into a single discipline if they were to be taught effectively, Gran said. In...
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Bringing Shakespeare alive through teaching and technology, Maggie Vinter wins Diekhoff Award
Having never led a classroom before, Maggie Vinter moved to Japan in her early 20s to become a teacher of English as a second language to middle schoolers. “Seeing students go from not knowing to knowing—experiencing ideas as brand new—I found a love for teaching,” said Vinter, assistant professor...
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5 questions with… researcher, neurosciences chair Lin Mei
When Lin Mei decided to go into medicine, he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Both had careers in the field: his mother in cardiology and his father in public health. But after medical school in China and a one-year internship that exposed him to various specialties in medicine, he felt he...
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5 questions with… senior, student leader Raul Arturo Hernandez-Gonzalez
During his four years at ӰƵ, senior Raul Arturo Hernandez-Gonzalez has been highly involved, leaving his mark in a variety of ways as a student leader. A major part of his undergraduate experience has been the Math Club, which he led as president for two years, working ...
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5 questions with… retiring Mandel School faculty member, study abroad leader Debby Jacobson
When Debby Jacobson had the opportunity to travel to the Netherlands as a faculty leader for a study abroad course in 2005, she urged her oldest son, Bernie—then a first-year student at ӰƵ University—to participate. She wasn’t sure when an opportunity like that would come up again....
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5 questions with… Zechariah “Zack” Jenkins, a student in the PRIME program
Zechariah “Zack” Jenkins distinctly remembers the moment he knew he wanted to pursue a new career. Sitting in a bunker with mortars coming at it while deployed in the Middle East, he realized it just wasn’t what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Though he had just signed on for more time in...
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5 questions with… sophomore, League of Legends team captain Joseph “Josh” Laurienzo
The five-member ӰƵ League of Legends team is rarely in one place at the same time; each plays the strategy game from their own corners of campus. But together, they work to take control of the opposing team’s base on the gaming map. The team’s strong season continues t...
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First-year student Justine Boyle passes away
ӰƵ today is mourning the loss of Justine Boyle, a first-year student who passed away off campus early Tuesday. She was 18. Boyle had just returned from a spring break trip to Greece that was part of the Classics course “Athens: In Search of Socrates.” She was one of 13 students w...
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5 questions with… senior basketball player, Jostens Trophy nominee Hillary Hellmann
During her four years on the ӰƵ women’s basketball team, senior guard/forward Hillary Hellmann has left a mark on the team, and in the record books. In 99 games during her collegiate career—90 as a starter—Hellmann collected 1,593 points, second in team history, and a re...
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Samuel H. Miller, alumnus and long-time business and philanthropy leader, dies at 97
Samuel H. Miller, a 1941 ӰƵ alumnus who became one of Cleveland’s most influential business leaders, died Thursday. He was 97 years old. Samuel Miller in a CWRU archives photo, circa 1939 The son of immigrants who grew up poor and speaking only Russian and Yiddish, Miller was abl...