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May 15, 2019
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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May 15, 2019
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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May 03, 2019
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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April 26, 2019
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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April 12, 2019
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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April 05, 2019
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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March 22, 2019
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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March 20, 2019
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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March 15, 2019
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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March 08, 2019
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...