Years ago, Karen Potter (GRS ’89), professor and chair of the Department of Dance, observed a colleague providing feedback to a student. The exchange was quiet...
Until he became an instructor himself, James “Jim” Spilsbury thought the quality of a college course was strictly up to the professor.
But once in that role...
At first blush, the word that Tim Goler uses to describe his mentor, Eva Kahana—as “family”—would seem to belie their dissimilar backgrounds.
Kahana is a Hu...
Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve, is among the leading global authorities in medical-image an...
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 exper...
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.
...
Elina Gertsman knows what it’s like to feel lost as a graduate student.
With a seemingly disinterested doctoral adviser and no mentoring program avai...
Brian Cobb recalled the transforming effects
of his first mentor.
“When I was a sophomore at the University of
Oklahoma (OU), I took a class in organic che...
Members of the Case Western Reserve University community can nominate outstanding faculty members for the prestigious John S. Diekhoff Awards for Graduate Teach...
School of Graduate Studies students can be part of Case Western Reserve University’s 40-year tradition of recognizing graduate faculty for their exemplary contr...