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$15 million gift deepens and expands existing partnerships through support of joint doctoral program, scholarship and the museum’s Ingalls Library ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the Cleveland Museum of Art are launching a landmark initiative that capitalizes on their longtime collaborations as ...

Joseph F. Fagan III, the Leffingwell Professor of Psychology and a leading researcher on infant intelligence, died Aug. 10. He was 71. Fagan joined the faculty of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in 1968, after earning his bachelor’s degree in English and psychology in 1963 from University of Hartfo...

John D. Protasiewicz, professor of chemistry, has been selected as a member of the 2013 class of American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellows. Protasiewicz’s areas of research interest include inorganic chemistry, materials and energy, organometallic chemistry, crystallography and more. His research gro...

Robert W. Brown, Distinguished University Professor and Institute Professor in the Department of Physics, was invited as an "eminent foreign scholar" to visit Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, for the month of July. During his stay, Brown presented 18 lectures and seminars on the subject of med...

David Ake, professor of musicology and an accomplished jazz scholar and musician, was appointed chair of the Department of Music at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. Since 2011, Ake has served as director of the School of the Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno. A member of the university’s facul...

Thrity Umrigar, associate professor of English, won a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian General Fiction category for her novel, The World We Found. Umrigar's novel was published in early 2012 and received high acclaim from various major news outlets. It tells the story of four students in India ...

Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández, an assistant professor of chemistry, won a National Science Foundation CAREER award to investigate how compounds found in human cells and medicines trigger DNA mutations that can damage cells and lead to skin cancer when exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet rays. Crespo, who...

Jenifer Neils knew she wanted to be an archaeologist in the third grade after she read about field archaeology pioneer Heinrich Schliemann—a man whose work advocated the idea that Homer’s Iliad reflected actual historical events. She hasn’t looked back since. After graduating from Bryn Mawr, Neils w...

About one of every two people diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also suffer symptoms of depression, according to new research by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Department of Psychological Sciences. The analysis also concludes that both genders diagnosed with PTSD equally suffer f...

Julia Brown-Allen, graduate coordinator in the biology department at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, is also Pastor Julia Brown-Allen, a founder of Cleveland’s Integrated Faith Assembly, who has reached out into the streets and shelters to help homeless and battered women and their children for mor...