The first winners of the newly-created Mather Spotlight Series Prize for Women’s Scholarship were recently named. One winner from each of the schools/colleges at Case was selected. Kathleen Kash, associate professor of Physics, was selected from the College of Arts and Sciences. Winners were chose for their “outstanding research and leadership. The Awards are funded through the Mather Spotlight Series Endowment, established in 1989 by the Mather Centennial Celebration Committee of the Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association. The winners were honored on December 1 at an award ceremony and reception on campus.

Additional winners include:

Kathleen Farkas, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Marion Good, Ph.D., Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Yiping Han, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Dental Medicine
Anne Hiltner, Ph.D., Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case School of Engineering
Sharona Hoffman, J.D., LL.M., Professor of Law
Lisa M. Maillart, Associate Professor of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management
Patricia Marshall, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioethics, School of Medicine

For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/provost/centerforwomen/index.html.

I am writing these words on Thanksgiving weekend, during the first winter storm watch of the season. To some of you, the weather of your alma mater (the lake-effect snowfalls, the storms that sweep down from Canada) may be only a memory. Yet many others of you are still Ohioans or midwesterners, sharing the same climate, and wondering how the fall—not to mention the brilliant Indian summer— could have vanished so quickly.

This term has been an exciting and productive one for the College. An entire entering class—almost 1,150 students—enrolled in the SAGES program, and the new SAGES Café in Crawford Hall has opened for business. Nineteen new faculty members have joined Arts and Sciences, three of them senior scholars who have assumed duties as chairs of their departments. Students have already declared their interest in the new public health studies major and the emerging undergraduate and graduate programs in cognitive science. The search for the first Inamori Professor of Ethics and founding director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence is well under way. And this is only a sampling of the initiatives and achievements for which Fall 2005 will be remembered.

For updates about our current and future projects, including a collaboration between the cognitive science department and Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art, I invite you to explore this online newsletter. I also welcome this opportunity to thank you all, alumni and friends, for your generous support of our endeavors. Please accept my best wishes for the holidays and the new year.

Mark Turner
Institute Professor and Dean

Case alumnae Loretta Neal (B.A., history and environmental studies, ’04) and Rebecca “Kapika” Kaaikaula (B.A., political science, ’05) are the two barristas – also known as "sagistas – in the new SAGES Café that recently opened on the first floor of Crawford Hall. While coffee may top the menu at the Cafe, Neal and Kaaikaula also serve up information on SAGES – Case's major undergraduate initiative, the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship - the campus and the Cleveland area. For more information on the Café, including background on the concept and its construction, visit http://www.case.edu/news/2005/11-05/sages.htm.

Case art history alumnae Carolyn Kinder Carr, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution, will return to her alma mater for talk in early December.

Carr will give the free, public lecture “Framing Latin American Portraiture” on Thursday December 8, 2005 at 1 pm in the Dampeer Room of the Kelvin Smith Library.

This talk is the Inaugural Annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture in Art History.

Carr was one of four curators from three museum who organized the exhibition “Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits.” The exhibition, which features 115 paintings and sculptures from 76 lenders in 15 countries, and the accompanying catalogue is the first to focus exclusively on the traditions of portraiture in Latin America. Dr. Carr was joined in this endeavor by Drs. Miguel Bretos (National Portrait Gallery), Marion Oettinger (San Antonio Museum of Art) and Fatima Bercht (El Museo del Barrio). The exhibition is currently on view at the Smithsonian Institution's International Gallery until January 8, 2006.

For her December 8 talk, Dr. Carr will present an overview of the exhibition and talk about some of the challenges related to organizing this groundbreaking exhibition.

The Department of Art History and Art is pleased to welcome back to campus one of the most successful alumnae of the doctoral program in Art History and Museum Studies, in which the university partners with the Cleveland Museum of Art.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Art History and Art in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. For more information, visit http://www.case.edu/artsci/arth/events.html.

For the most recent listing of the news, announcements and events talking place in Arts and Sciences, visit http://www.case.edu/artsci/news/nov7email.html.

Joseph Uravitch (Adelbert '70), the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Protected Areas Center, was recently invited to become a member of the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). The WCPA's membership is comprised of approximately 1000 individuals from over 140 countries dedicated to promoting the establishment and effective management of a worldwide representative network of terrestrial and marine protected areas.

For more information on the Marine Protected Areas Center, visit www.mpa.gov.
For more information on the World Commission on Protected Areas, visit http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/.

For the most recent listing of the news, announcements and events talking place in Arts and Sciences, visit http://www.case.edu/artsci/news/oct24email.html.

Case alumni Dr. William F. Baker, chief executive officer of Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), licensee of Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 in New York, was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on October 8. Baker holds three degrees from Case: a Ph.D. in communications and organizational behavior (‘72) and an M.A. (’68) and B.A. (’66) in communications.

Baker is in distinguished company: also being inducted into the AAAS this year is Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist (who was inducted posthumously), journalist Tom Brokaw, architect and sculptor Maya Lin, actor and director Sidney Poitier, and many more.

Baker has been head of the head of EBC since 1987. His career spans four decades. Prior to assuming his position at Thirteen, he was president of Westinghouse Television and chairman of the cable and programming companies. During his 10 years at Westinghouse, five cable networks were launched, including Discovery Channel and the Disney Channel. He established the successful national program PM Magazine and introduced Oprah Winfrey as a talk show host.

Baker has been honoured by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with its national Trustee’s Emmy Award. He has won six Emmys as a television producer, two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards in Television and Radio Journalism – the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize – and the Gabriel Award, among many others. In 2004 he was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, and in 2005 elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Baker serves on the boards of the Public Broadcasting Service, Rodale Press, Freedom Communications, Inc., Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Consumers Union, and Leitch Technology Corporation. He is also on the Advisory Board of the National Park System.