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April 22, 2008
Sudeck's legacy lives on in naming of outdoor track
James Wyant(CIT '65) has named the track at Case Western Reserve University's Case Field in memory legendary coach, mentor and friend Bill Sudeck.
April 14, 2008
Will commitment to endow chemistry professorship at Case Western Reserve University
Gilles Klopman, the Charles F. Mabery Professor Emeritus of Research in Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University and president and CEO of Beachwood, Ohio-based MultiCASE, Inc., has made seven-figure will commitment to the chemistry department in Case Western Reserve's College of Arts and Sciences.
April 11, 2008
Estate Gift Will Be Part of Class of '58 Fiftieth Reunion Class Gift
Sanford R. Weiss, M.D. (ADL ’55, MED ’58) has given a $1.9 million charitable remainder annuity trust to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to support scholarships and commemorate his 50th reunion.
March 17, 2008
Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association Announces Challenge Campaign Leadership
President Barbara Snyder helps celebrate the announcement of the volunteer leadership of the $1 million challenge campaign initiated by the Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association last May.
March 11, 2008
Local leader supports new business planning competition at Case's Weatherhead School of Management to help spur economic growth in northeast Ohio
Local business leader B. Charles Ames has made a $1 million commitment to implement the B. Charles Ames Business Plan Competition and the B. Charles Ames Distinguished Speaker Series in Corporate Governance and Creating Shareholder Value.
First professorship in energy innovation at Case Western Reserve University endowed by Maltz Family Foundation
The Maltz Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland provides $2 million grant for professorship; builds on startup funds from Cleveland Foundation
December 04, 2007
Late Western Reserve University alumna bequeaths $5.7 million to Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
The estate of Gertrude Donnelly Hess, one of two women to graduate from the Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1934, has bequeathed approximately $5.7 million to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, the largest bequest by a single donor in the School of Medicine's history.
November 23, 2007
Dental School Alumnus Makes Will Commitment for Scholarships
Jim Goodwill ’71, an oral surgeon at Christiana Care Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware, has made a generous gift to the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine in the form of a will commitment.
November 05, 2007
Class of 1942 alumna gives $1 million to School of Medicine to honor Rocco L. Motto, M.D.
Vee Motto has donated $1 million to the School of Medicine to help establish the Rocco L. Motto, M.D. Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The gift was announced during a private reception over Alumni Weekend.
September 24, 2007
$1.6 million gift fuels groundbreaking research in arthritis, transforms undergraduate labs
Inspired by Case Western Reserve University biology professor Arnold Caplan, Case Western Reserve alumnus L. David Baldwin (B.S. '49, physics) has donated $1.6 million to the College of Arts and Sciences.
September 23, 2007
Case Western Reserve University Astronomy Alumnus Funds Seyfert Prize Fellowship
Case Western Reserve University Astronomy alumnus Dr. Anthony J. Wasilewski has established the Department of Astronomy's new Carl K. Seyfert Prize Fellowship for Undergraduate Research.
July 24, 2007
National History Day features yearlong competition for middle and high school students
The prestigious award, which provides a renewable full tuition scholarship to Case Western Reserve University, honors the memory and legacy of Van Tassel, a nationally recognized historian and professor of history. He established National History Day in 1974 at Case with his history department colleagues.
July 20, 2007
A Team Effort: University Farm Endowment is Seeded
Team of faculty, administrators, and alumni have worked to establish a new endowment fund to keep the 389-acre Squire Valleevue and Valley Ridge Farms thriving for research, education and recreational uses for many years to come.
July 03, 2007
Case/Cleveland Play House Acting Program to use Cleveland Foundation as home for new endowment fund
Case Western Reserve and the Cleveland Play House have launched a $10-million fundraising campaign to sustain the Case/Cleveland Play House M.F.A. Acting Program.
June 07, 2007
Case Western Reserve University to establish its first endowed chair named for an African American
May L. Wykle, dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, honored with chair, one of the first named for an African American woman in nursing at major research university.
May 15, 2007
Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Board Celebrates Women with $1 Million Challenge Grant
The Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Board announced that the alumnae board is offering a $1 million challenge grant in support of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women.
April 25, 2007
Lewandowski's legacy lives on in new Case ballpark
Nobby's Ballpark allows 1964 MBA alumnus to cross another item off lifelong list of goals.
April 23, 2007
Setting the Stage for the Acting Program's Future
Walter (ADL '55) and Jean (FSM '55, LAW '81) Kalberer have provided a leadership gift of $1 million to support the MFA acting program at Case Western Reserve University's College of Arts and Sciences.
February 06, 2007
Late couple's love story leads to $2.3 million donation for endowed chair at Case's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Husband honors late wife's nursing education and career with creation of the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Chair to support excellence in nursing education
January 17, 2007
Case Western Reserve University trustees contribute nearly $20 million to university
Members of the governing body of Case Western Reserve University contribute more than time, counsel, and expertise. They also contribute money to support the goals they endorse and value.
December 18, 2006
Emerita professor's $1.5 million gift strengthens parent-child studies for social workers
Grace F. Brody, associate professor emerita from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (MSASS), has generously given $1.5 million to MSASS to endow and create the new Grace F. Brody Professor of Parent-Child Studies.
December 04, 2006
University trustee establishes $500K endowment at Case school of engineering
A gift from Case Western Reserve University trustee and Cleveland business leader, Joseph P. Keithley, and his wife, Nancy, will help the Case School of Engineering recruit the best and brightest electrical engineering and computer science students from around the world and bring them to Northeast Ohio.
October 06, 2006
Case's Sears Undergraduate Design Laboratory Unveiled to Public November 1
The Case School of Engineering, Northeast Ohio Electronics Cluster and Larry Sears will publicly showcase the new Sears Undergraduate Design Laboratory to a public gathering of Northeast Ohio Electronics industry and academic professionals on November 1, from 6:00-8:30 pm at the Glennan Building on the Case campus.
June 01, 2006
November Research Greenhouse's construction completed
The Debra Ann November Research Greenhouse—a generous gift from Mort and Iris November in memory of Mr. November's daughter Debra Ann (1953-1977)—will expand opportunities for Case Western Reserve University researchers, students and community programs for biology teachers and classes to use the university's Squirevallee Farm on Fairmount Boulevard in Hunting Valley as a place to study nature.
May 31, 2006
Alumni brothers establish $1.5 million endowment for Case School of Engineering
A $1.5 million gift from Charles H. and John B. Phipps in honor of their father will be a catalyst to keep Case Western Reserve University on the cutting edge of engineering.