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October 13, 2009
Case Western Reserve University Receives $20.5 Million From Alumnus Donald Goodman and His Wife Ruth Weber Goodman
Case Western Reserve University has received a $20.5 million gift from Donald Goodman, DDS (DEN '45) and Ruth Weber Goodman.
September 02, 2009
Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities Awarded Several Grants to Enhance Programs
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at the Case Western Reserve University College of Arts and Sciences has been awarded a number of grants to enhance its programs.
July 27, 2009
Alumni and Friends Increase Support for Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University's alumni and friends continue to provide generous support for research and scholarship even amid challenging economic times.
June 10, 2009
Case Western Reserve University Receives $5 Million from Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Charles "Bud" Koch
Charles "Bud" Koch, chair of Case Western Reserve University Board of Trustees, and his wife, Katie, have made a $5 million commitment to the university.
May 29, 2009
Figgie Foundation Gives $1.5 Million to Create Orthopaedics Chair at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
The Figgie Foundation has made a $1.5 million gift to endow the Harry E. Figgie III, M.D. Professorship in Orthopaedics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
May 22, 2009
New School of Medicine Chair Memorializes Founder of Department of Family Medicine
The Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a combined commitment of $1.75 million to create the Jack H. Medalie Chair in Home-Centered Health Care.
May 20, 2009
School of Medicine Receives Nearly $1 Million Grant to Study Recovery Mechanisms in Teens Facing Addiction
The John Templeton Foundation has awarded Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine a $942,307 grant to support the work of Maria E. Pagano, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry.
May 08, 2009
$1.5 Million Cleveland Foundation Grant Continues to Build Proteomics Infrastructure at Case Western Reserve University
The Cleveland Foundation has made a $1.5 million grant to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to support second-phase funding for the Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics.
May 05, 2009
Momentum: Case Western Reserve University Announces Nearly $9 Million in New Gifts
Case Western Reserve University has received $8.75 million in new gifts from prominent local and national philanthropists.
May 04, 2009
$1.5 Million Gift to Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Accelerates Medical Discoveries in Cardiac Patient Care through Translational Research
The Robert S. and Sylvia K. Reitman Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, has made a $1.5 million commitment to Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals.
February 19, 2009
Wolf Family Scholarship Fosters Next Generation of Leaders
The Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Scholarship recruits students who exemplify the leadership qualities of the two accomplished alumni it memorializes.
February 04, 2009
Local Couple Donates $7.5 Million to Weatherhead School of Management
Case Western Reserve University has recieved a $7.5 million commitment from Fairmount Minerals President and CEO, Charles D. Fowler '90 and his wife, Charlotte, to support Sustainable Enterprise initiatives at the Weatherhead School of Management.
February 03, 2009
Case Western Reserve University's Baker-Nord Center Awarded Major National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities has been awarded a $650,000 NEH Challenge Grant
January 22, 2009
Weatherhead Foundations Make $2 Million Commitment to Support Management and Medicine at Case Western Reserve
The Weatherhead Foundation and the Albert J. Weatherhead III Foundation have donated $2 million to the university to further fund respective endowments at the Weatherhead School of Management and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
October 21, 2008
They're Back: IRA Rollovers Offer a Great Way to Give
Renewed legislation allows individuals aged 70-1/2 or older to make outright gifts from individual retirement accounts without tax complications.
October 20, 2008
Anonymous gift of $2 million advances translational research at Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University has received an anonymous $2 million gift to endow the program directorship of the Coulter-Case Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP) in the department of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University.
October 08, 2008
Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association makes $5 million commitment to Case Western Reserve University
Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association Makes $5 Million Gift
October 04, 2008
Frank and Jocelyne Linsalata Donate $3 Million to Case Western Reserve University
Frank N. Linsalata, the outgoing chair of the Case Western Reserve University Board of Trustees, and his wife, Jocelyne are donating $3 million to his alma mater, earmarking the funding to specifically enrich the undergraduate student experience on campus.
August 26, 2008
Dentist Plans His Future, Helps the Dental School
Philip Dixon (DEN '83) and his wife, Carolyn, have incorporated the School of Dental in their retirement plans by making a deferred payment charitable gift annuity.
August 15, 2008
New Endowment Opens Doors for Political Science Undergrads
Political Science Department is now able to offer summer internship support--thanks to the gift of Liz Hill '97
August 12, 2008
Friend of Case Western Reserve seeds Energy Institute's STEM effort
Mark Gelfand makes a leadership gift to create the Engineering Technology Education Fund.
New Graduate Fellowship to Support Energy Institute
The Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University has received a $250,000 gift from Dr. Walter J. Culver (CIT ‘62/’64) to endow the Walt and Sylvia Culver Engineering Fellowship for Sustainable Infrastructure.
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
February 13, 2008
Alumnus makes final "cheer" for Case with $1.1 million bequest
John Oshchypok made a final cheer for his alma mater when he made a bequest of $1.1 million gift to advance energy-related research in the chemistry department.
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
Saint Luke’s Foundation Makes A Lasting Investment In School, City Youth
School of Dental Medicine reflects on the Saint Luke’s Foundation's $3.2 million giving history to Healthy Smiles Sealant Program.
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.
October 16, 2007
David Cooperrider appointed first Fairmount Minerals Chair in Social Entrepreneurship
Case Western Reserve University Professor David Cooperrider will become the first Fairmount Minerals Chair in Social Entrepreneurship, with a task of teaching and promoting the ideals of sustainability that are employed in the real life work of its benefactor, Fairmount Minerals, Ltd.
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 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
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.
August 16, 2006
Beyond Study Abroad: New Initiative Promotes International Learning Experiences for Case Students
Under the three-year, $205,000 grant from the McGregor Fund, the College of Arts and Sciences will establish a Worldwide Learning Environment (WLE) program.
Scholarship fund established to provide financial aid for Case Western Reserve University nursing undergraduates
Undergraduate students at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing have received a $550,000 financial aid boost from the nation's largest private funder devoted exclusively to nursing students and nursing education.
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 26, 2005
Dr. Grace Brody Sustains her Life's Work
When one is passionate about what she does, no obstacle is too great to overcome. When Grace Brody, an emerita...
Walter and Estelle Brahm Share Passion for Libraries
Walter and Estelle Brahm have endowed a fund to support the Kelvin Smith Library--and celebrate their 70-year love of books and each other.
May 26, 2003
Dr. Rogoff Practices Medicine, Philanthropy
The practice of medicine is unique, reflects Robert Rogoff (ADL '39, MED '42). "It gives you the opportunity to help...
Esther McNeil: Guided by Compassion, Practicality, and Generosity
Forget any 1930s movie version of what a 'benefactor' is. Like the many thousands of individuals whose generosity helps to...
The Kohrmans Help with College Expenses
One of the most important gifts that Arthur F. Kohrman, M.D., MED '59 says he has made was a college...
Doctor Avoids Capital Gains Tax, Diversifies Portfolio Through Charitable Remainder Unitrust
As a co-founder of a publicly traded biotechnology company, James C. Kauer, CIT '51, held highly appreciated shares in...
Richard and Ruth Ginter Remember the University that Brought Them Together
They feel they would not have what they have—happy lives, doing what they like without the education they received...