Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University | |
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motto | Think beyond the possible |
founding | WRU: 1826 CIT: 1880 CWRU: 1967 |
Sponsorship | Private |
place | Cleveland , Ohio , United States |
President | Barbara R. Snyder |
Students | 9,963 |
Foundation assets | $ 1.619 billion (2011) |
University sports | Spartans ( UAA ) |
Networks | Association of American Universities |
Website | www.case.edu |
The Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland in the US state of Ohio . At the University had 2011 9,963 students enrolled. The university is a member of the Association of American Universities , an association of leading research-intensive North American universities that has existed since 1900.
history
The university was founded in 1967 from a network of the Case Institute of Technology, founded in 1880, and the Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 .
President
president | from | to |
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Robert W. Morse | 1967 | 1970 |
Louis A. Toepfer | 1970 | 1980 |
David V. Ragone | 1980 | 1987 |
Agnar Pytte | 1987 | 1999 |
David H. Auston | 1999 | 2001 |
James W. Wagner | 2001 | 2002 |
Edward M. Hundred | 2002 | 2006 |
Gregory L. Eastwood | 2006 | 2007 |
Barbara R. Snyder | 2007 | today |
Faculties
- Case School of Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
- College of Arts and Sciences (Philosophical Faculty)
- Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (Faculty of Nursing Sciences)
- Mandel School of Applied Social Science (Faculty of Social Work)
- School of Dental Medicine (Dental Faculty)
- School of Graduate Studies (graduate college)
- School of Law (Faculty of Law)
- School of Medicine (Medical Faculty)
students
The 9,963 students enrolled in 2011 came from a total of 93 countries and all 50 US states. About 42.5% of undergraduate students were from Ohio . 56% of the students were male and 44% were female.
Sports
The sports teams are the Spartans. The college is a member of the University Athletic Association and the Presidents' Athletic Conference.
Sights on campus
The Case Western Reserve University campus, located five miles east of downtown Cleveland , is a major cultural hub for the city. In addition to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History , the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art , the Museum of Local History and Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society , the Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Play House theater are located here.
additional
On October 5, 2004, the debate between the two vice-presidential candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards was held at Case Western Reserve University .
The first debate between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden is scheduled for September 29, 2020 . The event was relocated here after the University of Notre Dame , which was originally intended to be the venue, was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States .
Personalities
Arts, journalism and entertainment
- Franklin Cover - actor
- Stephen E. Hefling - Mahler researcher
- Mitzi Hoag - actress
- M. Scott Peck - author and psychologist
- Harvey Pekar - comic book writer
- Don Shula - football coach
- Roger Zelazny - science fiction writer
Government and military
- Dennis Kucinich - Congressman and former Mayor of Cleveland
- Alfredo Palacio - Interim President of Ecuador
- Mike Turner - Congressman and former Mayor of Dayton
- Wolfgang Hamberger - former Lord Mayor of Fulda
Science / technology medicine
- Peter C. Agre - Nobel Prize Medicine 2003
- Paul Berg - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980
- Alfred Goodman Gilman - Nobel Prize in Medicine 1994
- Donald A. Glaser - Nobel Prize in Physics 1960
- Benjamin Goodrich - industrialist
- Corneille JF Heymans - Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology 1938
- George Herbert Hitchings - Nobel Prize Medicine / Physiology 1988
- Donald Ervin Knuth - computer scientist
- Polykarp Kusch - Nobel Prize in Physics 1955
- Paul Christian Lauterbur - Nobel Prize Medicine / Physiology 2003
- John JR Macleod - Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology 1923
- Albert A. Michelson - Nobel Prize in Physics 1907
- Edward W. Morley - Scientist
- Ferid Murad - Nobel Prize Medicine / Physiology 1998
- George A. Olah - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994
- Edward C. Prescott - Nobel Prize in Economics 2004
- Frederick Reines - Nobel Prize in Physics 1995
- Frederick Chapman Robbins - Nobel Prize in Medicine / Physiology 1954
economy
- Christian Homburg
- Craig Newmark - Internet Entrepreneur
- Robert Kearns - inventor of the interval wiper
- Mark Weinberger - Chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young (EY)
Web links
- Case Western Reserve University literature in the catalog of the German National Library
- Case Western Reserve University
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c Office of the University Registrar Fall 2011 Enrollment Statistics ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 2010-2011 Annual Report: Financial and Statistical Highlights
- ↑ Paul LeBlanc, Notre Dame withdraws from hosting first presidential debate due to coronavirus , CNN, July 27, 2020.
Coordinates: 41 ° 30'15 " N , 81 ° 36'30.4" W.