Angelou encourages graduates to become rainbows

Maya Angelou lilted, laughed and recited poetry while imparting a message of hope to the University's classes of 2002: CWRU graduates are the rainbows in a world clouded with cruelty.

Commencement photo album

CWRU, Cleveland Clinic form historic partnership, create college of medicine

CWRU and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) have announced a landmark agreement to form a new medical education and research program. The new Cleveland Clinic College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University will enroll its first entering class in 2004 and will prepare physician-investigators and scientists dedicated to advancing biomedical research and practice.

Pomp and circumstance

The academic procession led by University Marshal D. Keith Robinson (left) and Interim President James Wagner opened commencment ceremonies this weekend by marching from Adelbert Hall to the Veale Center.

Start your engines

Jeffrey Luffey, a former naval flight officer and 2002 graduate of the CWRU School of Dentistry, has seen the critical needs for health care in the third world. And over the past four years, his vision and organization have made a difference in over 1,000 lives of poor people in the Dominican Republic whose medical facilities were decimated by Hurricane Georges in 1998.