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Thompson named top educator of first-year students in the U.S.

Lee Thompson, chair of the Department of Psychological Sciences, has earned the McGraw-Hill Excellence in Teaching First-Year Seminars Award. She is the third person (and the first Case Western Reserve faculty member) to win the national recognition

Professor shows Fermat’s Last Theorem can be proved more simply

Fermat’s Last Theorem—the idea that a certain simple equation had no solutions— went unsolved for nearly 350 years until Oxford mathematician Andrew Wiles created a proof in 1995. Now, Colin McLarty, Truman P. Handy Professor of Philosophy, has shown the theorem can be proved more simply.

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Study examines family anger and forgiveness when relative is dying

Watching a loved one die tests some family members’ relationships with God or the higher being of one’s faith. And the spiritual anger and resentment grow with the level of pain and suffering their family member endures, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University.

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Astrophysical research supports alternative to dark matter theory

Using modified laws of gravity, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Weizmann Institute of Science closely predicted a key property measured in faint dwarf galaxies that are satellites of the nearby giant spiral galaxy Andromeda.

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