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Faculty Member Clark Distelhorst Passes Away
Clark Distelhorst, MD, a long-standing faculty member of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology, the Department of Medicine at University Hospitals and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, passed away on July 3, 2023. His wife Lynne shared that Dr.…
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Sossey-Alaoui Receives $2.3M from NIH to Study Breast Cancer and Health Disparities in African-American Women
Khalid Sossey-Alaoui, PhD, member of Case CCC's Molecular Oncology Program, received a five-year, $2.3 million grant to study mechanisms mediating "triple-negative" breast cancer and health disparities in African-American women. Among genetically distinct breast cancers, those classified as…
Sudha Chakrapani appointed Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students, I am happy to announce that I am appointing Sudha Chakrapani, PhD to the position of chair of the Department of Pharmacology. She has served as the interim chair since November 2022, demonstrating the leadership, vision and commitment needed to lead the department…
Student Spotlight: Valeria Stutz
Class Year: May 2024 Degree Program: MSW On-Campus Concentration: Mental Health with Children and Adolescents Hometown: Evanston, Illinois Name of Summer Job/Volunteer Organization: America SCORES Explain what you're doing this summer. I am teaching a poetry curriculum…
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Google Workspace changes creating extended wait time for [U]Tech Service Desk calls
The [U]Tech Service Desk is experiencing an unusually high call volume at 216.368.HELP (4357) due to Google Workspace changes.  [U]Tech recommends members of the campus community needing assistance submit tickets through help@case.edu or the forms on help.case.edu.
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Engineering’s Satish Viswanath receives honor for imaging informatics work
Satish Viswanath, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, recently received the Imaging Informatics Innovator Award from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine. This annual award recognizes individuals for their work in informatics technology development with…
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Students create video game to teach local K-9 students math
Last year, Marcel Duvivier, Jeremiah Mubiru and Ana Perez Cespedes started developing a video game to help kindergarten through ninth grade students in the David’s Challenge program learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This past spring, they finally had the chance to see the…
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Biomedical engineering student  Zoe Sekyonda receives the 2023 ASH Graduate Hematology Award
The American Society of Hematology awarded Zoe Sekyonda, a fourth-year biomedical engineering PhD student, the 2023 ASH Graduate Hematology Award (AHGA). The award encourages graduate students in the United States and Canada to pursue careers in academic hematology. With research focused on…
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Weatherhead School’s Richard Boyatzis earns recognition for work in positive psychology
Richard Boyatzis, Distinguished University Professor and the H. Clark Ford Professor at Weatherhead School of Management, was awarded the Christopher J. Peterson Gold Medal from the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA). The honor recognizes an IPPA member who best exemplifies…
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Article by Weatherhead School’s David Cooperrider, alumna Lindsey Godwin earns accolade
David Cooperrider, the Char and Chuck Fowler Professor of Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Weatherhead School of Management, penned an article with alumna Lindsey Godwin (GRS ’08, organizational behavior) that recently earned an accolade. Titled “Our Earthshot Moment: Net Positive OD for…