Appointments

Alp Sehirlioglu, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, was honored as a fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) this May. Sehirlioglu was one of 19 members of ACerS to be named a 2022 fellow, an accolade recognizing scholars for their con...

Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, was elected to the board of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs. The council seeks engagement in international affairs through education, citizen diplomacy and public dialogue. Programs develop global awareness and address ke...

Deepak Sarma, professor of Indian religion and philosophy at Case Western Reserve University, was recently named to two external positions. He was elected the vice president of the Grateful Dead Studies Association, an interdisciplinary academic organization for the study of the American rock band ...

Eileen Anderson, director of education for the bioethics and medical humanities programs at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was recently appointed as a faculty member of the Judicial College of Ohio’s Supreme Court. In her new position, Anderson will design and teach courses on...

Dean Tufts’ facilities experience ranges from leading a U.S. Navy mobile construction battalion in Iraq to driving the 21-day build of a COVID-19 field hospital at a large public university. But in the 33 years since he earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, he’s never worked at a...

More than 300 faculty members from Case Western Reserve University have been named in the Stanford University - Elsevier list of the top 2% most-cited scientists in various disciplines worldwide. The database is created by experts at Stanford University, based on data from Elsevier’s Scopus, the pu...

Brian Gran, professor of sociology at Case Western Reserve University College of Arts and Sciences, was invited to participate in a key stakeholder consultation on a national Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally (Global GBV Strategy) on Feb. 1. The Global GBV Strategy ...

Kenneth Chance, dean of the School of Dental Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, was recently appointed the president of the Supreme Chapter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU), the national dental honor society. Founded in 1914 by Professor G.V. Black, the organization represents and promotes t...

Claudia J. Coulton, the Lillian F. Harris Professor of Urban Research and Social Change, and Dexter R. Voisin, the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Dean of Applied Social Sciences, were recognized for their prominence in academic research in Stanford University’s database of standardized citation ind...

Juscelino Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was re-appointed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to serve on the 2022-2023 U.S. roster of binational trade panelists to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agree...