Appointments

Christopher Nurre was named director of professional services of Case Western Reserve University’s Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS). ISSACS was created in 2016 to educate and empower faculty, students and partners to conduct research and accelerate breakthroughs in the eme...

Amy G. Hise, associate professor of pathology and a physician at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, recently began a two-year term as president of the International Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society (IEIIS). The organization’s mission is to promote the exchange of ideas and new data ...

Nicole Parker, assistant director of field education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, was named to the Lake-Geauga Fund of the Cleveland Foundation’s advisory committee. Parker also is an interprofessional faculty facilitato...

Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II in the Department of Art History and Art, was recently elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, the highest honor that the MAA can bestow upon North American medievalists. Fellows are scholars who have mad...

Joshua Centor, a PhD student in pathology, was recently awarded a predoctoral fellowship by the PhRMA Foundation for work related to Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is an incurable autoimmune disease involving destruction of pancreatic beta cells by autoreactive T cells and compromised immunosuppr...

Anat Alon-Beck, assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was elected to the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Transactional Law & Skills Executive Committee. The AALS is a nonprofit organization of almost 200 law schools across the country. The AALS...

Susan Hatters Friedman, professor of psychiatry, began her one-year term as president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) in October 2021. Her term will address the theme "The Whole Truth: Recognizing Culture and Gender in Forensic Psychiatry." The AAPL is an organization of ps...

Aloen L. Townsend, the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, has been selected to serve on the University Budget Committee (UBC) as a representative of the Mandel School. Her term began in November 2021 and will continue th...

Case Western Reserve University researcher Zheng-Rong Lu has been elected as a fellow of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The honor highlights the overall career and impact an inventor has had in their field and society as a whole. Lu is the M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor...

Case Western Reserve today announced that veteran athletics administrator TJ Shelton will become the university’s next James C. Wyant Director of Athletics, effective Jan. 1. Shelton, currently a senior associate athletic director at Ohio State University, previously spent 15 years in the athletics...