Appointments

“When you see a possible opportunity show up, take it. You never know what might happen,” said Deborah Lindell (NUR ’03), the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and a new Fulbright Scholar who departed in September for an eight-month sojourn to Northw...

The Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship has announced the selection of the 2021-22 Veale Entrepreneurship Fellows. This program supports faculty, staff or teams to create new initiatives, including specific types of engagement efforts, research proposals and formal or informal educational activitie...

Ayesha Bell Hardaway, associate professor of law, co-director of the Social Justice Institute, and director of the Social Justice Law Center, was honored recently with the induction into two prestigious societies. Earlier this November, Bell Hardaway and 10 other honorees were inducted into the So...

The 2021 Staff Advisory Council (SAC) general election has been completed. Following are the newly elected and re-elected SAC members for the 2021–23 term: Academic Administration Angela Clark-Taylor Janee Kelly Ray Krajci Ricky Marcus Elizabeth Miller Carlier Myers Jack, Joseph and Morton Mand...

Rachel Lutner Since joining Case Western Reserve University in June 2021, Rachel Lutner has made it her mission to help students get to know the Office of Equity. Lutner says what she enjoys most about being part of Case Western Reserve is working with students on the different causes and initiati...

Faculty director of think[box] starts this week as interim VP for research and technology management Provost Ben Vinson III announced today that James McGuffin-Cawley, faculty director for the Larry Sears and Sally Zlonick Sears think[box], took on a second campus leadership role this week: interim...

Case Western Reserve University engineer and researcher Umut Gurkan, known for groundbreaking research that has revolutionized lab-on-a-chip and point-of-care medical diagnostic technologies for underserved populations, has been selected as a member of the 2021-23 National Academies of Sciences, Eng...

Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the appointment of Emory University’s dean and librarian Yolanda Cooper as Case Western Reserve’s vice provost and Lindseth Family University Librarian. She will begin her new role Jan. 1. “I am incredibly pleased to welcome Yolanda as the newest member of our...

The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library has announced the selection of the 2021-22 Freedman Faculty Fellows. The annual fellowship program supports tenured or tenure-track faculty as well as clinical research faculty and aids these researchers in integrating digital tools...

Ozan Akkus, Kent H. Smith Professor of Engineering, was selected as the first faculty member to lead as director of the Office of Faculty Development early this September. The Office of Faculty Development provides resources and programming in order to support the duties and goals of CWRU faculty me...