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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Clara Harb, a Master of Public Health (MPH) and Master of Arts in bioethics and medical humanities student at Case Western Reserve University, was selected to join AJPH (American Journal of Public Health) Student Think Tank. Harb and five others were selected from over 200 applicants from…

Adrianne Fletcher, assistant professor and assistant dean for diversity and inclusion at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was appointed to serve as the first director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at the Supreme Court of Ohio. As the director of DEI, Fletcher will assist…

Ronald Hickman, a four-time Case Western Reserve University alumnus and an associate professor and associate dean for research at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, assumed the role of editor-in-chief of the academic journal Applied Nursing Research (ANR) in January. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, the…