Appointments

Aloen Townsend, the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was appointed by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) to serve on a national Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) Gerontology and Geriatrics…

Reshmi Parameswaran was recently appointed director of the Cancer Biology Training Program (CBTP). The goal of the CBTP is to train PhD and MD/PhD scientists who will advance research on the causes, diagnosis, progression and treatment of experimental and human cancer. The CBTP provides a PhD…

Kath M. Bogie, professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the School of Medicine, was recently selected to serve as an inaugural Wound Healing Society (WHS) Associate Fellow. This fellowship recognizes her commitment to advancing the field of wound healing and service to WHS. Learn more…

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science, has recognized two faculty members from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the class of 2024 AAAS Fellows. So honored were…

As a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) since 1994, Kathleen A. Harper, a lifetime member, will receive the Winter 2025 AAPT Fellowship in January. The fellowship recognizes AAPT members who have shown “exceptional contribution to AAPT's mission to enhance the…

The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics chose Pavel Fileviez Perez, associate professor of physics, for a Simons Fellowship to work on particle physics and cosmology. The Galileo Galilei Institute is one of the leading centers for theoretical physics. In partnership with the…

The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library announced the recipients of the 2024–25 Freedman faculty and student fellows. The annual fellowship program supports advancing digital scholarship research projects from Case Western Reserve University faculty and students. The…

Aysegul Zeren was appointed the new pre-law advisor, effective as of July, succeeding the recently retired Terri Mester. Zeren, in her role as assistant director for student experience, will continue the work Mester began in guiding students on their journeys to legal careers. Zeren also is…

Researchers Gary E. Wnek and the late Arnold Caplan recognized for groundbreaking innovations Polymer scientist Gary E. Wnek and stem-cell biologist Arnold Caplan have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the highest professional distinction awarded solely to…

University of Michigan Professor David Gerdes will begin at Case Western Reserve in March