Appointments

The 2020 Staff Advisory Council’s general election is complete, with several individuals elected and re-elected as members for the 2020-22 term. The following individuals were elected: College of Arts and SciencesMeagan RodgersRenee Holland-GolphinKathryn Shafer Case School of…

Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II and professor of art history, was named a councilor of the Medieval Academy of America. Council members serve as the board of directors of the academy, and their duties include establishing the academy's policy,…

Burcu Gurkan, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was recently named a Fellow for Scialog: Negative Emissions Science. As part of the new, multi-year initiative, Gurkan will join more than 50 promising early-career scientists taking up the pressing…

Angela Clark-Taylor, director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, was named treasurer of the National Women’s Studies Association. Clark-Taylor’s appointment came through a special election to fill vacant seats on the association’s governing council. Her term will be from November 2020 to…

Craig Lanier Allen, the postdoctoral fellow in African American history in the Department of History, has received an inaugural Emerging Voices Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Allen is a historian of the United States in the 20th century, focusing on foreign…

Like many scientists before him, Walter Boron’s medical discoveries are founded in basic scientific research, figuring out how things work. His breakthrough happened early, as a graduate student at Washington University in the mid-1970s. His first publication reporting the initial example of the…

Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), is widely considered to be the world’s leading scholar of Tibet in anthropology. He is the first Western anthropologist to conduct…

Case Western Reserve University engineer and researcher Umut Gurkan has been named a senior member of the August 2020 class of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Gurkan is the Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Case School of Engineering, where…

Georgia Cowart, professor of music, was elected to honorary membership in the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) by the organization’s governing board. Honorary members are chosen for “their outstanding contribution to the study and presentation of seventeenth-century music.” She is one…

The inaugural class of Case Western Reserve University Translational Fellows has been selected. The program was open to senior doctoral students and postdocs working with a principal investigator on a CWRU-based technology with the potential for commercialization. The program seeks to provide…