Appointments

The Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship has announced the selection of the 2020-21 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…

The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library has announced the selection of the 2020-21 Freedman Faculty Fellows. The program supports full-time, board-appointed, tenured or tenure-track faculty, and clinical research faculty at the rank of assistant professor or above. The…

Case Western Reserve University Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III has been elected vice president of the Research Division of the American Historical Association (AHA).  According to AHA Executive Director James Grossman, Vinson will play an integral role in promoting historical…

Heather Burton, former director of National Science Foundation Advance Institutions Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership-National (IDEAL-N) and Partners Institutions Faculty and Student Development, has been appointed as Case Western Reserve University’s incoming senior director for faculty…

Photo taken prior to social distancing guidelines. Elizabeth Meckes and Elisabeth Werner, professors in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, were selected as 2020 Simons Fellows. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year,…

Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, assistant professor of pathology, was selected as one of the 10 fellows in the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Public Policy Fellows Program for the year 2020-21. Fellows will attend a two-day Capitol Hill Day in Washington, D.C. They take part in a training…

Marie Lathers, the Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Humanities in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, was appointed the Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Visiting Professor in Humanities for 2020-21 at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. At CWRU,…

From a young age, Joy K. Ward, the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, knew science would be her calling. By the time she was 7 years old, Ward was already collecting interesting specimens from the forest near her home and looking at cells through her father’s microscope. As a senior in…

Carol M. Musil, dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and the Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing, was named a Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Inductee. Musil is a distinguished scholar and has served as dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing…

Mark Joseph, the Leona Bevis and Marguerite Haynam Associate Professor of Community Development in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, assumed the helm as chair of the University Budget Committee (UBC) July 1. Joseph succeeds Christopher Cullis, the Francis Hobart…