Appointments

President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III announced today that they have appointed Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Director Stan Gerson to serve as interim dean for the medical school and interim senior vice president for medical affairs. Both appointments are effective July 1. Gerso...

Organization represents nation’s top higher education institutions, including all of Ivy League, public flagships, Stanford, Johns Hopkins & CWRU President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that she will become the next leader of the organization that represents the 63 leading research universiti...

Suzanne Rivera, vice president for research and technology management, was recently elected member-at-large of the Section on Social, Economic & Political Sciences of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Rivera will serve a four-year term that begins Feb. 17. Suzanne Rive...

As Case Western Reserve University moves forward with its Think Big strategic plan, a team of faculty and staff members have been tapped to serve as “Pathway Leaders.” The plan, which formally launched during an event Nov. 19, outlines a new North Star for the university and sets forth four visiona...

President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the appointment of the Weatherhead School of Management’s Michael Goldberg as the inaugural executive director of the university’s Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship. “Michael’s international experience as a business leader an...

President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the appointment of a longtime Ohio State University diversity leader as Case Western Reserve’s new vice president for inclusion, diversity and equal opportunity. Robert Solomon, an Akron native who serves as Ohio State’s assista...

President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the appointment of an accomplished scientist and academic leader as the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Joy K. Ward, an associate dean for research and dean’s professor at the University of Kansas (KU), will begin...

Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, was appointed curator of the Advanced Materials Strategic Intelligence Briefing site of the World Economic Forum. Advincula helped create this site and the categories by which members of the World Economic Forum have used it ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently appointed Dan Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, to the new School Safety Working Group. The working group was created as part of the new Ohio School Safety Center. The gro...

Angela Clark-Taylor, director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, was asked to chair the National Women's Center Summit/Women's Center Pre-Conference through the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) for 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is the only national professional conference ...