Appointments

Sharon E. Milligan, associate professor and associate dean for academic affairs at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was appointed to the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Katherine A. Kendall Institute for International Social Work Education Advisory…

Bethany Kersten, a first-year PhD student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was recently awarded a Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) Integrated University Program (IUP) fellowship. NEUP-IUP fellowships support students pursuing graduate degrees in nuclear…

Kathleen Farkas, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and Richard Romaniuk, lecturer at the Mandel School, have been selected as visiting scholars in the Visiting Scholars in Social Work Advances 2.0 program for summer 2020. Social Work…

Sonia Minnes, the Verna Houck Motto Professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Applied Social Sciences, has been named the new research director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies. In addition to her contributions as a member of the Schubert Center leadership team, Minnes…

An innovator in novel ways to deliver medical curriculum with a passion for making the health care system safer for patients will become vice dean for medical education at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Lia Logio Lia Logio, known for her energetic and innovative approach to…

Former Weatherhead School dean and Tulane president emeritus starts Oct. 1 The Board of Trustees has appointed former long-time Case Western Reserve dean and faculty member Scott Cowen to be the university’s interim president, effective Oct. 1. “Scott’s extensive knowledge of our campus and…

Brian Gran, professor in the Department of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University, has been selected as a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Jefferson Science Fellow (JSF) by the U.S. Department of State. During his year-long fellowship, Gran, who has secondary…

Mark Chupp and Ayesha Bell Hardaway have been named co-directors of the Social Justice Institute, effective May 1. They succeed the College of Arts and Sciences’ John Flores, associate professor in the Department of History, and Timothy Black, associate professor in the Department of Sociology,…

J. Alan Diehl has been appointed deputy director and chief operating officer of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, a collaboration of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals. This newly created role will provide substantive oversight of the cancer center to…

Ruth Keri, professor of pharmacology and associate director for basic research in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Endocrine Society for a three-year term. The Endocrine Society has more than 18,000 members, including basic, translational and…