Appointments

Burcu Gurkan, assistant professor in the chemical engineering department, was selected by the editors of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research as a member of their 2019 Class of Influential Researchers. This class comprises 32 researchers from across the globe. Read more about the class....

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, has been nominated to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM). FIMM is an international researc...

On Sept. 27, the Secretary-General of the United Nations appointed Case Western Reserve University Adjunct Professor of Law James Johnson the chief prosecutor of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone. Since 2013, Johnson has been the director of the Case Western Reserve University School of La...

Nora L. Nock, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, was appointed to the inaugural Statistical Review Board (SRB) of the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) journals Aug. 1. Members of the SRB will provide evaluations of statistical methods and analy...

To advance the goal of promoting and recognizing good mentoring practices, faculty members are invited to participate in the Office of Faculty Development’s Mentor Fellows program each year. Led by Sarah de Swart, director of faculty development, and Joseph Koonce, emeritus professor of biology, th...

The Women Staff Leadership Development Institute (WSLDI) program has announced its 2019-20 cohort. These women were chosen through a selective process and represent the 12th class of this program. Individuals will spend a year participating in leadership workshops, self-assessments, career visioning...

The Fowler Center welcomed Megan Buchter as the new director of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit Monday, Aug. 12. Buchter has been part of the Fowler Center for more than 10 years. She first got involved with the center as a student volunteer while working toward her Case...

Antibiotic resistance, which develops when harmful bacteria and other damaging microorganisms become resistant to the antibiotics that once killed them, threatens to undo many of the powerful health gains achieved by the use of antibiotics. The problem arises from overuse and misuse of antibiotics i...

Maybe an answer to the vexing neurological mysteries of epilepsy will come to Dominique Durand during his preferred thinking time: on his 7-mile bicycle commute from his home in Shaker Heights to Case Western Reserve University. Or maybe the critical bioengineering breakthrough Durand desires most—...

Cocaine-exposed infants, children with chronic lung disease arising from prematurity, babies suffering from the effects of fetal exposure to the drug Ecstasy—all are benefitting from the scholar’s eye and compassionate heart of Lynn Singer, professor of population and quantitative health sciences, p...