Appointments

Elizabeth Meckes, professor in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, was named 2019 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. The honor was in recognition of Meckes’ contributions to Stein's method and to random matrix theory. Read more about this year’s hono...

Mark Joseph, the Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Associate Professor in Community Development and founding director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, was elected to serve on the governing board of the Urban Affairs Association. The association is an international body of scholar...

Elisabeth Werner, professor in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, was awarded the Caroline-Herschel Visiting Professorship at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. The university-wide Caroline-Herschel Professorship is awarded to “an excellent international scientist to ...

Vice President for Research and Technology Management Suzanne Rivera will serve on the Association of American Universities (AAU) Strategy for Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination Advisory Board. The board seeks to identify challenges and share effective practices and policies concerning se...

Tim Webster, associate professor of law and director of Asian Legal Studies, was one of 12 scholars selected for the fifth cohort of the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future. The network identifies American scholars and professionals who can: Further develop U.S.-Japan relations; Inform the American p...

Rebecca M. Patton was named the inaugural holder of the Lucy Jo Atkinson Professorship in Perioperative Nursing at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. About Patton A member of the nursing school faculty since 2011 and a former two-term president of the Amer...

Kristen Connors, a first-year law student, has been awarded the prestigious Peggy Browning Fellowship, established for law students in labor law and workers' rights. About the fellowship The fellowship supports first- and second-year law students as they complete the Summer Fellowship Program, a 1...

Susan Helper, the Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics, will be a co-director of a new program looking at innovation, prosperity and opportunity through the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Helper was one of 12 applicants selected to participate in this program, which will look at h...

Ayesha Bell Hardaway, named new director of the Social Justice Law Center at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, said she plans to further the school’s long and storied history of advocating for social justice. Those efforts have included improving Cuyahoga County’s bail/bond system,...

Francesca Brittan, associate professor of music, has joined the editorial board of 19th-Century Music. Published by the University of California Press, this journal is the leading venue for scholarship focused on music between 1780 and 1930, including “far-reaching investigations at the leading edge...