Appointments

Laura Voith Laura Voith, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was nominated and selected to be in the Diversity Scholars Network run by the National Center for Institutional Diversity at University of Michigan. The Diversity Scholars Networ...

Claire Dorsett is coming home. Dorsett, who grew up in Chardon and explored the campus of Case Western Reserve University as a high school student during summer learning programs, is returning to Northeast Ohio to lead Sears think[box]. Dorsett brings with her a wealth of experience in education,...

The Great Lakes Energy Institute recently announced its cohort of 2024 Distinguished Fellows. These distinguished fellowships are named after key supporters of GLEI and the ThinkEnergy Fellows program. Lexi Knight was named the Walt and Sylvia Culver Distinguished Fellow. This honorary designation ...

Juscelino Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law at the School of Law, was reappointed to serve on the U.S. Roster of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) Binational Trade Dispute Panelists through 2025. The USMCA Secretariat is administering 13 North American Fr...

Ronald Hickman Ronald Hickman, professor at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, will be inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing’s International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame this summer. Hickman is one of 30 world-renowned nurse researchers selected for the hon...

Umut Gurkan, the Wilbert J. Austin Professor of Engineering, was re-elected for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine program. Gurkan, one of five members from the previous cohort who is extending their service by one year, ...

Kenneth Remy, the Ellery Sedgwick, Jr. Chair and Distinguished Scientist in Cardiovascular Research and inaugural director of the Blood, Heart, Lung, and Immunology Research Center at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, was recently elected chair of the Research Se...

Since stepping in as interim co-deans for the Weatherhead School of Management in September 2022, J.B. Silvers and Andrew Medvedev (CWR '97) are now embarking on new endeavors: Medvedev, an active alumnus and long-time investment banker and investor, will become the school's dean, and Silvers, an ex...

Vice Chair Julie Gerberding (WRC ’77, MED ’81), first woman director of the CDC, to become chair in June 2025

Daniel J. Flannery, the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, was elected a 2024 Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), a distinguished honorific society of prominent scholars, top res...