Appointments

Four faculty members and seven alumni of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing were named to the 2018 class of fellows for the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). In total, CWRU affiliates represented 11 of 195 members of this year’s class. The faculty fellows are: Celeste Alfes, associate p...

Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, was elected to membership in the National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippines, one of the highest honors the country awards scientists. Advincula was officially inducted at the Investiture Ceremony in Manila l...

Nick Gurski, assistant professor of mathematics, has been appointed as a founding editor of the new journal Compositionality, named after the principle that describes and quantifies how complex things can be assembled out of simpler parts. The open-access journal will feature research using composi...

President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the reappointment of Pamela B. Davis as dean of the School of Medicine and senior vice president for medical affairs. Davis, who has led the school since 2006, has accepted this reappointment but will return to the faculty after...

Manish Valiathan, associate professor of orthodontics, pediatric dentistry and plastic surgery and director of the Craniofacial, Surgical and Special Care Orthodontics Fellowship, was named assistant dean for clinical affairs at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine. In this...

Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, was invited to join the editorial review board of Transnational Corporations as it transitions to a more academically rigorous, relevant format. The journal is an official, refereed research journal on issues related to investmen...

President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that the leader of one of the nation’s top programs for electrical and computer engineering will become the Case School of Engineering’s next dean this fall. An accomplished researcher in system and control theory, Venkataramanan “Ragu” Balakrishnan has s...

Xinyou Ke, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was awarded the 2018 ECS F.M. Becket Summer Fellowship by The Electrochemical Society. Ke has been conducting research with Robert F. Savinell, the George S. Dively Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biom...

YeongAe Heo, assistant professor of civil engineering, was selected for the American Society of Civil Engineers Structural Engineering Institute Codes and Standards Activities Division committee's Young Professional member. She will serve on the ASCE7-22 Subcommittee on Tsunami Loads and Effects. T...

Jonathan H. Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation, was appointed to a judicial advisory commission. As a member of the bipartisan group of legal experts, Adler will assist Ohio senators Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown in filling a...