Appointments

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Michiko Watanabe, professor of pediatrics, was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering AIMBE College of Fellows during a ceremony at the National Academy of Sciences. About the organization The College of Fellows is composed of the top 2 percent of medical and…

Raghav Tripathi, a dual medical and Master of Public Health student, has been chosen to participate in the annual Telluride Patient Safety Educational Roundtable this summer in Telluride, Colorado. He is one of only 40 medical students from around the country chosen to participate, thanks to…

President Barbara R. Snyder was elected to chair of the board of the American Council on Education (ACE). She became board chair during ACE2018, ACE's 100th annual meeting, in Washington, D.C., last month. President Snyder will serve for one year in this position. She previously served as vice…

YeongAe Heo, an assistant professor of civil engineering, was selected as a 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers ExCEEd Fellow. Heo also is a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellow. The ExCEEd Teaching Workshop is a six-day…