Appointments

Elaine Borawski, director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, has been named one of the American Academy of Health Behavior's (AAHB) 2017 Fellows. Fellow status in the AAHB is granted in recognition of significant contributions to the field of health behavior research and…

Nick Barendt has been named executive director of Case Western Reserve University’s Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS). ISSACS was created in 2016 to empower faculty, students and partners to conduct research and catalyze breakthroughs in the emerging economy known as the…

Case Western Reserve’s next provost and executive vice president will be Ben Vinson III, an accomplished historian of Latin America now serving as dean of George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences. “Ben Vinson III will bring an exemplary record of leadership,…

Mario Garcia-Sanz, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and the inaugural Milton and Tamar Maltz Endowed Chair in Energy Innovation, has been selected for a two-year stint as a program director at the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy…

Mark Joseph Mark Joseph, the Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Associate Professor in Community Development, has been named to the George Gund Foundation’s board of trustees. Joseph is the founding director of the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, which conducts research and consulting…

James T’ien James T’ien, the Leonard Case Jr. Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been elected to the inaugural class of fellows of the Combustion Institute. As dedicated members of the international combustion community, the 125 elected fellows…

David Cooperrider, the Char and Chuck Fowler Professor of Business as an Agent of World Benefit and the Fairmount Santrol - David L. Cooperrider Professor in Appreciative Inquiry, was recently appointed as the faculty director of the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World…

Stacie Williams, team leader of digital learning and scholarship for the Kelvin Smith Library, was named to the Digital Learning Federation (DLF) Advisory Committee. DLF is a networked member institution that includes a community of practitioners who advance research, learning, social justice and…

Cassandra Burke Robertson, the John Deaver Drinko-BakerHostetler Professor of Law and director of the Center for Professional Ethics, was recently appointed to the Study Committee on Garnishment of Wages in Bank Accounts by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC). The committee will examine the…

Suzanne Rivera, Case Western Reserve University’s vice president for research and technology management, has been elected to the board of directors for the Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R). Her three-year term began this month.  PRIM&R advances the highest ethical…