Appointments

Materials Research Society, the largest organization for the materials community, recently appointed Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, as the new editor-in-chief of MRS Communications. Published by the Materials Research Society and Cambridge University…

Juscelino Colares, the Schott-van den Eynden Professor of Business Law and professor of political science, was selected as a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Chapter 19 roster member. He began his term April 1 and will serve through March 18, 2018. NAFTA Chapter 19 is a dispute…

Jeffrey L. Duerk, dean of the Case School of Engineering, was elected by his colleagues in the College of Fellows in the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) to serve as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors as a director-at-large. Jeffrey Duerk AIMBE is…

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was invited to be a standing member of the National Institutes of Health Biodata Management and Analysis study section within the Center for…

Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, will serve as the president of the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association for the 2017-18 academic year. She recently finished a term as program chair of the section. The International…

Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich named the School of Law’s Cassandra Burke Robertson one of four term-appointed commissioners on the Ohio State Council of Uniform State Laws. Burke, professor of law and the Laura B. Chisolm Distinguished Research Scholar, will serve on the council until June 2018. The…

Alp Sehirlioglu, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was appointed an associate editor for the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. The journal is ranked No. 2 in the materials science-ceramics category and has provided scientists,…

Faculty associate Lisa Damour recently joined the Schubert Center for Child Studies as a senior adviser. Damour is the author of The New York Times bestseller Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood. She also directs the Laurel School’s Center for Research on…

Claudia J. Coulton, the Lillian F. Harris Professor of Urban Research & Social Change and Distinguished University Professor, was selected as a 2017 Fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). Coulton also co-founded and co-directs the Center on Urban Poverty and Community…

M. Cenk Cavusoglu, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was elected to the College of Fellows at the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). AIMBE fellows are a select group of individuals, who represent the top 2 percent of the medical and…