Appointments
August 13, 2015
Michael Weiss, the Cowan-Blum Professor of Cancer Research and professor of biochemistry and medicine, was elected to the national Board of Trustees of the Summer Science Program and to the national Board of Trustees of the Presidential Scholars Foundation. The National Science Foundation began…
August 10, 2015
Results of the 2015 Staff Advisory Council elections are in. The two-year terms for newly elected representatives begin in September 2015. The following university staff members have either been elected or reelected:
University Administration
Exempt: Timothy Eppich Richard Kramer Jing Li James…
July 31, 2015
Jill Korbin, the Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor, director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as president-elect (2015-2017) and president (2017-2019) of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Korbin’s research focuses…
July 31, 2015
Nora L. Nock, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, was appointed to serve as a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention Study Section for Center for Scientific Review for the term beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30,…
July 31, 2015
Case Western Reserve University Director of Athletics Amy Backus recently announced the hiring of Danny Song as the Head Coach of the Spartans’ Wrestling team. "The wrestling program at CWRU has a long and storied history of success. I am thrilled to announce that Danny Song will be our next head…
July 31, 2015
Deputy Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Lynn Singer assumed presidency of the Developmental Neurotoxicology Society (DNTS) on June 2, at the annual meeting in Montreal. The meeting was held jointly with the International Neurotoxicology Association. DNTS is focused on studies of the…
July 31, 2015
Ronald Hickman, associate professor of nursing at Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a national honor awarded for his contributions to the profession. No one was as surprised as the young…
July 28, 2015
After spending nearly two decades in Florida—a state where temperatures average in the mid-70s in winter—Bradford Crews knows Cleveland’s cold will require an adjustment. But so much about Case Western Reserve appealed to Crews that he quickly warmed to the idea of moving here to lead the…
June 26, 2015
Last week, Case Western Reserve University announced the election of two new members to its Board of Trustees, one a renowned arts curator and philanthropist, and the other a prominent antitrust litigator. Toby Devan Lewis, a 1956 graduate of the Flora Stone Mather College for Women, and Milton A.…
June 25, 2015
Emily Pentzer, an assistant professor of chemistry, was named associate editor of the journal Polymer Chemistry. She will start in the new role July 1. The journal is peer-reviewed and publishes advances in polymer chemistry, encompassing all aspects of synthetic and biological macromolecules, and…