Appointments

Case Western Reserve Trustee Chair Chuck Fowler announced that the board elected Ellen Stirn Mavec and Don Richards as university trustees at its meeting earlier this month. “Ellen and Don each have long ties to Case Western Reserve and strong records of leadership in the community,” Fowler said…

Naomi Sigg will join the Case Western Reserve community as the new director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. She joins the office from Washington University in St. Louis, where she worked as the assistant director of student involvement and leadership. Sigg was selected for the role based…

Richard Sigg has been appointed the director of recruitment and enrollment at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. He will begin his new position Oct. 28. He joins the program from the George Warren Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, where he…

Case Western Reserve University has appointed Robert F. Kirsch chairman of the biomedical engineering department and Kenneth A. Loparo chairman of the electrical engineering and computer science department. Kirsch and Loparo are prolific researchers, proven leaders among their peers and…

Longtime Case Western Reserve University athletics administrator Patrick Kennedy will serve as the university’s interim director of athletics and chair of physical education, effective Oct. 16. Kennedy, the department’s associate athletic director since 2000, assumes the position vacated after…

Nabil F. Bissada, professor and chair of the Department of Periodontics, was appointed editor-in-chief of The Journal of Dentistry during the “International Conference on Dental and Oral Health,” which was held Aug. 19-21 in Las Vegas. The Journal of Dentistry is a leading…

Ralph P. Harvey, associate professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences, has been named a fellow of the Geological Society of America, in recognition of distinguished contributions to the geosciences. Harvey, who has been on the faculty since 1998, was nominated by an early mentor…

The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers appointed Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, associate editor for the soon-to-be-launched Journal on Medical Imaging. The Journal on Medical Imaging will publish high-quality peer-reviewed papers on fundamental…

The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) elected Jack Kleinhenz, an adjunct professor of economics, to serve as its president for the 2013-2014 term. Kleinhenz is principal and chief economist of Kleinhenz and Associates, a Cleveland-based registered investment advisory firm that…

The following staff members have been elected to the university’s Staff Advisory Council (SAC) for a two-year term beginning Sept. 16: School of Dental Medicine Laura Huffman and Heidi McKee Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Diane Fox and Rebecca Orenstein Frances…