Appointments

Law professor Juscelino F. Colares began a one-year appointment, through April 30, 2014, as an arbitrator for North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) trade disputes. Colares joins a roster of U.S. arbitrators handling trade cases. The United States Trade Representative (USTR)…

Alexis Abramson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was appointed faculty director of the Great Lakes Energy Institute. Abramson has been with the Case School of Engineering since 2003, where she has focused her research on novel techniques for thermal characterization of…

Atwood Gaines, professor of anthropology, bioethics, nursing and psychiatry, has been selected to edit two new medical anthropology book series from Springer. The first is a series titled Cultural Studies of Science and Medicine, and the second is titled Millennial Medical Anthropology. The latter…

Melissa Knothe Tate, professor of biomedical and mechanical and aerospace engineering, was elected as a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, an honor lauding the top 3 percent of the profession. Knothe Tate was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and…

Gary Hunter, assistant professor of marketing and policy studies, was selected by the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) Academic Council to serve as the 2014 Winter AMA Marketing Educators’ Conference co-chair and Proceedings co-editor. The conference is among the world’s largest for marketing…

Accountancy Professor Larry Parker was selected to serve on the national nominations committee of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the global organization representing 8,000 academic members throughout the world. The committee discharged its duties in November and the competitive slate…

J. B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, has been appointed treasurer and member of the executive committee of the board of The Joint Commission (TJC), where he has served as a commissioner for the last eight years. The Joint Commission (formerly…

The American Society of Clinical Oncology recently announced the appointment of Neal J. Meropol to its 18-member board of directors. The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is the world’s leading professional organization representing physicians who care for people with cancer. Meropol is…

Tim Webster, assistant professor of law, was elected to term membership on the Council on Foreign Affairs. In addition, Webster, who joined the faculty in July, was awarded a Taiwan Fellowship by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China and named a visiting scholar at National Taiwan…

Inspiring entrepreneurship as a viable career path will take a major step forward with the appointment of Bob Sopko as director of the university’s Blackstone LaunchPad (BLP)—a program for helping students turn their ideas into thriving businesses. “College is a time of discovery of the…