Appointments

School of Medicine professor Mukesh K. Jain has been elected to serve as vice president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. In the subsequent two years he will serve as president elect and ultimately president for one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious physician-scientist s...

A Case Western Reserve University professor this month joined the federal office charged with advising the nation’s president on economic policy. Susan Helper will serve for a year as a senior economist on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers. A member of the Weatherhead School of Manageme...

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Beamer-Schneider Professor in Ethics and associate professor of philosophy, has been selected as an expert reviewer on Working Group III's contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report. This report will serve as an update the 2007 r...

School of Law Dean Lawrence Mitchell recently was appointed to the Advisory Committee of the English Language Edition of the Peking University Law Journal. The law school reached an agreement earlier this year with Peking University Law School to provide for faculty and student exchanges, visiting ...

Juscelino F. Colares, professor of law and associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, was recently reappointed reviewer at Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review. The journal provides a platform for review and discussion, both in Europe and internationally, of the legal an...

Suzanne Rivera, associate vice president for research, recently was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the National Council of University Research Administrators beginning Jan. 1, 2013. Rivera, a member of the 7,000-member non-profit higher-education association since 2002, has served i...

LaShanda Korley, the Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Case School of Engineering, is one of 78 young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s 18th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The symposium will be held Sept. 13-15 at the General Motor...

Case Western Reserve University President Barbara R. Snyder has been elected vice chair of the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF), the nation’s oldest organization dedicated to addressing the country’s most pressing academic and workforce challenges. “I am honored to have this opportunity to wo...

The Academy of Nursing Education’s National League for Nursing has selected Mary Quinn Griffin to be a member of its sixth group of fellows. Quinn Griffin, an associate professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, was selected for her evidence of enduring and substantial contributions t...

Ruby L. Gibbons, a graduate student in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, recently was elected regional director of an Ohio chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Gibbons was elected to a two-year term as regional director of region eight, which includes Ashland, Coshocto...