Appointments

Robert L. Greene, professor of psychology, was recently named the new editor of the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. The journal covers a broad spectrum of research, including experimental research on human learning, memory,…

Music Department Chair Mary E. Davis will become dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City in July. A professor of musicology at Case Western Reserve University since 1998, Davis has long centered much of her scholarship on the…

Liming Dai, Kent Hale Smith Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, was recently elected to The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows Class of 2012. Dai’s peers nominated him because of his pioneering achievements and outstanding contributions…

The Association for Computing Machinery recently named Zehra Meral Özsoyoğlu one of its 2011 ACM Fellows. Özsoyoğlu, the Andrew R. Jennings Professor of Computing, was recognized for her contributions to database management systems. Forty-six ACM members from the world’s leading universities,…

After an international search, the Department of Pharmacology announced Phoebe L. Stewart, PhD, as director of the Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology (CCMSB), effective Nov. 1. Stewart comes to Case Western Reserve University after working as a professor of molecular physiology…

President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that Biomedical Engineering Department Chair Jeffrey L. Duerk, PhD, will become the next dean of the Case School of Engineering, effective Jan. 1. An alumnus of the school, he has been a member of the university faculty since 1988 and has held leadership…

President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that she has appointed Jennifer Cimperman as her chief of staff. Cimperman comes to Case Western Reserve after five years with The Cleveland Foundation, where she managed communications and media relations for programs ranging from The Evergreen…

Provost W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III announced today that he has named Robert H. Miller Case Western Reserve’s vice president for research. Miller, whose ties to the university date back to 1981, has served as vice dean for research at the School of Medicine since 2007. “Bob Miller is a remarkable…

Michael G. Knight, a fourth-year medical student at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, has been elected the Student National Medical Association president, while School of Medicine student Demetra Gibson was elected national secretary. As president, Knight will serve as the lead…

Michael Scharf, John Deaver Drinko – Baker & Hostetler Professor of Law and director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, has been appointed president of the International Criminal Law Network. The ICLN is a prestigious organization of international criminal law experts and…