Appointments

Edwin B. Mayes has joined the Case Western Reserve University community as director of First Year Experience. He will report directly to the vice president for enrollment management. In his new position, Mayes will be responsible for leadership and vision of all new student and parent programs as…

Barbara Juknialis, administrative director of biomedical ethics, and Michael Gilkey, acting executive director of the National Center for Regenerative Medicine, have been elected to the Staff Advisory Council. Juknialis will be vice chair of the council, and Gilkey will be secretary. Their terms in…

Globally, more women than ever took the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) in 2011. Diana Bilimoria, the first KeyBank professor of organizational behavior at Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management, believes this increase in women management students will bring new…

Ruqaiijah Yearby, professor and associate director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently was named chair of the Student Life and Inclusion Subcommittee of the Strategic Planning Committee at the School of Law. Yearby’s term will run until 2014. In addition, she became a member of the Institutional…

Daniel Scherson, the Frank Hovorka Professor of Chemistry and director of the Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences, recently was elected third vice president of The Electrochemical Society. He takes office May 12, during a year in which ECS celebrates its 110th anniversary. Founded…

Christine Somosi has been named director of marketing and communications for the National Center for Regenerative Medicine and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Somosi previously worked in the university’s enrollment management division, where she developed and implemented recruitment marketing…

Ohio Gov. John Kasich reappointed Kenneth L. Kutina, PhD, to a new eight-year term on the Ohio Higher Educational Facility Commission. Kutina serves as a member and secretary of the commission, which issues tax-exempt bonds for private, non-profit colleges, universities and hospitals in Ohio,…

The Residence Hall Association (RHA) general body recently elected its executive board members. Appointees are: Executive president: Mara Gallagher VP of internal development: Katherine Kleinberg VP of residential relations: Ryan Stroud VP of external communications: Jeffrey Sommer VP of…

Jenifer Neils, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History and Classics at Case Western Reserve University, has been elected to a four-year term as chair of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), beginning June 2012. The American School of…

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,…