Awards

Erin Lamb, the Carl F. Asseff MD, MBA, JD, Designated Professor in Medical Humanities in the Department of Bioethics at the School of Medicine, recently received the Lifetime Achievement & Service Award from the Health Humanities Consortium. This recognition honors an individual who has made…

Mai Rashwan, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, received a Poster Presentation Award from the NASA Glenn Research Center during the Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop. Rashwan, whose poster title was “Effective Photothermal Energy Conversion Mechanisms of Nanoparticle-Loaded…

Every year, ASTM International selects four graduate students from the United States and Canada to receive a $10,000 scholarship, recognizing their contributions to fields where technical standards are essential. Vishnu Ramasamy, a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and…

Inamori Ethics Prize ceremony canceled; symposium still to take place Sept. 19 Case Western Reserve University’s Inamori Ethics Prize ceremony honoring renowned physician, immunologist, and infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has been canceled, as Dr. Fauci recovers at home from West…

Fey Parrill Fey Parrill, professor and chair of the Department of Cognitive Science at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently won the Rosalind Franklin Society (RFS) Awards in Science for her paper “Revisioning Cognitive Science Through Holistic Science, Biophilia, and Indigenous Ways of…

CWRUbotix, Case Western Reserve University’s robotics team, competed in the 22nd annual MATE ROV World Championship, hosted in Kingsport, Tennessee, in June. In this competition, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are deployed underwater to perform various tasks related to ocean observation and…

In basketball, to shoot the perfect free throw, train your eye on the rim. In baseball, for the perfect pitch, look at the catcher's mitt. So says the "quiet eye" technique, which calls on a period of extended visual attention to improve coordination and performance. A research-backed approach…

Of the 4.7 million nurses in the United States, only 3,000 hold the distinction of membership in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), an organization representing the field’s most accomplished leaders in policy, research, administration, practice, and academia. More selective still is the…

Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, can add another prestigious title to his distinguished career. The National Association of Social Workers Foundation (NASWF) has named Voisin a Social Work Pioneer,…

Reda Riffi, a first-generation student at Case Western Reserve University, was selected to participate in the BioMed Amgen Scholars Program at Yale University this summer. Riffi is majoring in neuroscience and conducts research at CWRU in the Xiong Lab. The BioMed Amgen Scholars Program is a…