Awards

George Lee, research assistant professor in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), received a three-year K01 award through the National Institutes of Health Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative. His $245,823 project is titled "Big data convergence of pathology...

Mahdi Orooji, postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, won this year's Linda Arena Endowed Scholarship Award. Orooji was selected for his project, which was titled "Computer Extracted Texture Fe...

Roman Sheremeta, assistant professor of economics, shares the first and second place ranking of Forbes' 2015 list of Top Economic Thinkers of Ukrainian descent. Forbes uses three categories to assess each candidate: citations, number of publications and popular vote. Sheremeta placed first in numbe...

When then-first-year student Brittany Chung responded to an email from the Office of Multicultural Affairs about a leadership opportunity, she had no idea what the position entailed. Now, three years later, she’s being recognized nationally for the impact her work in this role has had on Case Wester...

For the fourth consecutive year, Case Western Reserve University has received national recognition for its diversity and inclusion initiatives and achievements. The university received the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from the national magazine Insight Into Diversity. ...

SAGES and the Case Western Reserve University Writing Programs recognized students who had outstanding achievements in the SAGES Writing Portfolio. This award recognizes some of the best writing from SAGES Portfolios submitted in the academic year 2014-2015. A committee of faculty from across the u...

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) honored David Cooperrider as one of its inaugural group of 100 influential leaders worldwide. Cooperrider is the Fairmount Santrol - David L. Cooperrider Professor in Appreciative Inquiry in the Department of Organizational Behavior ...

Arnold I. Caplan, professor of biology and director of the Skeletal Research Center at Case Western Reserve University, received the MSC Lifetime Achievement Award in August. He was honored at the National Center for Regenerative Medicine’s Mesenchymal Stem Cell conference. Caplan is the founding d...

Case Western Reserve University boasts some of the world’s brightest young minds. Their influence is not limited to the lab, office or classroom; often, it’s far-reaching—impacting the surrounding community and sometimes even society as a whole. Four such catalysts—current faculty, staff and studen...

Symone Alexander more or less stumbled into her career path. It took literally getting lost in the engineering building as an undergraduate at Howard University in order for her to find her true passion. “I knew nothing about engineering until undergrad,” Alexander, who started college as a chemist...