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Professor Diana Bilimoria’s “Women in STEM Careers” book named publication of the year
Diana Bilimoria’s book Women in STEM Careers: International Perspectives on Increasing Workforce Participation, Advancement and Leadership was awarded the Commonwealth Businesswomen's Publication of the Year Award for 2015. Bilimoria is the KeyBank Professor and chair and professor of…
CWRU ranks among nation’s top institutions for percentage of undergraduates who study abroad
Student participation has more than doubled since 2010-11 school year For the first time in its history, Case Western Reserve ranks among the nation’s top 40 doctorate-granting universities in the percentage of its undergraduates studying abroad, according to a new report. With nearly 45 percent…
Jackson T. Wright Jr. honored for reducing cardiovascular disease among African-Americans
Earns American Heart Association’s prestigious 2015 Clinical Research Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cardiovascular Science Jackson T. Wright Jr. When Jackson T. Wright Jr. began practicing medicine in the 1980’s, physicians knew that the risks of high blood pressure were greater in…
Adjunct faculty member, alumna helps local organizations secure nearly $9 million in grants in one year
Over the past year, Jennifer Madden (CWR ’93; MNO ’95; GRS ’15, management), adjunct professor in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, successfully wrote more than $8.7 million in funded grants for local nonprofit organizations in Cleveland and Youngstown.…
Copenhagen Business School to award Weatherhead School’s Kalle Lyytinen with honorary doctorate
The Copenhagen Business School will award Kalle Lyytinen, chair and professor of design and innovation, an honorary doctorate in March 2016. Lyytinen’s research in information technology helps define how digital innovations shape organizations. This research also helps organizations know how to…
Model UN members take home honors from National Collegiate Security Conference
The Case Western Reserve University’s Model United Nations Team recently competed at the National Collegiate Security Conference hosted by Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. This competitive conference serves as a forum for detailed debate on the world’s most serious crises. The following…
CWRU team wins first prize—and $150,000—in health care technology competition
A Case Western Reserve University team won first prize and $150,000 in the Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare for their project, Hemechip. Yunus Alapan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student, led the team. The Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare is a…
Perseverance pays off: Two students win SMART Scholarships
Michelle Leslie and Shannon Smith both had applied for the Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarships before. Leslie, a PhD candidate studying macromolecular science and engineering, applied twice as an undergraduate. Smith, a senior studying…
Biomedical engineering researchers awarded patent on multimodal data fusion
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, and Satish Viswanath, a research assistant, have been awarded U.S. patent 9,159,128. Their patent is titled “Enhanced multi-protocol analysis via intelligent…
Seniors inducted into Weatherhead School’s Wolstein Society
The Weatherhead School of Management recently inducted the 10th class of the Wolstein Society. The Wolstein Society recognizes outstanding undergraduate students in their senior year who represent the spirit of enterprise as demonstrated by leadership, scholarship, community service and…