Awards

Recently the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics’ Bright Spots in Hispanic Education National Online Catalog was announced. Esperanza Inc. will be included in the catalog, which features more than 230 programs that invest in key education priorities for Hispanics. Case We...

Case Western Reserve University’s Spartan Triathlon Club participated in its inaugural race Sunday, Sept. 13, at Portage Lakes, just outside of Akron. A triathlon combines swimming, biking and running. Team members participated in the Olympic distance (47 miles) and the sprint distance (just more t...

Two undergraduate students at Case Western Reserve University were selected to participate in the 2015 KeyBank and Fisher College of Business Leadership & Creativity Undergraduate Minority Student Symposium at Ohio State University. Keniece Gray and D'metrius Grier will have the opportunity to part...

Gary Landreth, professor of neurosciences and neurology, received a 2015 Research Grant Award from The Alzheimer's Association. Landreth, who also is the director of the Alzheimer Research Laboratory, won a $240,000 Investigator-Initiated Research Grant to fund his research in roles of TREM2 in Alz...

Launch CWRU Weekend 2015 wrapped up Sunday, Sept. 6. At the beginning of the event, 24 individuals pitched their ideas, with 16 teams forming to begin the 48-hour competition. More than 30 community members supported idea research and team project development, acting as mentors, advisers, and judge...

Kristian Baker, associate professor in Center for RNA Molecular Biology at the School of Medicine, recently received the Crowning Achievement Award for Professional Achievement from her alma mater, the University of Regina. The award seeks to recognize alumni of the university who have achieved exc...

Case Western Reserve is dedicated to reducing its environmental footprint and, to guide this process, the university drafted a Climate Action Plan in May 2011 and set a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Annually, CWRU's Office for Sustainability submits data through the Association for the Advance...

Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black, both associate professors of sociology, received the Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award of the Association for Humanist Sociology for the book they co-authored, On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy. The awards committee unanimously selected th...

Steven Reynolds, a junior double majoring in political science and sociology, won the 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Society Writing Internship. Reynolds’ internship began in August and will end in December. During the five-month period, he will write at least six articles for the society’s publication for ne...

When Lauren Anderson found out she won a Department of Defense Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship, she thought she was dreaming. The Case Western Reserve University junior had just woken up from a nap and checked her email when she learned she would have her fi...