Awards

Two Case Western Reserve University students won $10,000 scholarships from the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) for their graduate studies. Janet Gbur and Mohsen Seifi, both PhD candidates in materials science and engineering, were two of three students selected for th...

Anant Madabhushi, director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and professor of biomedical engineering, was awarded U.S. patent 9,111,179, titled “High-throughput Biomarker Segmentation Utilizing Hierarchical Normalized Cuts.” The invention relates to a novel algori...

Kalle Lyytinen, professor of design and innovation; Aron Lindberg, PhD candidate at the Weatherhead School of Management; and Nicholas Berente (MGT '04, '09), assistant professor of management information systems at the University of Georgia, recently received the Academy of Management Organizationa...

Recent nursing alumna Carly Koelsch won the eighth annual American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Video Contest, with her video, "Moment of Truth." Koelsch entered the competition’s “Moment of Truth” category—which she named her video—about when she decided to enter the midwifery field. "There ...

Donald Feke (CIT ’76, GRS ’77, chemical engineering) is a triple threat at Case Western Reserve University: an award-winning educator, a patent-producing researcher and an accomplished administrator. His favorite aspect of his multifaceted role—and the reason he came back to Case Western Reserve—is...

Ica Manas-Zloczower has spent her entire professional teaching career at Case Western Reserve University. In her 30 years on campus, she’s become known as a prolific researcher in macromolecular science and engineering, a committed colleague and an influential educator. For her many contributions—b...

Groundbreaking medical research offers Sanford Markowitz the best of two worlds. He thrives on solving tough scientific puzzles that come with medical research in a top-flight academic center. He also finds immense gratification that his work may someday help someone with serious illness such as col...

Laura Martin, a rising fourth-year student in the School of Dental Medicine, won an essay contest for her ability to write about oral health in a way that the layperson can understand. In her essay, titled “Diabetes and Your Smile,” Martin clearly conveyed her message about oral health awareness, e...

Mustafa Unal, a doctoral candidate in the lab of Ozan Akkus, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been selected as a Baxter Young Investigator for his research, titled “Assessment of Bone Quality by Novel Spectroscopic Biomarkers,” in the Instrumental and Analytical Sciences catego...

Tolulope Rosanwo, a student in the School of Medicine, recently was selected to participate in the 2015 Minority Medical Student Award Program (MMSAP). The program is meant to increase interest among minority students in hematology. Over the course of a summer, the students must create a research p...