Awards

Janet Gbur, doctoral candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded the Ruby Leigh Orgain Founders Grant in the amount of $9,000 from the Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation. Nine grants are awarded annually to members pursuing post-baccalaureate education with each grant ...

The School of Medicine awarded Robert Bucklew, outreach coordinator for the Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), with the 2014-2015 Joan Harris Staff Development Award. The School of Medicine annually awards this honor to a non-faculty employee who d...

Just a month after earning sixth place in the 2013 National Senior Games archery competition in Cleveland, Sam Arlia was in a motorcycle accident that left him with extensive injuries to his left hand and shoulder. (He, thankfully, was wearing a helmet, which protected him from more serious injuries...

Two years ago, as Case Western Reserve University Professor Harsh Mathur finished his lecture on superconductivity to his introductory physics class, he suggested that maybe one of the students in the audience would solve the 100-year-old challenge of superconducting at room temperature. Sylvester ...

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has designated Case Western Reserve University’s Tinkham Veale University Center with a LEED Gold certification, an endorsement of the building’s energy and environmentally sensitive design and construction. LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Desig...

What is the result when you combine cutting-edge technology, paradigm-shifting teaching and world-renowned faculty? Starting this week, 16 faculty members at Case Western Reserve University will begin to find out, as they participate in the third annual Active Learning Fellowship. The fellowship is...

The power of ideas paid student entrepreneurs handsomely during the school year. In all, they won more than $200,000 in competitions. Their budding businesses are striving to make flying safer and cheaper, enable the world’s poorest to recharge phones and power lights, help health care workers quic...

Before her junior year even begins, aerospace and mechanical engineering major Diana Illingsworth already has a plan for how she will pay for the final two years of her college career, and it comes with a unique opportunity—a post-graduation job. Thanks to a generous Science, Mathematics and Resear...

Four Case Western Reserve University students received scholarships at Esperanza Inc.’s Fiesta of Hope event in June. Santiago Chabrier, a chemical engineering student; Jessica Trabucco, a biomedical engineering student; and Isaac Martinez and Elizabeth Reyes, both nursing students, were honored wi...

A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine scholar was one of only 30 medical students from across North America selected to participate in the 2015 American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Tutored Research and Education for Kidney Scholars (TREKS) program, an initiative of the society’s Workf...