Awards

Punkaj Ahuja and Patrick Leimkuehler, and their venture, Apollo Medical Devices, recently took home two first place awards at innovation competitions. In late June, the team took home first place at Techweek Chicago tech conference and festival, receiving $50,000 in cash plus generous ancillary awa...

To recognize their exemplary commitment to Case Western Reserve University, three staff members—Christopher Bond, Shannon Swiatkowski and Tracy J. Wilson-Holden—received this year’s President’s Award for Distinguished Service, and Kathleen Dowdell received the Robin Kramer Staff Advisory Council Vol...

P. Hunter Peckham, the Donnell Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at Case Western Reserve University, was recently recognized by the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished career in research on the use of functional ...

Rachel McNellis, a PhD student in the Department of Music, received a Medieval Academy of America/CARA Summer Scholarship to study Medieval Latin at The MARCO Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Tennessee. This is the first year that the Academy of American has offer...

The National Psoriasis Foundation awarded Nicole Ward and Thomas McCormick, associate professors of dermatology, a one-year, $75,000 Discovery Grant. Ward and McCormick will study if omega-3 fatty acids, such as those found in fish oil, could improve psoriasis symptoms. In order to determine the po...

The Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program awarded Kath Bogie, adjunct assistant professor of orthopaedics, a $561,850 grant. Bogie, who is a principal investigator with the Advanced Platform Technology Center of Excellence at the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans A...

As a high school student, Anna Sklenar initially studied Spanish and Chinese. But after hearing about the study-abroad scholarships available to students learning “critical languages,” or those that are less commonly taught, she made the change to Russian—a culture toward which she felt an unexplain...

Lighthouse Guild awarded its 2015 Bressler Prize to Krzysztof Palczewski, the John H. Hord Professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology. Lighthouse Guild, a nonprofit vision and health care organization, gives the award to a researcher who has made remarkable contributions to vision care di...

American Friends of The Hebrew University (AFHU) announced that Beno Michel, clinical professor of pathology, will receive with an honorary fellowship from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on June 1. Michel will be recognized during an official ceremony at the university’s 78th International Board...

The Case Western Reserve University Baja Team competed in its second competition of the season earlier this month in Mechanicsville, Md., earning its best performance since the team started in 2001. In the final event of the competition, which was a four-hour endurance race against more than 100 te...