Awards

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…