Awards

A Case Western Reserve University researcher has won a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to create tiny sensors capable of detecting insecticides in Lake Erie or determining subtypes of human cancers. Nicole Steinmetz, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and Mt. Sinai Scholar,...

Only university awarded in national competition Brian Grimberg, lead researcher and assistant professor of international health While the industrialized world has been free of malaria for 50 years, the disease remains a major humanitarian issue that affects the health and quality of life of impove...

A simple yet powerful maxim guides the extraordinary philanthropy of the Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust: helping people and organizations help themselves. That principle emanates from the lives of the Trust’s namesake, Kent Hale Smith (CIT ’17), and his wife, Thelma. And it continues today through ...

Anthony Price, a high school student who works in Professor Rigoberto Advincula’s research lab, recently was awarded a 2015 Princeton Prize in Race Relations. This prestigious award carries a $1,000 prize for particularly noteworthy work and included an all-expense paid trip to Princeton University ...

Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity and Professor of English Marilyn Mobley recently was selected for a Judson Smart Living Award in Education. Mobley was honored at the awards recognition luncheon Thursday, May 14. For the 10th year, Judson Smart Living Awards have honor...

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, and his team were awarded a $387,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop image-based methods to predict aggression in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a precursor of breast cancer. Madabhushi is the director of the Center for Co...

Jason N. Rucker was named this year's scholarship recipient of the Ohio Collegiate Plate Program, sponsored by The Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University. The CWRU Ohio License Plate Scholarship is awarded to a student who demonstrates a strong commitment to classmates and the univers...

As approximately 2,000 students receive their bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at 2015 commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 17, four esteemed professionals from fields such as the military, medicine and entertainment also will be recognized with honorary degrees. Students and families at...

As a young man, Robert C. Elston didn’t have the means to follow his heart’s desire to buy a farm in England, so he pursued a fellowship in the United States instead. That twist of fate led him to become a leading biostatistician and epidemiologist rather than a terrific farmer. As a researcher, El...

“Great mentors don’t just belong to people who do great things,” wrote a Case Western Reserve University alum and former student of Gillian Weiss. “They are also there for the people who stumble across the finish line.” With that resounding endorsement, her former student nominated the associate pr...