Awards

Jon Foisotte, a junior Japanese and international studies major, took the second place prize in the University Division of the 16th annual Japan America Society of Central Ohio Japanese Speech Contest. At the contest, which was held March 7 at the Dublin (Ohio) Recreation Center, Foisotte conveyed ...

Answenergy, first place winner of the sixth annual Saint Gobain Student Design Competition held on April 1, started off the group presentations with a thoughtful question: “Take out your phones. Are you happy with your battery?” In response, the audience took out their phones, looked at their batte...

In this busy season for entrepreneurial awards and announcements of innovation grants, Punkaj Ahuja and Patrick Leimkuehler, and their venture Apollo Medical Devices, have an especially full calendar. Over the April 17 weekend, Apollo was the runner-up in Notre Dame University’s prestigious McClosk...

Michael Goldberg, a visiting assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, will start a Fulbright fellowship in Namibia on May 8. As a Fulbright Senior Specialist, Goldberg will work at Polytechnic of Namibia, helping to develop the Southern African count...

Earlier this month, eight members of the Case Western Reserve University Baja Team packed up their trailer and drove south to Auburn, Ala., to compete in an international competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Every year since 2001, students on the Baja Team have designed, manufact...

The Princeton Review recently named Case Western Reserve University as one of the 353 most environmentally responsible colleges of 2015 in its sixth annual "Guide to Green Colleges." Case Western Reserve’s Office for Sustainability reported more than 25 criteria on sustainability-related policies, p...

Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) is pleased to announce the travel funding award recipients for 2014-2015. The following students presented a poster or paper about their research or creative endeavors at a conference: Diana Acosta (biomedical engineering) presente...

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, and Lyndsay Harris, professor of medicine-hematology/oncology, were awarded a one-year, $50,000 grant titled, "Radiogenomic approach for predicting pathologic complete response in HER2+ breast cancers" as part of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Ce...

The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University has selected Martha C. Nussbaum, who The New York Times once described as “the most prominent female philosopher in America,” for the 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize. Case Western Reserve has awarded the Inamori...

Foot-powered mobile phone charger for developing countries takes first place More than $20,000 was at stake—funding that could give a promising student business idea a real boost. Sixteen student teams entered the Spartan Challenge, Case Western Reserve University’s annual business start-up conte...