Awards

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Case Western Reserve University received a $7,500 Generation Study Abroad Grant from the inaugural Institute of International Education (IIE) to support new scholarships for study abroad in Ireland. The Office of Education Abroad will match this funding, and award at least six scholarships of…

Two Case Western Reserve University students will spend the next year abroad as recipients of Fulbright Scholarships. Michael Bane, a fifth-year PhD candidate in music, is the third Fulbright Scholar from the music department in the last three years; he’ll study French musical history in Paris.…

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…

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…

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…