Awards

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

“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…

In the corner of his office, Paul Barnhart keeps a 33-year-old photo of himself when he was a Case Western Reserve University undergrad to remind him to think what it was like to be a student—and to show students he was once like them. “As a college senior, I was a different person in many ways,”…

A biology instructor who believes books and lectures aren’t enough has won a 2015 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Rebecca Benard, who came to Case Western Reserve University in 2009, distinguished herself by helping students develop skills and hold themselves to…

Among the thick white binders that line a bottom shelf in Colin Drummond’s office is one filled with current events—news articles the biomedical engineering professor uses to pepper his courses with context to draw real life from theory. There’s The Wall Street Journal feature on how a promising…