Awards

Mahdi Orooji, postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering was awarded a two-year Department of Defense postdoctoral fellowship for his project titled "Fusing MRI and Mechanical Imaging for Improved P...

Beta Alpha Psi selected Mark Taylor, the Andrew D. Braden Professor of Accounting and Auditing and chair of the accountancy department, to receive the 2015 Business Information Professional of the Year award in the category of education. Beta Alpha Psi is the international honor organization for fin...

ACES+, the continuation of Academic Careers in Engineering & Sciences program, announced the recipients of the 2015 ADVANCE Opportunity Awards. Ten proposals representing academic disciplines ranging from psychological science to chemistry to theater were awarded a total of $34,309.60. "We're thril...

Stuart Rowan, the Kent Hale Smith Professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, received the 2015 Mark Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Polymer Division. The namesake of the award, Herman Mark, is considered the father of polymer science in the U.S. Th...

Mohsen Seifi, a doctoral researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was selected as one of the two 2015 Henry DeWitt Smith Scholar by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). He was recognized at TMS 2015—the 144th annual Meeting & Exhibition in Orlando—where he offi...

Mandy Smith, a fourth-year doctoral student in musicology at Case Western Reserve University, kept the beat all the way to winning the 2015 David Sanjek Memorial Graduate Student Prize at the U.S. branch national meeting for the International Association of the Study of Popular Music in Louisville, ...

The Distributed Little Red Hen Lab, co-directed by Mark Turner, Institute Professor and professor of cognitive science, has won a Google Summer of Code 2015 grant to fund student coders working in the Red Hen Lab on computational and statistical tools for the study of multimodal communication. The ...

Bry Atchison, a sophomore double majoring in dance and English with minors in childhood studies and pre-law, won the title of Miss Greater Cleveland 2015 in February. Atchinson competed in interview, swimsuit, talent and evening gown competitions, winning the evening gown preliminary award and the ...

Jessica Green, assistant professor of political science, recently won an award for the best book in environmental politics from the International Studies Association (ISA). ISA awarded Green the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for her book, Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in...

Heather Rice, a third year doctoral student, Legacy Fellow and Jonas IV Nurse Leaders Scholar at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, recently received a 2015 Northeast Ohio Top 25 under 35 Movers & Shakers Award from the Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club. The Cleveland Professional 20/30 Cl...