Awards

IMPROVment is the Student Leadership Journey Council’s student organization of the month. The improv comedy student group was founded in 2003 to “bring free and hilarious improv comedy to the Case Western Reserve community.” IMPROVment garners more than 100 guests at each show and has earned impres...

Undergraduate student Khalid Al-Dhubaib won second place at the national Global Student Entrepreneur Awards for his company, Triple Analytics. The event was held on Thursday, Nov. 20, in Chicago. The company aims to help health care workers develop plans for patients who need long-term care. His co...

Shanina Knighton, a PhD student in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, placed first in Girl Power Pitch Night—an event geared toward college-aged, female entrepreneurs—on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Knighton’s project is a product aimed to improve hand hygiene for patients. The event was hosted by ...

The Student Leadership Journey Council’s (SLJC) Student Adviser of the Month for October is Skip Begley, assistant director of Residence Life and Services. In this role, he works with the Second Year Experience, oversees graduate staff selection and training, and provides support for students. As a...

Mongoose Metrics LLC, a Northeast Ohio telecommunications marketing research company in Independence, has captured the top rank among 2014 Weatherhead 100, the prestigious annual list compiled by Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. The call-tracking company, establis...

In recognition of the Case Western Reserve community’s ongoing commitment to service, the university was named to the 2014 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. This is the seventh year Case Western Reserve has made the honor roll, but only the second the univer...

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-driven and donor-centered charity dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, awarded a one-year, $50,000 grant to Case Western Reserve University. This grant is one of 40 infrastructure grants awarded as part of the foundation’s fall grant cy...

Mohsen Seifi, doctoral researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded one of three 2014 American Society for Testing and Materials International Graduate Scholarships. He was recognized at the ASTM Fall Meeting in New Orleans, where he officially accepted the awa...

For the second consecutive year, Weatherhead School of Management graduate students were awarded first place in the National Society of Hispanic MBA (NSHMBA) case competition. The winning team was composed of Naiwen Zhang (second-year finance student) year, Mark Sawaya (first-year MBA student), Vic...

Case Western Reserve University malaria specialist Brian T. Grimberg is among Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014, who were honored earlier this week in Washington, D.C. Grimberg, of the Center for Global Health and Diseases at the School of Medicine, received the honor fo...