Awards

The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, in collaboration with the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, awarded Case Western Reserve University with a bronze 2014 Commuter Choice Award. Commuter Choice Awards are a way to recognize companies and organizations that promote healthy, ...

Krzysztof Palczewski, the John H. Hord Professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, was awarded the 2014 Maurice Saltzman Award by the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation. The award was established in 1983 to honor Maurice Saltzman who, during more than 30 years of involvement with human ser...

The Office of First-Year Experience and Family Programs (FYEFP) announced the winners of its annual orientation awards, presented to orientation leaders who go above and beyond their roles and responsibilities to truly understand, address and advocate for new students and their families. These award...

School of Medicine Dean Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics Chair Walter Boron, MD, PhD, have won election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM), one of the nation’s most prestigious societies for health and medicine. “We congratulate and app...

Grant will be used to seek new path to drug discovery by automating identification of all effects for many drugs on the market For the second consecutive year, a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has landed one of the much-coveted Director’s New Innovator Awards from th...

Distinguished University Professor Richard Boyatzis of Case Western Reserve University has again emerged as one of the 10 most influential international thinkers in a recently released 2014 HR Magazine survey of more than 11,000 human resources directors worldwide. Boyatzis, a New York Times bestse...

A team from Case Western Reserve University won first prize in the Medical Category of the 2014 NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Design Contest. The team, led by Yunus Alapan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student and PhD candidate in the Case School of Engineering Biomanufactur...

The Ohio Dental Association Foundation (ODAF) awarded scholarships to six Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine students. “These students have demonstrated a commitment to academic excellence and represent the future of the profession of dentistry,” said Billie Sue Kyger, chair ...

The Leonard Gelfand STEM Center at Case Western Reserve University was recognized with the U.S. President's Volunteer Service Award for more than 2,500 volunteer hours contributed to the community through the center's Environmental Heroes program. Through the program, which focuses on science field...

Umut Gurkan, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was named to MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35—Turkey list. The magazine has compiled the list of scientists and innovators whose work is transforming the world’s technology for more than a decade. Gurkan accepted t...