Awards

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

SAGES and the CWRU Writing Programs recognize announced the students with outstanding achievements in the SAGES Writing Portfolio. This award recognizes some of the best writing from those SAGES Portfolios submitted in the academic year 2013-2014. A committee of faculty from across the university…

Jacob Antunes, a biomedical engineering undergraduate student, was awarded the "Reviewer's Choice Award" from the Biomedical Engineering Society conference for his poster, titled "Identifying PET/MRI Parameters for Early Treatment Response in Renal Cell Carcinoma." Co-authors on the poster include…

Prateek Prasanna, a biomedical engineering PhD student, was named runner up for the young scientist award at Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), a leading medical imaging conference, for his oral presentation, titled "Co-occurrence of Local Anisotropic Gradient…