Awards

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and a member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, was awarded U.S. patent 8,774,479, titled “System and method for automated segmentation, characterization and classification of possibly malignant lesions and stratification of malignant tumor...

The Society of Pediatric Psychology (Division 54) chose Olena Zyga, a senior studying pediatric psychology, as an outstanding undergraduate student. Zyga has contributed to research on many topics, including pretend play and developmental disorders, neuroimaging and adolescent obesity and the develo...

Esperanza Inc. honored four Case Western Reserve University scholarship winners at the Fiesta of Hope luncheon on June 27. Santiago Chabrier, an engineering major, Isaac Martinez, a nursing major, Alberto Rodriguez, a music education major, and Elizabeth Reyes, a nursing major, were among the 103 sc...

The team of Alyssa Dechow, Del Guile and Garret Bowman, from the School of Law, won the Scribes 2014 Brief Award for their brief from the J. Braxton Craven Jr. Memorial Moot-Court Competition. The winners were invited to attend and be recognized at the Scribes Annual Meeting during the American Bar...

Pallavi Tiwari, research assistant professor, and Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, were awarded a Phase II Coulter award on their project "NeuroRadVisionTM: Image based risk assessment for presence of recurrent tumor or radiation effects on MRI" at the Center for Computational ...

Case Western Reserve University awarded Lizzy Benway, a junior nursing major, the fourth Douglas W. Nock Endowment Scholarship. The award recognizes and provides financial assistance to outstanding undergraduate students or admitted high school graduates who have advanced the mission of the Lesbian,...

Israel Hill, a sophomore studying computer science, and Evan Harris, a sophomore studying finance, were each awarded a fully funded three-week study program in China by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. While in China, the students will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the Man...

The Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences—on behalf of Case Western Reserve University—on May 9 accepted the inaugural “Partnership Award” from the Court of Common Pleas, Juvenile Division at its annual Pro...

Doctoral students Devin Burke, from the music department, and Sarah Koopman-Gonzalez, from the anthropology department, received the Richard A. Zdanis Fellowships of $5,000 to complete their dissertations. Burke, who will graduate in December with a degree in historical musicology, will use his awa...

Jaesung Lee, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), won the Best Student Paper Competition at the 2014 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IEEE IFCS 2014), for presenting his paper, “Atomically-Thin MoS2 Resonators for Pressure Sensing.” Phil...