Awards

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Walter Boron, the David N. and Inez Myers/Antonio Scarpa Professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Aarhus University in Denmark. Boron's research interest is acid-base homeostasis. He and his colleagues were the first to…

The Delta Sigma Phi colony at Case Western Reserve University was founded in the spring of 2013. Since then, the chapter has significantly grown in membership, bringing in 40 new members since the colonization began. The now Iota Iota Chapter of Delta Sigma Phi was approved for colonization by the…

Throughout his career, radiology professor Mark Griswold, PhD, has earned accolades for research and innovations in the field of imaging. Among many other breakthroughs, Griswold has contributed toward developing a robotically guided heart catheter and magnetic resonance fingerprinting—a technology…