Awards

Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, who is long known as an authority on historical tuning systems, has been spending his 2013-14 sabbatical in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Near the end of his time in the UK, he was honored by requests to coach two of the top choirs in the world, Ki...

Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and his team were awarded a grant from The V Foundation for Cancer Research for $41,727. Their submission was titled "Use of PET and MR Imaging Biomarkers to Predict Response of Renal Cell Carcinoma to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Therapy...

Peter de Blank, assistant professor of pediatrics, was named one of two winners of the inaugural Francis S. Collins Scholars Program in Neurofibromatosis Clinical and Translational Research, sponsored by the Neurofibromatosis Therapeutic Acceleration Program at Johns Hopkins University. The program...

Anant Madabhushi, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and investigators at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, including Lyndsay Harris, professor of medicine-hematology and oncology, and Hannah Gilmore, assistant professor of pathology, were awarded a one-year Clinica...

Brad Ricca, full-time lecturer in the Department of English, was named the 2014 winner of the Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award for Distinguished Teaching in the SAGES Program. The award was established in 2008 to honor exceptional teaching in the SAGES program at Case Western Reserve University. Ricca ...

The Fellows of the Institute for the Science of Origins (ISO) held a surprise lunch May 29 to honor and recognize the leadership of Glenn Starkman, professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve Universit...

Early Music America, a not-for-profit service organization for the field of historical performance in North America, recently granted a College-Level Development Grant to the Case Western Reserve Baroque Ensembles. The $1,000 grant will help support the CWRU Baroque Ensembles’ Musical and Theatrica...

The Social Justice Institute announced the inaugural faculty, graduate and undergraduate research fellows. The institute established this grant-mining fund for seeding faculty and student research that advances social justice work from humanistic inquiry to action research. These grants were create...

At the April 18 Intersections: SOURCE Symposium and Poster Session, a number of students were honored for their oral and poster presentations. Those awarded were: Humanities Oral Competition 1st: Steven Cramer, “1939 Comes alive: Integrating computer gaming into the history classroom.” Faculty ment...

The English department, SAGES and the Writing Program recently recognized this year’s winners of teaching awards and student writing prizes. Jessica Melton Perry Award for Distinguished Teaching in Disciplinary and Professional Writing Helen Salz, professor of genetics and genome sciences, received ...