Awards

Last weekend’s Blackstone Launchpad Startup Weekend saw several student teams compete. The top three student teams were: First Place: Moda Trendenza - A fashion shopping, wardrobe coordination service. The team members were Global MBA student Aditi Murarka, senior mathematics and economics major…

University Counseling Services (UCS) at Case Western Reserve University received a $20,000 grant from the American Psychological Association(APA) to advance APA-accredited internship programs for training professional psychologists. The APA Grants for Internship Programs is a three-year initiative…

Christine Olson, assistant director of special projects for the School of Medicine Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative, is the recipient of the 2013-2014 Joan Harris Staff Development Award. The School of Medicine annually awards this honor to a non-faculty employee who demonstrates…

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded a R21 grant from the National Cancer Institute to study predicting aggressive head and neck cancers from digital pathology. His project is titled…

Robert Brown, Distinguished University Professor and Institute Professor in the Department of Physics, was named an American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Fellow in the organization’s first cohort of Fellows. For the first time in its 85-year history, the AAPT has inaugurated a Fellowship…

Relationships are a pillar of Kurt Stange’s personal and professional philosophy. He cultivates them in his practice of medicine, when working with fellow faculty across the university, and advocates for their critical role in the health of individuals and communities. That personal, collaborative…

As a clinical child psychologist, Sandra Russ recognized a connection between creativity and pretend play. That link prompted questions: How is pretend play related to creativity? Could creativity be increased through pretend play experiences? Digging for answers led Russ to develop “The Affect in…

Barbara Daly is more than a nurse educator; she’s a nurse philosopher. Her life’s work has focused on remedying the moral and ethical issues doctors and nurses face in treating the sickest of the hospital’s sick—the critically, chronically ill and cancer patients. “Their diagnoses and…

Former Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Dean Frederick Robbins greatly influenced James W. Kazura—an up-and-coming medical house officer in the 1970s—to pursue global health as a career. At the time, Kazura was surrounded by Robbins and other physicians and scientists devoted to…

Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, awarded Shriya Srinivasan a $2000 scholarship for the 2014-2015 year. Tau Beta Pi Scholarships are awarded to junior members on a competitive basis of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering…