Awards

Case Western Reserve University held the third annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition Feb. 16. Developed by the University of Queensland and now held at over 900 institutions across more than 85 countries, 3MT celebrates the exciting research conducted by grad students around the world. This c...

The nominees for the 2024 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2024 J. Bruce Jackson, MD, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring were recently announced. Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Established in honor of Carl Wittke in 1...

Fangfang Wang, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Pharmacology, was recently awarded an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship. Over three years, Wang will study 53BP1 phase separation in genome stability and cancer. Wang is mentored by Youwei Zhang, professor in the Department ...

Case Western Reserve University’s network of libraries has earned the 2024 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) award from Insight into Diversity magazine—recognizing efforts at Kelvin Smith Library, The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library, Lillian and Milford Harris Library, Cleveland Healt...

Erin Ogden, a project manager at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN), was honored with the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year Award for 2024 by the Ohio Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Since 2022, Ogden has been an integral part of the PRCHN, where she works on t...

Angela Clark-Taylor, executive director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, recently received the Mentorship Award from the National Women's Studies Association Women's Centers Committee. This award honors the critically important role that mentors play within women’s and gender equity cent...

JungA "Alexa" Woo, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was awarded the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award by the Society for Neuroscience in November. The award recognizes her contribution to the advancement of wo...

Jeesoo Jeon, a doctoral candidate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was recently honored for her abstract at the Global Flourishing Conference. Scoring among the top 10 submissions, her abstract was titled “Household Challenges and Child flourishing: Moderating...

Chris Flask, professor of radiology, biomedical engineering and pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was one of 59 investigators selected to receive the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research 2023 Distinguished Investigator Award. Flask is also director of ...

The Group of Advancement for Doctoral Education (GADE) recently awarded Laura Voith, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the 2024 Donna Harrington Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring of Doctoral Students. Established in 2017, this award...