Awards

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…

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) recently awarded Krzysztof Palczewski, chair of the Department of Pharmacology, the Friedenwald Award, which recognizes outstanding research in the basic or clinical sciences as applied to ophthalmology. Palczewski earned the award for…

Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) presented Juscelino Colares, professor of law and associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, with an award for one of the three best articles of the year at SEALS conference Aug. 2 in Amelia Island, Fla. The paper, titled…

Silvia Prina, associate professor of economics, won two research grants for the project “Delivering Conditional Cash Transfers via Savings Accounts: Default and Mental Accounting Mechanisms.” Prina was invited to present her research at the International Food Policy Research Institute, the…

Thursday, three staff members—Kathryn Schultz, Henry Hill and Theresa Wilson—received this year's President’s Award for Distinguished Service, while Theresa Grigger received the inaugural Robin Kramer Volunteer Award. The annual awarding of the President’s Award for Distinguished Service honors up…