Awards

The team of Alyssa Dechow, Del Guile and Garret Bowman, from the School of Law, won the Scribes 2014 Brief Award for their brief from the J. Braxton Craven Jr. Memorial Moot-Court Competition. The winners were invited to attend and be recognized at the Scribes Annual Meeting during the American…

Pallavi Tiwari, research assistant professor, and Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, were awarded a Phase II Coulter award on their project "NeuroRadVisionTM: Image based risk assessment for presence of recurrent tumor or radiation effects on MRI" at the Center for Computational…

Case Western Reserve University awarded Lizzy Benway, a junior nursing major, the fourth Douglas W. Nock Endowment Scholarship. The award recognizes and provides financial assistance to outstanding undergraduate students or admitted high school graduates who have advanced the mission of the…

Israel Hill, a sophomore studying computer science, and Evan Harris, a sophomore studying finance, were each awarded a fully funded three-week study program in China by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. While in China, the students will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the…

The Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences—on behalf of Case Western Reserve University—on May 9 accepted the inaugural “Partnership Award” from the Court of Common Pleas, Juvenile Division at its annual…

Doctoral students Devin Burke, from the music department, and Sarah Koopman-Gonzalez, from the anthropology department, received the Richard A. Zdanis Fellowships of $5,000 to complete their dissertations. Burke, who will graduate in December with a degree in historical musicology, will use his…

Jaesung Lee, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), won the Best Student Paper Competition at the 2014 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IEEE IFCS 2014), for presenting his paper, “Atomically-Thin MoS2 Resonators for Pressure Sensing.”…

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,…

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…

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…