Awards

Sunniva Collins, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will be awarded the Cleveland Technical Societies Council’s Technical Educator Award at the 68th annual achievement and awards event May 5. The award is bestowed annually to individuals in the field of engineering who hav...

Robert Brown, Distinguished University Professor and Institute Professor in the Department of Physics, received the 2014 William A. Fowler Award for Distinguished Research from the American Physical Society. This award honors members of the society with appreciable connections to the State of Ohio ...

A team of engineering undergraduates tackled Parker Hannifin’s Chainless Challenge this spring. They were the first team from Case Western Reserve to enter the competition, which was launched in 2006 to spark students’ interest in hydraulics. Participants build a bike in which the power is transmit...

Elina Gertsman, assistant professor of medieval art, recently won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America for her book, The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (Brepols, 2010). The award is given annually for the best first book from an author in an...

Georgia Cowart, a professor in the Department of Music, received the 2014 SAGES Excellence in Writing Instruction Award. The honor recognizes Cowart’s commitment to helping students—from all areas of the campus—develop the skills necessary to better organize and articulate their thoughts, regardles...

Kelvin Smith Library and the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship announced the recipients of the 2014 Freedman Fellows awards: Melvyn Goldstein, John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet Justin Gallagher, assistant professor, economic...

A team of scientists led by Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, developed computational image analysis and pattern-recognition methods to distinguish vulnerable from stable plaque in the carotid on MRI images. In a study, recently published in the journal Medical Physics...

The Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council held their Giortaste Awards Ceremony April 14. The following awards were given: Chapter Awards Intramural Athletic Awards: Fraternity Division: Sigma Phi Epsilon Sorority Division: Phi Mu Mullet Division: Phi Delta Theta Agnar Pytte Cup Awards...

Earlier this month, the Center for International Affairs hosted a celebratory evening honoring Case Western Reserve University Fulbright recipients and celebrating numerous international achievements of faculty, students and staff. The Fulbright Program, founded in 1946, is a prestigious awards pro...

Bradley Ricca, full-time lecturer in the Department of English, received the grand prize at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities' Poetry in the Museum Contest for his poem, "Float." He was recognized at Poetry in the Museum event, held April 6. More information about the contest and its winner...