Awards

From social sciences to social work, management to medicine, and biology to biomedical engineering, research is at the heart of Case Western Reserve University. In fact, this past fiscal year alone, researchers earned 1,623 sponsored research awards, totaling more than $311 million. Faculty across…

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) inducted Kenneth A. Loparo, the Nord Professor of Engineering and chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, to its College of Fellows. Loparo was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members…

On Saturday, March 21, Case Kismat Fusion Dance Team won first place at Buckeye Mela, a dance competition at the Ohio State University. Kismat competed against seven other teams from all over the country. It was the first time the team has won a competition in its three-year tenure. In addition to…

Mahdi Orooji, postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering was awarded a two-year Department of Defense postdoctoral fellowship for his project titled "Fusing MRI and Mechanical Imaging for Improved…

Beta Alpha Psi selected Mark Taylor, the Andrew D. Braden Professor of Accounting and Auditing and chair of the accountancy department, to receive the 2015 Business Information Professional of the Year award in the category of education. Beta Alpha Psi is the international honor organization for…

ACES+, the continuation of Academic Careers in Engineering & Sciences program, announced the recipients of the 2015 ADVANCE Opportunity Awards. Ten proposals representing academic disciplines ranging from psychological science to chemistry to theater were awarded a total of $34,309.60. "We're…

Stuart Rowan, the Kent Hale Smith Professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, received the 2015 Mark Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Polymer Division. The namesake of the award, Herman Mark, is considered the father of polymer science in the U.S.…

Mohsen Seifi, a doctoral researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was selected as one of the two 2015 Henry DeWitt Smith Scholar by the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). He was recognized at TMS 2015—the 144th annual Meeting & Exhibition in Orlando—where he…

Mandy Smith, a fourth-year doctoral student in musicology at Case Western Reserve University, kept the beat all the way to winning the 2015 David Sanjek Memorial Graduate Student Prize at the U.S. branch national meeting for the International Association of the Study of Popular Music in Louisville,…

The Distributed Little Red Hen Lab, co-directed by Mark Turner, Institute Professor and professor of cognitive science, has won a Google Summer of Code 2015 grant to fund student coders working in the Red Hen Lab on computational and statistical tools for the study of multimodal communication. The…