Awards

Kalle Lyytinen, associate dean for research and Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design, received the LEO Award from the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The LEO Award is named after the Lyons Electronic Office—the world's first commercial computer. The annual award is presented…

Tim Fogarty, professor of accountancy, and Greg Jonas, associate professor of accountancy, received the Best Paper Award for their paper “Author characteristics for major accounting journals: differences among similarities 1989–2009,” published in Issues in Accounting Education.

Allison Kipling, a graduate student in the translational health technology master's program at Case School of Engineering, launched a company to develop a product that started as a class project. She won $10,000 in the Brien Holden Vision Competition in March for her business plan and used the…

Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and a member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, was awarded U.S. patent 8,774,479, titled “System and method for automated segmentation, characterization and classification of possibly malignant lesions and stratification of malignant…

The Society of Pediatric Psychology (Division 54) chose Olena Zyga, a senior studying pediatric psychology, as an outstanding undergraduate student. Zyga has contributed to research on many topics, including pretend play and developmental disorders, neuroimaging and adolescent obesity and the…

Esperanza Inc. honored four Case Western Reserve University scholarship winners at the Fiesta of Hope luncheon on June 27. Santiago Chabrier, an engineering major, Isaac Martinez, a nursing major, Alberto Rodriguez, a music education major, and Elizabeth Reyes, a nursing major, were among the 103…

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…