Awards

For the first HackCWRU on March 28 and 29, 85 students from six schools took over Nord Hall for 24 hours to finish 19 projects. Throughout the weekend, students were invited to program or build any project in any language. The winners were: Zach Hudson: $1,000 grand prize from Flashstarts for mod...

When Roberto Fernández Galán, assistant professor of neuroscience, proposed investigating how neuronal activity in brain circuits relate to autism, The Hartwell Foundation supported the idea. Galán recently received a 2013 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, which placed him in a line of ...

Case Footlighters, Case Western Reserve's musical theater group, took first place in the second Student Organization Spirit Day, held March 21. The spirit day encouraged campus organizations to take part in competitive, spirited activities—from three-legged races to egg hunts, trivia competitions t...

Shanina Knighton, a PhD candidate at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, received third place in the Peter Galen - Brien Holden Vision 2014 Competition. The Peter Galen - Brien Holden Vision competition is a graduate competition for open to all CWRU graduate students for biomedical-related ...

Philip Feng, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, together with Tse Nga (Tina) Ng of the Palo Alto Research Center, received a Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grant from the National Academy of Engineering. Feng was one of 81 of the nation’s brightest you...

First-year Weatherhead School of Management Master of Science in Management-Finance students Snow Chen, Nick Dayton, Adil Hader and Naiwen Zhang along with first-year MBA student Sergio De Ilzarbe placed first in the CFA Institute Research Challenge in Cleveland. The challenge provides students the...

Eric Baer, Distinguished University Professor and the Herbert Henry Dow Professor of Science and Engineering, was recognized by the Ohio-Region Section of the American Physical Society with the William Fowler Award for distinguished research in physics. The William Fowler Award honors the society’s...

Devin Burke, a PhD candidate in Case Western Reserve University’s musicology program, won the outstanding student paper award at the recent Society for Eighteenth Century Music/Haydn Society of North America, Sixth Biennial Conference. Burke earned the honor for his paper, “The Triumph of the Anima...

Case Western Reserve University’s Infectious Diseases Alliance graduated its second group of teen peer educators in February. ID Alliance peer educators participated in training, facilitated by Brynne Presser of the Division of Infectious Disease and HIV Medicine, since July 2013. Peer educators ar...

Information Technology Services (ITS) announced that Emeka Anyanwu, a School of Medicine student, placed first in the contest to build a mobile app for reporting wireless and mobile signal strength. The contest was sponsored by ITS and the Undergraduate Student Government IT Committee in support of ...