Awards
February 27, 2015
Matthew Willard, associate professor of materials science and engineering, was selected as one of four 2015 Brimacombe Medalists for his achievements in materials science and engineering by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). He was selected for this honor from the nearly 10,000…
February 27, 2015
John Orlock, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities, was honored at the 10th Annual Final Draft Awards for his screenplay, The End-of Summer Guest. He took home an award in the “Period/Historical/War” genre. The screenplay details how Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a famous…
February 20, 2015
You won’t see Larry J. Hornbeck walking the red carpet with the likes of Bradley Cooper and Meryl Streep before the Academy Awards on Sunday. You won’t hear his name called to accept the familiar gold statuette—at least not live, anyway. Because the Case Western Reserve University triple alum,…
February 13, 2015
Mark Turner, Institute Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science, received an Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The five-year, €250,000 prize will support his collaborations with faculty members at the University of Osnabrück and other German…
February 13, 2015
Anne Nickoloff, a junior studying English and psychology with minors in creative writing, music and film, was recognized as one of nine winners of the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition. Winners were selected from universities across the United States. Nickoloff is an…
February 13, 2015
Brian McDermott, assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the School of Medicine, will receive the Dr. Ralph Horwitz Partnership Award from the Board of Trustees at John Hay High School's Cleveland School of Science and Medicine. McDermott received the award in recognition of his…
January 26, 2015
The Hartwell Foundation presented a 2014 Biomedical Research Collaboration Award to Jonathan Sears, MD, of Case Western Reserve University, and Randi Silver, PhD, of Cornell University, for their research to overcome blindness and chronic lung disease in very early pre-term infants. Sears, an…
January 23, 2015
Janet Gbur, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, placed first in the Student Presentation Competition sponsored by the ASTM (formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials) Committee E08 on Fatigue and Fracture held during ASTM…
January 23, 2015
Clarine Long, a first-year premed student and a biochemistry and mathematics double major, won the bronze medal at the 2015 Bulldog Classic Collegiate Figure Skating Competition in Adrian, Mich., earlier this month. She competed on behalf of the Case Western Reserve University Figure Skating Club,…
January 23, 2015
Jeffrey L. Duerk, dean of the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, has been named a 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow for contributions to rapid magnetic resonance imaging technologies. He joins an exclusive group of scholars in this…