Awards

The Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences—on behalf of Case Western Reserve University—on May 9 accepted the inaugural “Partnership Award” from the Court of Common Pleas, Juvenile Division at its annual…

Doctoral students Devin Burke, from the music department, and Sarah Koopman-Gonzalez, from the anthropology department, received the Richard A. Zdanis Fellowships of $5,000 to complete their dissertations. Burke, who will graduate in December with a degree in historical musicology, will use his…

Jaesung Lee, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), won the Best Student Paper Competition at the 2014 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IEEE IFCS 2014), for presenting his paper, “Atomically-Thin MoS2 Resonators for Pressure Sensing.”…

Ross Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, who is long known as an authority on historical tuning systems, has been spending his 2013-14 sabbatical in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Near the end of his time in the UK, he was honored by requests to coach two of the top choirs in the world,…

Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and his team were awarded a grant from The V Foundation for Cancer Research for $41,727. Their submission was titled "Use of PET and MR Imaging Biomarkers to Predict Response of Renal Cell Carcinoma to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor…

Peter de Blank, assistant professor of pediatrics, was named one of two winners of the inaugural Francis S. Collins Scholars Program in Neurofibromatosis Clinical and Translational Research, sponsored by the Neurofibromatosis Therapeutic Acceleration Program at Johns Hopkins University. The…

Anant Madabhushi, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and investigators at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, including Lyndsay Harris, professor of medicine-hematology and oncology, and Hannah Gilmore, assistant professor of pathology, were awarded a…

Brad Ricca, full-time lecturer in the Department of English, was named the 2014 winner of the Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award for Distinguished Teaching in the SAGES Program. The award was established in 2008 to honor exceptional teaching in the SAGES program at Case Western Reserve University. Ricca…

The Fellows of the Institute for the Science of Origins (ISO) held a surprise lunch May 29 to honor and recognize the leadership of Glenn Starkman, professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve…

Early Music America, a not-for-profit service organization for the field of historical performance in North America, recently granted a College-Level Development Grant to the Case Western Reserve Baroque Ensembles. The $1,000 grant will help support the CWRU Baroque Ensembles’ Musical and…