Awards

Kalle Lyytinen, associate dean for research at the Weatherhead School of Management and an expert widely known for his work to digitally transform organizations, has earned the prestigious 2013 LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems, the top honor from the Association ...

At the Dec. 6 Intersections: SOURCE Symposium and Poster Session, a number of students were honored for their oral and poster presentations. Those awarded were: Engineering Poster Competition (Tie) 1st: Khalid Al-Dhubaib, "Towards a Method for Forecasting Influenza Intensity: Applied Signal Proce...

Amy Y. Zhang, associate professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, received the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Pain and Symptom Management Research Section of Midwest Nursing Research Society. Zhang’s research interests include quality of life in cancer patients, psychosocial...

Umut Gurkan, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Glenn Wera, assistant professor of orthopedics at the School of Medicine, received the first Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center Steven Garverick Innovation Incentive award for their collaborative research, "Synovial...

At a young age, John Broich felt a compulsion to understand how things came to be. Well before his high school years, he remembers thinking that the fundamental questions about how people came to act and think weren’t being asked. Like any good researcher, he began searching for answers to these qu...

Walk in My Shoes–HIV/AIDS Awareness, an event hosted by Juniper Residential College, gained regional and national recognition as an outstanding diversity program in the National Residence Hall Honorary’s “Of the Month” awards. The event, held Nov. 22, was part of the annual Walk in My Shoes program...

The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) and United States Tennis Association (USTA) named Case Western Reserve University men’s head tennis coach Todd Wojtkowski as the Midwest Region's recipient of the 2013 Sectional Campus and Community Outreach Award. Wojtkowski was one of only seven coache...

Researchers at Affinity Therapeutics, a Case Western Reserve University spinoff whose technology allows the release of drug therapy to be customized and better controlled, recently received another round of federal funding, through the National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation Research...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University received a $486,000 Doris Duke Foundation award to discover how to predict when sickle cell disease patients will suffer an acute crisis and monitor the effectiveness of treatments. For decades, scientists have known that during acute crises, patients’...

Michael Clune, associate professor of English, released his book, White Out, earlier this year. The memoir made several “Best Books of 2013” lists including those on: The New Yorker, Themillions.com and Hobartpulp.com. For more information on Clune, visit case.edu/artsci/engl/Clune/Clune.html....