Awards

Elina Gertsman, assistant professor of medieval art, recently won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America for her book, The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (Brepols, 2010). The award is given annually for the best first book from an author in…

Georgia Cowart, a professor in the Department of Music, received the 2014 SAGES Excellence in Writing Instruction Award. The honor recognizes Cowart’s commitment to helping students—from all areas of the campus—develop the skills necessary to better organize and articulate their thoughts,…

Kelvin Smith Library and the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship announced the recipients of the 2014 Freedman Fellows awards: Melvyn Goldstein, John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet Justin Gallagher, assistant professor,…

A team of scientists led by Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, developed computational image analysis and pattern-recognition methods to distinguish vulnerable from stable plaque in the carotid on MRI images. In a study, recently published in the journal Medical…

The Panhellenic Council and Interfraternity Council held their Giortaste Awards Ceremony April 14. The following awards were given: Chapter Awards Intramural Athletic Awards: Fraternity Division: Sigma Phi Epsilon Sorority Division: Phi Mu Mullet Division: Phi Delta Theta Agnar Pytte Cup…

Earlier this month, the Center for International Affairs hosted a celebratory evening honoring Case Western Reserve University Fulbright recipients and celebrating numerous international achievements of faculty, students and staff. The Fulbright Program, founded in 1946, is a prestigious awards…

Bradley Ricca, full-time lecturer in the Department of English, received the grand prize at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities' Poetry in the Museum Contest for his poem, "Float." He was recognized at Poetry in the Museum event, held April 6. More information about the contest and its…

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…

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…