Awards

Bridges, an album released earlier this year by David Ake, chair of the Department of Music, made three Best-of-2013 lists. The lists were on Burning Ambulance: A Journal of Arts and Culture, All About Jazz, and the Jazz Journalists Association....

Digital Technology Services and Solutions, a unit within Information Technology Services (ITS), received two awards from the Society for Technical Communication. The respiratory recovery mobile app created for Professor Jerry Silver received an “Excellence” award, and the research computing brochur...

Janice Eatman-Williams, assistant director at the Center for Civic Engagement and Learning and a Social Justice Institute leadership team member, received a 2013 Service Award in recognition of her contributions to the Cleveland Job Corps Center. At Case Western Reserve, Eatman-Williams connects Ca...

A Case Western Reserve University professor, two of his graduate students and a former postdoctoral researcher are among a group of scientists whose work was named by Physics World magazine today as one of the Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2013. Physics professor John Ruhl’s team helped design an...

Researchers hope to discover why some people struggle with their spirituality or religious beliefs and practices in the face of life’s challenges while others don’t. The answers, they say, may offer clues that help prevent stress-related health problems, because such strong internal conflicts can c...

Annual business award winners show strong growth in multiple sectors Laudan Properties LLC, a multi-faceted residential and commercial building services firm based in Twinsburg, earned the coveted No. 1 ranking in the prestigious 2013 Weatherhead 100 list of fastest-growing companies headquartered i...

Swarup Bhunia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was awarded a 2013 IBM Faculty Award. The IBM Faculty Awards is a competitive worldwide program intended to foster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and those in IBM research, develo...

Jonathan Stamler, professor of medicine and biochemistry at the School of Medicine and director of the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center, received the 2013 American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist Award at the association's annual conference in...

A team from the Weatherhead School of Management placed first in the National Society of Hispanic MBAs Case Competition, organized by the Cleveland chapter of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs. Richard Estremera, a KeyBank executive and one of the judges, explained that "the quality of the deliv...

Phil Thompson, a second-year PhD student in organizational behavior, won Best Student Paper and was a finalist for Best Paper at the most recent Midwest Academy of Management conference, a regional conference in the field. Of the nine submissions chosen as finalists for Best Paper, Thompson’s was th...