Awards

Brinn Omabegho, department manager for the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, is the recipient of the Joan Harris Staff Development Award for 2012-2013. The School of Medicine annually awards this honor to a non-faculty employee who demonstrates excellence in job performance, signifi...

Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Independence Foundation Professor Elizabeth Madigan received the Ruth Corcoran and Nancy Langston Nursing Education Research Grant from the National League for Nursing. The grant will support her project, "Development o...

Rebecca Patton, the Atkinson Visiting Instructor in Perioperative Nursing, was the 2013 recipient of the Dorothy Garrigus Adams Award for Excellence in Fostering Professional Standards. The award, presented by the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, recognizes extraordinary exce...

Timothy Webster, assistant professor of law, received the Dean's Distinguished Service Award for, among other things, negotiating partnership agreements with a dozen law schools on three continents. Webster was given the award this May....

Thrity Umrigar, associate professor of English, won a Lambda Literary Award in the Lesbian General Fiction category for her novel, The World We Found. Umrigar's novel was published in early 2012 and received high acclaim from various major news outlets. It tells the story of four students in India ...

Ronald Triolo, professor of orthopaedics and biomedical engineering, received a $502,718 grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity for his work on “A Hybrid Neuromechanical Ambulatory Assist System.” In this project, Triolo and his team will advance the design of the first-gene...

Glenn Nicholls, vice president for student affairs, was one of four U.S. individuals honored last month with a Lifetime Contribution to International Education award by ELS Educational Services. He was honored with the award for overseeing programs in areas including athletics, educational support ...

Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, was one of six health law professors to be awarded a Scholars in Residence Fellowship by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Fellowship program is run by The Network for Public Health Law. Hoffman wi...

At the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine conference, Satish Viswanath, assistant research professor of biomedical engineering, and Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, were awarded first place for their poster, titled “Bias field correction and intensity standar...

Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and his team at the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics were awarded a $100,000 QED Program grant to build computerized decision support for detecting prostate cancer on MRI. Madabhushi’s teams at Case Wester...