Awards

Asclepii Inc., a company founded by Case Western Reserve University biomedical engineering student Franco Kraiselburd, was recently awarded a $450,000 non-dilutive translational research grant. The grant funding is to push Asclepii Inc.’s product Artemis, a platform designed to foster the next…

Since the start of the semester, Dhamakapella—Case Western Reserve University's South Asian fusion a cappella team—has competed in two bid competitions for All-American Awaaz, the national South Asian Fusion A Cappella competition. The team traveled to Michigan State's Spartan Sitara Jan. 27…

Case Western Reserve University held the third annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition Feb. 16. Developed by the University of Queensland and now held at over 900 institutions across more than 85 countries, 3MT celebrates the exciting research conducted by grad students around the world. This…

The nominees for the 2024 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2024 J. Bruce Jackson, MD, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring were recently announced. Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Established in honor of Carl Wittke…

Fangfang Wang, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Pharmacology, was recently awarded an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship. Over three years, Wang will study 53BP1 phase separation in genome stability and cancer. Wang is mentored by Youwei Zhang, professor in the…

Case Western Reserve University’s network of libraries has earned the 2024 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) award from Insight into Diversity magazine—recognizing efforts at Kelvin Smith Library, The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library, Lillian and Milford Harris Library, Cleveland…

Erin Ogden, a project manager at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN), was honored with the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year Award for 2024 by the Ohio Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Since 2022, Ogden has been an integral part of the PRCHN, where she works on…

Angela Clark-Taylor, executive director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, recently received the Mentorship Award from the National Women's Studies Association Women's Centers Committee. This award honors the critically important role that mentors play within women’s and gender equity…

Jeesoo Jeon, a doctoral candidate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was recently honored for her abstract at the Global Flourishing Conference. Scoring among the top 10 submissions, her abstract was titled “Household Challenges and Child flourishing:…

Chris Flask, professor of radiology, biomedical engineering and pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was one of 59 investigators selected to receive the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research 2023 Distinguished Investigator Award. Flask is also…