Awards

Anthropology’s Eileen Anderson-Fye started the academic year by giving the first-ever faculty address to the incoming undergraduate class. She finished it by becoming the only person in university history to win its top award for undergraduate teaching 12 months after claiming the campus prize for ...

Two winners of the inaugural 2013 Flora Award—from the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women—will be honored in a free, public event May 21 at 4:30 p.m. at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The historical society is an institution with ties to the late social justice advocate and philanthropist...

Fourth-year engineering student Alan Filer has won a Fulbright scholarship to travel to South Korea in the fall. There, he’ll explore ways to make cheaper and cleaner alternatives to costly and toxic materials used in solar panels. Filer, who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in materials scie...

What makes social work professor Mark Singer such an effective mentor is he never forgets the challenges he faced as a Case Western Reserve University graduate student. He recalls the heavy workload and preparations for his doctoral exam, financial burdens and all-consuming researching and writing...

Daniela Calvetti’s efforts as chair of the mathematics department, teacher, mentor, adviser, researcher, role model—the list goes on—funnels down to a simple philosophy. “Each student has potential and has dreams and has goals, and it’s my job to make it easier for them to achieve these,” Calvetti ...

Tina He, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) mentored by Professor Philip Feng, won the Best Student Paper competition at the 8th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered & Molecular S...

Students at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine know that even in nutrition courses, there’s always room for sweets. That’s because, in Colleen Croniger’s relatable, interactive teaching style, Halloween candy is the springboard to a broader discussion on biochemical pathways. She ch...

What makes Diane Bergeron a respected and appreciated teacher at the graduate level is her recognition of each student's particular talents, just as a skilled manager does within a successful organization. The key, she says, is a willingness to make adjustments so the best outcome can occur. "With ...

Chemistry graduate student Jim Heckler won the International Precious Metals Institute's Johnson Matthey Graduate Student Award for his study of precious metals. Heckler is a member of associate professor of chemistry Thomas Gray's lab, which focuses on the design of novel and useful complexes of go...

Doctoral student Elizabeth Hankins received the Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award. Hankins will travel to New Haven, Conn., in June to participate in the Symposium on Music in Schools that will take place at the Yale School of Music as part of the Music in Schools Initiative. With support fro...