Awards

Information Technology Services’ service desk partner CDI IT Solutions was named the 2013 Outsourcer of the Year by HDI April 18 at its national conference in Las Vegas. The CDI Enterprise Help Desk, located in Cross Lanes, W.Va., is the provider of the university’s around-the-clock IT Service Desk...

In her pioneering studies, Cynthia Beall became used to the heady atmosphere high in the mountains of Tibet, Ethiopia and Peru. Now she’ll share rarified air with Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and more as a new member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Beall, a Distinguished Un...

A Case Western Reserve University student-led startup aimed at saving lives through faster, better and cheaper malaria diagnosis won the 2013 LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Business Idea Competition at the University of Akron this week. Disease Diagnostic Group LLC’s win comes on the heels of its nint...

Rakesh Niraj, associate professor of marketing and policy studies, won the 2012 Journal of Business to Business Marketing Outstanding Article Award for his research article, “Uncovering Customer Profitability Segments for Business Customers.” His work was selected due to its overall contribution to...

A feature article written by assistant sports information director Nick Minerd was selected for top honors in a quarterly recognition program jointly sponsored by the NCAA Division III staff and the Division III College Sports Information Directors of America. A panel of sports information officers...

On April 7, the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) team won first place in the National Cancer Institute-sponsored Grand Challenge on Segmentation of Prostatic Structures from MRI. The first-place Case Western Reserve University team was represented by graduate st...

ACES+, the continuation of Academic Careers in Engineering & Science (ACES) program, has announced the recipients of the 2013 ADVANCE Opportunity Grant Awards. Thirteen proposals from faculty across five schools and colleges, representing academic disciplines ranging from music to physics to pharmac...

Cassandra Robertson, associate professor of law, recently had her paper, “Freedom of Contract in the Market for Professional,” selected for the Freedom of Contract colloquium. Along with the selection, she was awarded $5,000. The paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Boston Universi...

Two Case Western Reserve University students have been honored by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, which recognizes outstanding potential and commitment to excellence in science, engineering and mathematics. Todd Norton, a third-year math and physics major,...

Case Western Reserve University historian Marixa Lasso received two prestigious fellowships—from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Humanities Center—to write a book about the forgotten history of the Panamanian towns that dotted the Canal Zone until a 1912 executive o...