Awards

When Paul MacDonald, associate dean for graduate education in the School of Medicine, found out his name was being submitted for the university’s John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching, he was surprised, but also excited. “John S. Diekhoff was a gifted educator and an outstanding leader of…

Nicole Seiberlich, an assistant biomedical engineering professor, wants her PhD students to make painful discoveries—to struggle and find answers on their own. For that—and teaching, listening and counseling them—Seiberlich won the John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Student Mentoring this…

English professor Kurt Koenigsberger likes to joke about being the perpetual also-ran. His students have nominated Koenigsberger, who teaches and researches British literature of the late-19th and 20th centuries and serves as the English department’s director of graduate studies, for the John S.…

Sunniva Collins, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will be awarded the Cleveland Technical Societies Council’s Technical Educator Award at the 68th annual achievement and awards event May 5. The award is bestowed annually to individuals in the field of engineering who…

Robert Brown, Distinguished University Professor and Institute Professor in the Department of Physics, received the 2014 William A. Fowler Award for Distinguished Research from the American Physical Society. This award honors members of the society with appreciable connections to the State of Ohio…

A team of engineering undergraduates tackled Parker Hannifin’s Chainless Challenge this spring. They were the first team from Case Western Reserve to enter the competition, which was launched in 2006 to spark students’ interest in hydraulics. Participants build a bike in which the power is…

Elina Gertsman, assistant professor of medieval art, recently won the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America for her book, The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (Brepols, 2010). The award is given annually for the best first book from an author in…

Georgia Cowart, a professor in the Department of Music, received the 2014 SAGES Excellence in Writing Instruction Award. The honor recognizes Cowart’s commitment to helping students—from all areas of the campus—develop the skills necessary to better organize and articulate their thoughts,…

Kelvin Smith Library and the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship announced the recipients of the 2014 Freedman Fellows awards: Melvyn Goldstein, John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet Justin Gallagher, assistant professor,…

A team of scientists led by Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering, developed computational image analysis and pattern-recognition methods to distinguish vulnerable from stable plaque in the carotid on MRI images. In a study, recently published in the journal Medical…