Awards

Last year, the university announced it would partner with Kelly Services to provide employees free opportunities to develop skills to meet demands of today’s workplace. At the request of John D. Wheeler, senior vice president for administration, the agency created a five-course program for staff to ...

At the Intersections: SOURCE Poster Session on Dec. 9, 23 students placed in the poster competition. Those honored were: Natural Sciences Poster Competition 1st: Elena Svenson, “Network Effects of TP53 and PTEN Mutations in Glioblastoma Multiforme Patients.” Faculty mentor: Mark Chance, Center f...

Clifford Harding, professor and chair of pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and director of the university’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Harding was elected as an A...

Ohio Cancer Research Associates (OCRA) honored David Wald, an assistant professor in Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and a physician with University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, with the 2012 “Seed Money Award” for his team’s novel research in leukemi...

David Hammack, the Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History, recently was awarded the Distinguished Achievement and Leadership Award of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). Hammack has written extensively on the history of America’s civil society and non...

Miach Medical Innovations, a medical device company led by Case Western Reserve University student Cullen Dolan, took first place—and a $1,500 prize—in the JumpStart Inc. Northeast Ohio Entrepreneur Expo’s inaugural student business competition. The company is developing a device that uses pressure-...

Case Western Reserve University graduate student JeShaune Jackson admires innovation. He also knows that ideas derived in a research lab often end up shelved. To combat this trend, the 25-year-old Weatherhead School of Management student, with other Case Western Reserve students from medicine, law,...

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods’ Network of Community Advisors, a primary advisory body to the PRCHN, won the Community-Based Participatory Research Best Practice Award at the National Community Committee meeting of the Prevention Research Centers Program in Baltimore in Oct...

During the annual session of the Great Lakes Association of Orthodontists, two School of Dental Medicine orthodontics residents won first and second place for their research presentations. Only three awards were presented for the Great Lakes Association, which is the regional chapter of the America...

The Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA), the nation’s oldest transplant association, has chosen Jonathan Lass for the 2012 R. Townley Paton Award for his work on corneal preservation and his 30-plus-year career as an ophthalmologist and medical educator. Lass is the Charles I Thomas Professor an...