Awards

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…

A regional partnership that helped secure more than $120 million to advance medical knowledge and treatments has won a new form of recognition: the national Health Improvement Institute’s Award for Excellence in Human Research Protection. The honor, one of just three the institute granted this…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Jeffrey L. Duerk, dean of the Case School of Engineering, recently was named a Distinguished Investigator of the Academy of Radiology Research. This award recognizes individuals for their accomplishments in the field of imaging research. This is the first year the award has been bestowed, and only…

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…

David Crampton, associate professor of social work in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, received the 2012 Triad Advocate of the Year Award, presented by Adoption Network Cleveland. The award honors those who have made a significant contribution to the adoption and/or foster care field.…