Awards

Susie Gharib, a 1972 graduate of Case Western Reserve who went on to a highly distinguished career as a business journalist, will receive the New York Financial Writers’ Elliott V. Bell Award in honor of her exemplary contributions to the field as a print reporter and broadcast anchor. Now the co-a...

Armed with a new $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, dermatology researcher Nicole Ward, assistant professor of dermatology and neurosciences at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, will lead a study examining the link between psoria...

Case Western Reserve University has won a $3.8 million grant to lead a new international effort reducing oil dependency: building wind turbine blades and solar panels from biomaterials. During the next five years, scientists and engineers will first try to improve the quality and performance of exi...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.7 million grant to Mark Chance, director of the Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, for work with the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The gra...

The Case Alumni Association, representing graduates of the Case School of Engineering and math and science alumni of Case Western Reserve University, announced its 2012 award recipients, who will be honored at the 127th annual Case Alumni Association All-Classes Reunion Banquet on Sept. 28. This ye...

SAGES and the Case Western Reserve University Writing Program have announced the top SAGES writing portfolios from the 2011–12 academic year. Faculty members from across the university met for two weeks in June to review all submitted portfolios, and they singled out the following students' work as...

Aloen Townsend, professor of social work and chair of the doctoral program at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, recently received the Association of Gerontological Education in Social Work (AGE-SW) Leadership Award for her research and scholarship contributions to social gerontology. To...

Case Western Reserve University’s undergraduate biomedical engineering program jumped to eighth nationally in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013 college rankings, up from 13th last year. The rise coincides with the enrollment of the program’s largest first-year class in history—estimated to be more th...

Maxwell Mehlman, Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and Director of the Law-Medicine Center, has been awarded an 18-month, $117,000 grant by the National Institutes of Health to conduct the first study of the ethical, legal, and policy implications of the use of genetic science by the U.S. milita...

Luke Nantz, a senior at Case Western Reserve University, was awarded the E. Thomas Boles, Jr., M.D., Scholarship through the Phi Kappa Tau Foundation. A sociology major working toward a career in education, Nantz holds a 3.92 GPA. He was initiated into Phi Kappa Tau in 2009 with the Alpha Delta cha...