Awards

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…

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…

A team of undergraduates from Case Western Reserve University was the runner-up in Deloitte Consulting’s second “Battle of Ohio” Nov. 9 at the University of Dayton. The competition was a weeklong business case competition involving 12 teams of undergraduates from seven schools across Ohio. The…

Train the Champion, a diversity-training program, aims to recruit and retain employees and students. Above are Train the Champion graduates Angela Lowery, student service coordinator for the Center for Civic Engagement and Learning; Stephanie Hall, CWRU Police Officer; and Dan Anker, associate dean…

Research papers by Case Western Reserve University scholars—one on the melodic chirps of insects, another on the similarities of 16th century Roman secular and religious music—have earned prestigious honors from the American Musicological Society. Francesca Brittan, assistant professor of…

In recognition of her outstanding achievements and dedication to women’s leadership, Professor Diana Bilimoria will accept the ACE Ohio Women’s Network’s 2012 Excellence in Higher Education Leadership Award today. The ACE Ohio Women's Network is composed of women administrators, faculty and staff…

Jennifer Madden, a doctoral student at the Weatherhead School of Management and an adjunct instructor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, wrote a Community & Economic Development Healthy Food Financing Initiative grant that was awarded nearly $788,673. Madden’s grant, written for…

A film by Jenifer Neils, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, was selected for screening at the XXIII International Festival of Archaeological Film. Neils’ film, The Parthenon Project, is an educational film in which art history majors at Case Western Reserve re-created the Parthenon…

Afshin Dowlati, associate professor of medicine, recently received the Michaele C. Christian Oncology Development Lectureship and Award from the National Cancer Institute. The award recognizes the contributions of individuals to the development of novel agents for cancer therapy. Dowlati, who was…

The Lux chapter at Case Western Reserve University was among the outstanding Mortar Board chapters to be recognized at the 2012 Mortar Board National Conference, held in Chicago this summer. Chapter treasurer Jiakun Cheng was present to accept the chapter’s award. The Lux chapter received the…