Awards

Rita Sfiligoj, a graduate student at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, is one of five PhD and Doctor of Nursing Practice candidates selected for the National League for Nurses (NLN) Jonas Scholars Program. The program aims to advance the science of nursing education through evidence-based…

Barry Hartz, a Case Western Reserve University doctoral student in music education, has been selected as the Ohio Outstanding Music Educator. He will receive this award after 30 years of directing band. This spring, Hartz intends to retire from South Euclid-Lyndhurst Schools and continue his PhD…

Three faculty members received Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) Core Utilization Awards in November. The awards support investigative use of and familiarity with CTSC Core operations and personnel, in anticipation of applications for external funding with CTSC resources. The…

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…

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…