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Mather Prize honorees from each school announced; reception to be held Oct. 12
The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women announced this year’s recipients of the Mather Spotlight Prize, each chosen by her school for excellence in scholarship and research. The prizes will be awarded at the center’s annual Women of Achievement luncheon on Friday, Oct. 12, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in th...
CWRU chapter of Phi Kappa Tau honored at national convention
Phi Kappa Tau’s Alpha Delta chapter at Case Western Reserve University recently received numerous awards at the fraternity’s 60th National Convention in Nashville, Tenn. The group was awarded: Academic Excellence Administrative Excellence Award (for reporting and administrative detail) Philanthr...
Medicine’s James Anderson selected as one of five Distinguished University Professors
Often, collaboration helps turn a great idea into a life-changing invention, or a minor project into a major breakthrough. But for James M. Anderson, collaboration is what’s defined his career. As a professor of pathology, macromolecular science and biomedical engineering, Anderson’s 44 years at Ca...
CWRU team wins second place at 2012 Immersion Week Event
A team of five Case Western Reserve University students won second place in an entrepreneurial contest last week, when the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium held its sixth annual Entrepreneurship Immersion Week (EIW) at Case Western Reserve University. EIW is an intensive one-week, academic imme...
Adjunct faculty member Nancy Albert named Distinguished Research Lecturer by nursing association
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recently Nancy M. Albert, adjunct associate professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, the organization’s Distinguished Research Lecturer. The senior director of nursing research and innovation for Cleveland Clinic and its Nursing Insti...
CWRU part of $30 million federal initiative to grow, improve manufacturing
Case Western Reserve University is among the leaders of a consortium that secured a $30 million federal grant to demonstrate ways to improve and expand manufacturing in the United States. Along with Carnegie Mellon University and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing, Case Western Reserve h...
Physics professor Walter Lambrecht travels to Germany for Fulbright-funded research
Perfection may drive many people in their work, but physics professor Walter Lambrecht actually seeks out imperfection. As the recipient of a 2012 Fulbright award, Lambrecht will research imperfections in crystals, better known in the physics world as “point defects,” this fall in Jülich, Germany. ...
Seven faculty members receive CTSC Core Utilization Awards
Seven faculty members have received Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) Core Utilization Awards so far this year. The awards support investigator use of and familiarity with CTSC Core operations and personnel, in anticipation of applications for external funding using CTSC resour...
History’s Alan Rocke selected as American Chemical Society Fellow
Alan J. Rocke, the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History and a Distinguished University Professor, has been selected as a member of the 2012 class of American Chemical Society Fellows. Rocke specializes in the history of the physical sciences during the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particula...
Physics faculty Xuan Gao receives Outstanding Young Researcher Award
Xuan Gao, assistant professor in the Department of Physics, recently received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers. This award recognizes a young physicist/astronomer of Chinese ethnicity working in North America, Europe or ...