Awards

The National Center for Regenerative Medicine’s (NCRM) efforts to advance the use of stem cells for patient health earned a major endorsement last week when Ohio’s Third Frontier Commission awarded $2.4 million to the center’s latest initiative. The center’s OH-Alive project builds on the earlier c...

Last semester, the Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University, named two Case Western Reserve University students Australia Students of the Month. Julie Gilmer, student of the month for April, studied at James Cook University in Townsville, where she spent five weeks working at the Townsville Co...

Researchers at The Center for Health Care Research and Policy, a joint program by MetroHealth and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recently were honored with the Arrow Award for the best paper in health economics in 2011. The International Health Economics Association described th...

Case Western Reserve University’s chapter of Theta Chi received the 2011/2012 Howard R. Alter Jr. Award for Chapter Excellence, the fraternity’s highest chapter honor. This marks the third time the Case Western Reserve chapter has won the Alter Award. Eleven chapters—out of 131 total—were presented...

President Barack Obama Monday named biomedical engineering faculty member Jeffrey R. Capadona one of the nation’s 96 most promising young scientists for his pioneering work in bridging connections between artificial implants and the human body. Capadona, a biomedical engineering associate professor...

A design project conducted by Weatherhead School of Management students for Cleveland Clinic was named the runner-up in the 2012 Core77 Design Awards. Core77 is a magazine and gathering point for designers, students and enthusiasts that selects design projects from products to services and beyond fo...

OnlineColleges recently named School of Law Dean Lawrence Mitchell’s blog, View from the Circle, one of the Top 10 Blogs by University Deans. He is one of three law deans on the list; others include law deans from Roger Williams University and Northwestern University. In his blog, Mitchell looks at...

Alex Huang, associate professor of pediatrics, has been awarded a $200,000 grant from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to finding cures for children with cancer. The foundation awarded 48 grants totaling more than $4 million to doctors, researchers and medical and graduate st...

Case Western Reserve University will build on its extensive health programs for underserved patients with an investment of $6.4 million shared between the university and the Ohio Medicaid program. The state committed $3.3 million of federal Medicaid dollars to support efforts to prepare health care...

Pedram Mohseni, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Case School of Engineering, and his research partner, Randolph J. Nudo, professor of molecular and integrative physiology at Kansas University Medical Center, recently took top honors for a business plan they craft...