Awards

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…

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…

A poetry book by English department lecturer Brad Ricca was recently named the best poetry debut in Cleveland Magazine’s Best of Cleveland awards. The book, American Mastadon, is “the sort of poetry that makes you want to come through it over and over, hoping to further decipher the clues left…

The Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University is pleased to announce the following recipients of the 2012 Alumni Association Awards, which will be presented at 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 28 at the Homecoming All-Alumni Luncheon, held at Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic Center on the…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Stan Gerson is an extraordinary leader. Under his direction and vision, more than 300 physicians and researchers have come together in the fight against cancer. He is a brilliant scientist. His groundbreaking work has led to 12 patents, three companies and two renowned textbooks in his field. And…