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Outstanding employees recognized at Staff Service Awards event
Four outstanding staff members were recognized last week at the Staff Service Awards brunch for their contributions to the Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland communities. Theresa Grigger, Amy Hammett and Gene Matthews received the President’s Award for Distinguished Service, while Cliffo...
Nursing’s Mary Quinn Griffin earns National League for Nursing fellowship
The Academy of Nursing Education’s National League for Nursing has selected Mary Quinn Griffin to be a member of its sixth group of fellows. Quinn Griffin, an associate professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, was selected for her evidence of enduring and substantial contributions t...
Weatherhead School faculty win prize for best educational research paper
Timothy Fogarty, professor of accountancy, Larry Parker, associate professor of accountancy, and Gregory Jonas, assistant professor of accounting, recently won the Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum Prize for the best educational research paper at the 2012 Ohio American Accounting Association Region...
Two nutrition faculty members honored by Ohio Dietetic Association
The Ohio Dietetic Association honored two School of Medicine faculty members at its 91st annual conference May 17-18. Elaine Borawski, the Angela Bowen Williamson Professor in Community Nutrition, received the Outstanding Contribution by a Non-Member Award in recognition of the value and empowermen...
CWRU class earns "Science" magazine prize for innovation
Science magazine has awarded a prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction to a Case Western Reserve University class that melds biology, computer modeling, mathematical analysis and writing. “Dynamics of Biological Systems,” taught by Biology Professor Hillel Chiel and three graduate assistants, abandons ...
Margot Damaser wins School of Medicine’s 2012 Gender Equity Award
Margot Damaser, associate professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, recently was honored with the American Medical Women’s Association Clinical Gender Equity Award for 2012. Damaser, a nationally and internat...
Lisa Nielson wins award for distinguished teaching in SAGES program
Lisa Nielson is this year’s winner of The Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award for Distinguished Teaching in the SAGES Program. The award was established in 2008 to honor distinguished teaching in the SAGES program at Case Western Reserve University. Nielson is the Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow and leads SA...
Ohio Department of Aging names Terry Hokenstad to Senior Citizens Hall of Fame
The Ohio Department of Aging has inducted Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Professor Merl "Terry" Hokenstad into the Ohio Senior Citizens Hall of Fame. A Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Hokenstad, 75, has been a proponent of the aging population for mo...
Engineering student wins Ohio Cool Co-op Contest
Engineering student William Holman was one of three winners of the Ohio Cool Co-op Contest, sponsored by the Ohio Cooperative Education Association (OCEA). In the spring and summer between his junior and senior years, Holman, a civil-engineering major, completed a co-op with Transystems Corporation...
Two School of Medicine professors named health care heroes by "Crain's Cleveland Business"
Two Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine professors were named health care heroes by Crain's Cleveland Business. Elaine Borawski, director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods and the Angela Bowen Williamson Professor in Community Nutrition, was lauded as a heal...