Awards
November 01, 2012
Jennifer Madden, a doctoral student at the Weatherhead School of Management and an adjunct instructor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, wrote a Community & Economic Development Healthy Food Financing Initiative grant that was awarded nearly $788,673. Madden’s grant, written for…
November 01, 2012
A film by Jenifer Neils, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, was selected for screening at the XXIII International Festival of Archaeological Film. Neils’ film, The Parthenon Project, is an educational film in which art history majors at Case Western Reserve re-created the Parthenon…
October 25, 2012
Afshin Dowlati, associate professor of medicine, recently received the Michaele C. Christian Oncology Development Lectureship and Award from the National Cancer Institute. The award recognizes the contributions of individuals to the development of novel agents for cancer therapy. Dowlati, who was…
October 24, 2012
The Lux chapter at Case Western Reserve University was among the outstanding Mortar Board chapters to be recognized at the 2012 Mortar Board National Conference, held in Chicago this summer. Chapter treasurer Jiakun Cheng was present to accept the chapter’s award. The Lux chapter received the…
October 17, 2012
Three faculty members received Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) Core Utilization Awards in August. 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…
October 17, 2012
Molly Berger, instructor in the Department of History and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious award for her study of a distinctively American form of technological innovation: the luxury hotel. During an international conference in Copenhagen on Oct. 6,…
October 17, 2012
A paper by PhD student Mohamed Baqar recently won first place in the third annual Excellence in Thermoset Polymer Research Awards. Baqar, a doctoral student in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering, won for his paper, "Methylol-Functional Benzoxazines:…
October 15, 2012
Andreas Engel, professor of pharmacology, recently was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Aarhus University in Denmark for his outstanding research work in investigating the structure of membrane proteins. Engel was presented with an honorary doctorate in health sciences during the annual…
October 15, 2012
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently awarded Case Western Reserve University a grant to create one of eight Primary Care Practice-Based Research and Learning Centers in the country. The Collaborative Ohio Inquiry Networks (COIN) will bring together many of Ohio's…
October 15, 2012
Senior mechanical engineering major Matheus Fernandes recently presented an award-winning poster at the COMSOL Multiphysics Conference in Boston. Fernandes’ poster, titled “Wind Flow Modeling of Area Surrounding the Case Western Reserve University Wind Turbine,” won the “Popular Choice”…