Awards

The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods’ Network of Community Advisors, a primary advisory body to the PRCHN, won the Community-Based Participatory Research Best Practice Award at the National Community Committee meeting of the Prevention Research Centers Program in Baltimore in…

David Crampton, associate professor of social work in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, received the 2012 Triad Advocate of the Year Award, presented by Adoption Network Cleveland. The award honors those who have made a significant contribution to the adoption and/or foster care field.…

During the annual session of the Great Lakes Association of Orthodontists, two School of Dental Medicine orthodontics residents won first and second place for their research presentations. Only three awards were presented for the Great Lakes Association, which is the regional chapter of the…

The Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA), the nation’s oldest transplant association, has chosen Jonathan Lass for the 2012 R. Townley Paton Award for his work on corneal preservation and his 30-plus-year career as an ophthalmologist and medical educator. Lass is the Charles I Thomas Professor…

A team of undergraduates from Case Western Reserve University was the runner-up in Deloitte Consulting’s second “Battle of Ohio” Nov. 9 at the University of Dayton. The competition was a weeklong business case competition involving 12 teams of undergraduates from seven schools across Ohio. The…

Train the Champion, a diversity-training program, aims to recruit and retain employees and students. Above are Train the Champion graduates Angela Lowery, student service coordinator for the Center for Civic Engagement and Learning; Stephanie Hall, CWRU Police Officer; and Dan Anker, associate dean…

Research papers by Case Western Reserve University scholars—one on the melodic chirps of insects, another on the similarities of 16th century Roman secular and religious music—have earned prestigious honors from the American Musicological Society. Francesca Brittan, assistant professor of…

In recognition of her outstanding achievements and dedication to women’s leadership, Professor Diana Bilimoria will accept the ACE Ohio Women’s Network’s 2012 Excellence in Higher Education Leadership Award today. The ACE Ohio Women's Network is composed of women administrators, faculty and staff…

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…

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…