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National Cancer Institute honors medicine professor with prestigious award
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…
Case Western Reserve University Mortar Board chapter receives national award
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…
Three medicine faculty receive CTSC Core Utilization Awards
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…
Associate Dean Molly Berger wins major prize for study of American luxury hotels
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,…
PhD student’s paper wins first place in national polymer research award competition
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:…
Pharmacology Professor Andreas Engel receives honorary doctorate from university in Denmark
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…
CWRU earns grant for Collaborative Ohio Inquiry Network to improve health care research
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…
Senior mechanical engineer wins people’s choice award for poster on CWRU wind turbine
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”…
Weatherhead School’s Richard Boyatzis named among top 10 influential thinkers
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report Distinguished University Professor Richard Boyatzis has emerged as the ninth most influential international thinker in a 2012 survey of more than 11,000 human resources directors worldwide. Boyatzis, a New York Times bestselling author…
Trustee, alumna to receive lifetime achievement award
Susie Gharib, a 1972 graduate of Case Western Reserve who went on to a highly distinguished career as a business journalist, will receive the New York Financial Writers’ Elliott V. Bell Award in honor of her exemplary contributions to the field as a print reporter and broadcast anchor. Now the…