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Musicology lecturer Nita Karpf wins award for best journal article
Musicology lecturer Nita Karpf won the R. Serge Denisoff Award for the best article published in the journal Popular Music and Society. Karpf’s article, which appeared in December 2011, is titled, “Get the Pageant Habit: E. Azalia Hackley’s Festivals and Pageants during the First World War Years, 19...
Graduate students win “Ingenuity and Novelty” award at Parker Hannifin challenge
Mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate students Nick Badger and Andrew Smith competed in the Parker Hannifin Corporation’s 2012 “Chainless Challenge,” in which students designed and built a human-hydraulic hybrid bicycle. The competition was held April 12-13 in Irvine, Calif. Instead of a di...
Law’s Leon Gabinet receives 2012 Golden Achievement Award for Education
School of Law Professor Leon Gabinet is the recipient of the 2012 Golden Achievement Award for Education. The Golden Age Centers of Greater Cleveland (GAC) established The Golden Achievement Awards to honor individuals of mature years for significant contribution to the quality of life in the commu...
Mandel School student wins Master of Social Work Student of the Year Award
Each year, the Cuyahoga County chapter of the National Association of Social Workers awards the MSW Student of the Year Award to an outstanding student. The selection is based on a student’s academic performance and his or her nominations. This year, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences student...
Case Western Reserve named one of most environmentally responsible colleges
Case Western Reserve University is one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the U.S. and Canada, according to “The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition." Created by The Princeton Review in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council, “The Princeton Review...
Begun Center researcher wins annual award from MST Services
Renne Dragomir has been awarded the 2011 “Whatever It Takes” award from MST Services, an organization focused on implementing Multisystemic Therapy (MST) to improve the lives of troubled youth and the lives of their families. Dragomir is a research associate in the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Cent...
Career Center earns silver status in OUT for Work’s certification program
The Career Center achieved silver status in OUT for Work’s 2012 Career Center Certification Program, an upgrade from the bronze level last year. In the last year, the Career Center added programs, resources and services highlighting issues particular to students who identify as LGBTQ. Working clos...
Post-doctoral fellow wins best oral presentation award
Matthew Schiefer, a post-doctoral fellow in the Training Program in Musculoskeletal Research in the Department of Orthopaedics, won the award for best oral presentation by a post-doctoral fellow at Musculoskeletal Research Day. Schiefer’s platform and poster presentations were on the subject of “Co...
Junior Caitlin Bowerman wins Dr. Jennie S. Hwang Scholarship
Junior biomedical engineering major Caitlin Bowerman was selected as the 2012 Dr. Jennie S. Hwang scholarship award winner for this year. Bowerman will be recognized at the 36th Annual YWCA Women of Achievement Luncheon on May 14. The award recognizes an outstanding female student who is majoring i...
Inclusion and Diversity Achievement Award winners announced; luncheon to be held April 19
The Office of Inclusion, Diversity & Equal Opportunity announced the winners of the fourth annual Inclusion and Diversity Achievement Awards. Winners were selected for faculty and staff leadership, department/office/unit excellence and graduate/professional and student achievement. The award winner...