Awards

As a renowned scholar on elderly care issues, Eva Kahana has won countless awards from national and international organizations. Yet the news that she had been named one of Case Western Reserve’s Distinguished University Professors took her entirely by surprise. “They say that people far away…

Claudia Coulton conducts research with two goals: to identify issues in urban areas and to solve them. Time and again, her scholarly findings have prompted concrete leadership changes—which in turn have improved the lives of the people she studies. For example, when the Center for Urban Poverty…

The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women announced this year’s recipients of the Mather Spotlight Prize, each chosen by her school for excellence in scholarship and research. The prizes will be awarded at the center’s annual Women of Achievement luncheon on Friday, Oct. 12, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in…

Phi Kappa Tau’s Alpha Delta chapter at Case Western Reserve University recently received numerous awards at the fraternity’s 60th National Convention in Nashville, Tenn. The group was awarded: Academic Excellence Administrative Excellence Award (for reporting and administrative…

Often, collaboration helps turn a great idea into a life-changing invention, or a minor project into a major breakthrough. But for James M. Anderson, collaboration is what’s defined his career. As a professor of pathology, macromolecular science and biomedical engineering, Anderson’s 44 years at…

A team of five Case Western Reserve University students won second place in an entrepreneurial contest last week, when the Entrepreneurship Education Consortium held its sixth annual Entrepreneurship Immersion Week (EIW) at Case Western Reserve University. EIW is an intensive one-week, academic…

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recently Nancy M. Albert, adjunct associate professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, the organization’s Distinguished Research Lecturer. The senior director of nursing research and innovation for Cleveland Clinic and its Nursing…

Case Western Reserve University is among the leaders of a consortium that secured a $30 million federal grant to demonstrate ways to improve and expand manufacturing in the United States. Along with Carnegie Mellon University and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing, Case Western Reserve…

Perfection may drive many people in their work, but physics professor Walter Lambrecht actually seeks out imperfection. As the recipient of a 2012 Fulbright award, Lambrecht will research imperfections in crystals, better known in the physics world as “point defects,” this fall in Jülich,…

Seven faculty members have received Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) Core Utilization Awards so far this year. The awards support investigator use of and familiarity with CTSC Core operations and personnel, in anticipation of applications for external funding using CTSC…