Awards

At the Intersections: SOURCE Poster Session on Dec. 9, 16 students placed in the poster competition. Those honored were: Natural Sciences Poster Competition (Tie) 1st: Catherine Osborn, “Genes and Environment: How Do Activity, Density, and Diet Affect Tadpole Oral Morphology.” Faculty mentor: Mi...

Donald Freedheim, emeritus professor of psychology, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cleveland Psychological Association. He was recognized during the association’s dinner and annual program Dec. 5 in Beachwood. Freedheim was the founding director of the Schubert Center for Child St...

A delegation from Weatherhead School of Management’s chapter of Beta Alpha Psi placed second in the inaugural Ethics Dialogue Award contest convened by the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence. Student teams were asked to identify and explore the most serious ethical issues confron...

Dhamakapella, an international music group from Case Western Reserve University, was named the second best South Asian a cappella group in the country at Anahat, earning the group a $1,000 prize. Anahat is an annual competition at UC Berkeley for which eight groups are selected from dozens of audit...

John J. Lewandowski, the Leonard Case Jr. Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, received three grants from the U.S. Department of Defense within the last few weeks totaling more than $1.38 million. Two grants—one from the Army and the other from the Defense...

Celeste Marie Alfes, assistant professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, was one of 20 nurse educators selected for the National League for Nursing’s yearlong Leadership Development Program for Simulation Educators. The program aims to expand the science of nursing education related ...

The Ohio State Bar Foundation will recognize the efforts of the Fugitive Safety Surrender program with the “Outstanding Program Award” during a reception Nov. 4 in Columbus. Violence prevention experts at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, including Daniel Flannery, the Dr. Semi J. and Ru...

Research from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine to study an isolated agent from common oral bacteria may hold the answer as to how human beta defensins (HBDs)—nature’s way of keeping oral microbes from entering the body and wreaking havoc on our health—can be used to create n...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will lead a national study determining if corneas transplanted up to two weeks after donor death work as well as corneas transplanted up to one week after donor death. The National Eye Institute has just awarded a $12.3 million grant ...

The applicant brief by the School of Law’s 2011 Jessup Team received the 2011 Richard Baxter Award for Best Applicant Memorial. CWRU had already received an award in March for the fifth-best combined briefs of the teams competing in the International Rounds. A separate panel of judges subsequently ...