Awards

Margot Damaser, associate professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, recently was honored with the American Medical Women’s Association Clinical Gender Equity Award for 2012. Damaser, a nationally and…

Lisa Nielson is this year’s winner of The Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award for Distinguished Teaching in the SAGES Program.  The award was established in 2008 to honor distinguished teaching in the SAGES program at Case Western Reserve University. Nielson is the Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow and leads…

The Ohio Department of Aging has inducted Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences Professor Merl "Terry" Hokenstad into the Ohio Senior Citizens Hall of Fame. A Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Hokenstad, 75, has been a proponent of the aging population for…

Engineering student William Holman was one of three winners of the Ohio Cool Co-op Contest, sponsored by the Ohio Cooperative Education Association (OCEA). In the spring and summer between his junior and senior years, Holman, a civil-engineering major, completed a co-op with Transystems…

Two Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine professors were named health care heroes by Crain's Cleveland Business. Elaine Borawski, director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods and the Angela Bowen Williamson Professor in Community Nutrition, was lauded as a…

The American Institute of CPAs named Gary Previts, Distinguished University Professor, E. Mandell de Windt Professor in Enterprise and Leadership Development, and chair and professor of Accountancy, among the “125 People of Impact in Accounting” in a special 125-year anniversary issue of the…

After years of traveling to Japan and studying its culture, economics major Alex Warofka soon will become part of it. The graduating senior is moving to Japan this fall to pursue research as a Fulbright scholar. Through his yearlong Fulbright opportunity, Warofka will combine his long-held…

For the second year in a row, Case Western Reserve University received the Commission on Economic Inclusion’s Best in Class for Workforce Diversity award in the nonprofit sector. The commission is a program of the Greater Cleveland Partnership. Marilyn Mobley, the vice president for inclusion,…

The journal Academy of Management Perspectives named Scott Shane, the A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, as the 47th most influential scholar in the field of management. The study looked at number of citations, which is one of the strongest measures of impact inside the…

The National Association of Professional Women has named Jane Timmons-Mitchell its Professional Woman of the Year in psychology for the state of Ohio for 2012-2013. Timmons-Mitchell is a senior research associate for The Dr. Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Center For Violence Prevention, Research and…