Awards

Choice magazine named history professor Miriam Levin’s book, Urban Modernity (MIT Press), as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011. Appearing annually in Choice’s January issue, this prestigious list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles and attracts attention from the…

Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing associate professor Mary Quinn Griffin’s book was named American Journal of Nursing's No. 3 Book of the Year for nursing education books. The book, A Nuts-and-Bolts Approach to Teaching Nursing, is now in its fourth edition from Springer Publishing. Quinn…

Chris Laszlo, associate professor of organizational behavior and faculty research director at the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, was named one of Trust Across America’s Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior. To be honored with this award, Laszlo first had to be nominated,…

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:…

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…

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…

Two teams of Case Western Reserve University School of Law students recently traveled to Lansing, Mich., to compete in a regional round of the New York City Bar Association’s National Moot Court Competition. The team of Sam Camardo, Elizabeth Lindberg and Rick Raley won both the Regional Champion…

In just a few weeks, Weatherhead School of Management adjunct professor Michael E. Goldberg will head to Vietnam, where he’ll begin a five-month stint teaching on a Fulbright award. Goldberg will teach entrepreneurial finance at Vietnam’s National Economics University in Hanoi, where he and his…

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…

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…