Awards
November 10, 2011
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…
November 03, 2011
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…
November 03, 2011
Michael Pollino, assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, recently secured a $599,603 grant from the National Science Foundation—a major accomplishment for faculty at the assistant professor level—for the project “NEESR: Seismic Rehabilitation of Substandard Building Structures…
November 01, 2011
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…
October 28, 2011
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…
October 11, 2011
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…
October 11, 2011
Researchers from the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Center at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences received a $200,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and matching contributions from The Cleveland Foundation, Saint Luke’s Foundation and Sisters of Charity Foundation, for a…
October 05, 2011
The Alumni Association of Case Western Reserve University will present awards to alumni and friends during the Alumni Luncheon to be held Friday, Oct. 14, at 11:30 a.m. in Horsburgh Gym. Theodore J. Castele (ADL ’51, MED ’57) will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award, which recognizes a graduate…
October 03, 2011
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awarded a $750,000 grant to the Myelin Repair Foundation to fund myelin repair studies with human brain cells for the development of new treatments for multiple sclerosis. The funds will support research conducted by Paul Tesar, assistant professor of genetics, who…
October 03, 2011
Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University Center for Health Care Research and Policy at MetroHealth received a four-year $1.95 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to create a free Health Risk Appraisal tool. A Health Risk Appraisal can be an important tool in…