Awards

Rockwell Automation named senior Stephen Hatch one of its three Student Associate Innovation Award winners. Hatch, a computer engineering major, is doing a co-op at Rockwell Automation, during which he developed an automated way to compare icons for several hundred devices against a known baseline. ...

At the end of every summer, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences staff members hold an annual luncheon and honor fellow staff members with MSASSy Awards for their hard work and dedication to the school. This year, awards went to: Valerie Beard, receptionist Michael Brown, department assistant...

Eva Kahana, Robson Professor of Sociology, Humanities, Applied Social Science, Nursing and Medicine and director of the Elderly Care Research Center, recently was selected as the 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Career Contribution Award of the Gerontological Society of America. They will present...

On July 15, 11 staff members received Certificates of Achievement in Financial Management as part of the Case Western Reserve University Administrative Professionals Series (CAPS) program. Recipients were: Nilda Baker, School of Medicine, Development & Alumni Relations; Christine Damukaitis, Genera...

Crain’s Cleveland Business recently named the Case Western Reserve University Farm as a Crain’s Emerald Award honoree. The awards recognize outstanding Northeast Ohio companies, organizations and leaders that have successfully implemented and benefited from sustainable initiatives. Finalists and hon...

Masahiro Morikawa, associate professor of family medicine, will receive the 2011 Family Medicine Educator of the Year Award from the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians during the annual meeting August 6 in Dublin, Ohio....

Stephanie McClure, a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology, supervised by assistant professor Eileen Anderson-Fye, has been awarded two highly competitive and prestigious fellowships for the 2011-12 academic year: the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and the Spencer Foundation Di...

Roger Quinn, Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering, and Hillel Chiel, professor of biology, neurosciences and biomedical engineering, received a National Science Foundation award with an intended amount of nearly $1.1 million (more than $270,000 has been awarded to date). The project, “RI: Me...

Gary Wnek, the Joseph F. Toot Jr. Professor of Engineering; Alexis Abramson, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; David Schiraldi, professor and chair of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering; and Bill Yu, associate professor of civil engineering, r...

Robert H. Binstock, Professor of Aging, Health, and Society, has been received the 2011 M. Powell Lawton Award from the Gerontological Society of America for “contributions from applied gerontological research that have benefited older people and their care.” A former president of the Gerontologica...