Awards
July 11, 2011
The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce awarded Melissa Knothe Tate, professor of biomedical engineering, a $25,000 Chairmen's Distinguished Life Sciences Scientist Award. Knothe Tate is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of orthopaedic mechano...
July 07, 2011
May L. Wykle, the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor and the dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, will join a distinguished group of peers in July to be inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.
She is amo...
July 07, 2011
Peter Shulman, assistant professor of history, received the 2011 Legislative Archives Research Fellowship. Shulman’s research will expand on his 2007 dissertation, “Empire of Energy: War, Environment and Geopolitics before the Age of Oil,” and will focus on a reinterpretation of 19th and early 20th ...
July 07, 2011
Case Western Reserve University took home two awards at Team Northeast Ohio’s Fifth Annual Economic Development Plus Awards Dinner on June 30. In the “Foreign Investment” category, the university, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and BioEnterprise were honored for the second year in a row es...
June 30, 2011
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $286,000 to Case Western Reserve University for “An Innovative Microfabricated Ionic Wind Pump Array for Thermal Management Applications.” Principal investigators on the project are Norman Tien, dean and Nord Professor of Engineering at Case School of En...
June 29, 2011
Emeritus statistics professor Joe Sedransk will be honored at the 2011 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) in Miami July 31-Aug. 4. Two sessions will be held in his honor: “Surveys, Bayesian Modeling and the Interconnections” and “Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Finite Populations.” Sedransk’s areas...
June 23, 2011
LaShanda Korley, Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Case School of Engineering, was one of 18 faculty members from around the world to become part of the 43rd class of DuPont Young Professors. The DuPont Young Professor program provides start-up assistance to promising young and untenured...
June 22, 2011
Swarup Bhunia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, received a five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant worth nearly $462,000. The award is given to an investigator to pursue research in an emerging area, which Bhunia will d...
June 22, 2011
The Institute of Navigation announced that Case Western Reserve University won top prize at the 8th Annual 2011 Robotic Lawn Mower Competition June 2-4 at Siebenthaler’s Beaver Valley Garden Center in Dayton.
Sponsored by the Institute of Navigation Satellite Division and the Air Force Research Lab...
June 20, 2011
Physics graduate student Joel Pendery received a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French government to work with Emmanuelle Lacaze on a project at Université Pierre et Marie Curie. In November, Pendery will begin the 10-month fellowship, where he will work on a collaborative project on the nanoscop...