Awards
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
June 14, 2011
Cleveland Heights High School inducted Gladys Haddad, adjunct professor of American studies, into its Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. A Heights High student committee selected Haddad and other inductees from a list of nominees from the general public with only their achievements listed, not…
June 14, 2011
Weatherhead School of Management and Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) hosted the second annual Turning Designs into Businesses competition this spring, in which students from the two schools create a business plan for a new product. The winning team, composed of Tim Anderson (MGT ’11), Cara Gilmore…
June 13, 2011
The 2011 Mandel Center Teaching Award was presented to adjunct instructor Nancy Osgood at this year’s graduation ceremony. Nancy Osgood taught MAND 432, Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations, in the fall of 2010. “The opportunity to play a role in the development of the next generation of…
June 13, 2011
The Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) named the recipients of CTSC Annual Pilot Grant Funding. The individuals earning funding and their areas of study are: Thomas Chelimsky, School of Medicine professor of neurology and director of autonomic disorders at University Hospitals…