Awards
July 14, 2011
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…
July 13, 2011
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:…
July 12, 2011
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,…
July 11, 2011
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…