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Eleven staff members earn CAPS certificates in financial management
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,…
University Farm earns Crain’s Emerald Award for outstanding sustainability program
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…
Masahiro Morikawa to receive Family Medicine Educator of the Year Award
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.
Anthropology PhD student Stephanie McClure earns two prestigious fellowships
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…
Engineering professors to be awarded $1.1 million NSF grant to create multifunctional robots
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:…
Four engineering professors receive $600,000 NSF grant for renewable resources
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,…
Robert Binstock receives award from Gerontological Society of America
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…
Melissa Knothe Tate wins $25,000 Distinguished Life Sciences Scientist award
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…
Nursing Dean May Wykle to be inducted into international hall of fame for nurse researchers
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…
Peter Shulman named first recipient of Legislative Archives Fellowship
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…