Awards

Fangfang Wang, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Pharmacology, was recently awarded an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship. Over three years, Wang will study 53BP1 phase separation in genome stability and cancer. Wang is mentored by Youwei Zhang, professor in the…

Case Western Reserve University’s network of libraries has earned the 2024 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) award from Insight into Diversity magazine—recognizing efforts at Kelvin Smith Library, The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library, Lillian and Milford Harris Library, Cleveland…

Erin Ogden, a project manager at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN), was honored with the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year Award for 2024 by the Ohio Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Since 2022, Ogden has been an integral part of the PRCHN, where she works on…

Angela Clark-Taylor, executive director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, recently received the Mentorship Award from the National Women's Studies Association Women's Centers Committee. This award honors the critically important role that mentors play within women’s and gender equity…

Chris Flask, professor of radiology, biomedical engineering and pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was one of 59 investigators selected to receive the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research 2023 Distinguished Investigator Award. Flask is also…

JungA "Alexa" Woo, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was awarded the Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award by the Society for Neuroscience in November. The award recognizes her contribution to the advancement of…

Jeesoo Jeon, a doctoral candidate at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was recently honored for her abstract at the Global Flourishing Conference. Scoring among the top 10 submissions, her abstract was titled “Household Challenges and Child flourishing:…

Michael Scharf and Jessica Berg Case Western Reserve University School of Law Co-Deans Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf have been selected as the recipients of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation’s 2024 Richard W. Pogue Award for Leadership and Engagement. This award was first presented…

The Group of Advancement for Doctoral Education (GADE) recently awarded Laura Voith, associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, the 2024 Donna Harrington Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring of Doctoral Students. Established in 2017, this…

The Case Western Reserve University chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) recently attended SpaceVision, a space-centric conference held in Washington DC. CWRU students had the opportunity to hear about a wide variety of topics from across the aerospace field,…