Awards

Caroline Kuntzman, the head delegate of the CWRU Model United Nations team recently won several awards at nationally ranked Model UN conferences. Representing Ibrahim Arkena in the Fall of the Songhai Empire at the Boston Area Regional Model United Nations Conference at Boston University, Kuntzman ...

Gideon Gywa, a postdoctoral scholar at Case Western Reserve University, was among 15 early-career researchers selected for a travel award to attend the Society of Systematic Biologists’ standalone conference in Mexico City this month. Gywa will present a poster titled “The evolution of eggshell typ...

Stephanie Langel, assistant professor in the Center for Global Health and Diseases and Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was awarded a Hypothesis Fund seed grant to investigate how antibodies in our respiratory tract impact transmission of SARS-CoV-2. SA...

Last semester, student sustainability ambassadors and the Case Western Reserve University Office of Energy and Sustainability hosted the 2022 CWRU Unplugged Contest, pitting residence halls against each other to see which could reduce electricity usage the most. The overall winner of the competitio...

Since joining Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in March of this year, Gelise Thomas has made an immediate impact by creating programs and leading initiatives to help researchers understand their roles in helping to close the gaps in health disparities. Thomas directs strategic di...

Case Western Reserve University’s chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) recently traveled to the University of Chicago to participate in the annual Spacevision conference. Members learned from expert panels on a range of space topics, including cosmology, space phy...

Four Case Western Reserve University undergraduate students presented at the Society for Developmental Biology’s 12th Structural Birth Defects Meeting, held Oct. 18–20 in Washington, DC. All four students received travel funding awards from Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (S...

Undergraduate student Nihal Manjila won the nationally competitive Lynn W. Turner Prize for best paper by an undergraduate member of Phi Alpha Theta for a paper titled “Substance of Joy: Serotonin Research at Cleveland Clinic, 1948-1968.” Jonathan Sadowsky, chair of the Department of History and th...

ASM International (the American Society for Metals) selected John Lewandowski, the Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering II, for its Albert Easton White Distinguished Teacher Award. According to ASM International, the award “recognizes unusually long and devoted service in teaching, as well ...

Annually, the Journal of Public Child Welfare issues an Article of the Year Award. Nancy Rolock's article “Tuning in to Teens (TINT) with Adoptive Parents and Guardians in the US: The Replication Phase of Intervention Research” was selected from the 2021 volume to receive Honorable Mention. Rolock i...