Awards

Burcu Gurkan among four Case School of Engineering winners of prestigious National Science Foundation award to support further fundamental research The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Case Western Reserve University scientist Burcu Gurkan a five-year, $550,000 grant to continue her…

In 2018, eight years after starting his lab, Paul Tesar was formally asked about his mentoring philosophy for the first time. He’d been nominated for a mentorship award and, as a finalist, had to answer questions about his mentorship style and strategy. The problem was Tesar never spent time…

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) received a $250,000 gift from brothers Lorne and Eric Novick to fund a cutting-edge, collaborative research study. The Andrew Novick Study on Artificial Intelligence and Epigenomics for Cancer Disparities, which honors the Novicks’ late father, pairs…

Alp Sehirlioglu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, received the U.S-Israel Binational Science Foundation Research Award earlier this month. The topic of research is “Depolarizing ferroelectrics at the nanoscale for augmenting macroscale piezoelectricity at a broad…

Pallavi Tiwari, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, received the Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.  The award is “presented in recognition of significant and innovative technical contributions in imaging informatics to someone whose…

Case Western Reserve University researchers recently participated in the fourth International Symposium on Polybenzoxazines (organized in Luxembourg), capturing honors during the event. Hatsuo Ishida, the Peter A. Asseff, PhD Professor of Organic Chemistry, earned the Lifetime Contribution Award…

Each year, the Master of Public Health program honors students with annual awards to recognize the hard work and diligence students have shown. While the traditional end-of-the-year party was not possible this year, program leaders wanted to acknowledge students, especially under the difficult…

Zoe Sekyonda, a second-year student pursuing her PhD in biomedical engineering, was among a team of students who captured second-place honors in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) Hope for Sickle Cell Disease Challenge. Also on the team were Cleveland Institute of Art students…

The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce winners of the 2021 Think Big Leadership Awards. “I am genuinely amazed at the creative, boundary-pushing and community-focused work happening all over our campus, particularly during a year of so much unrest and uncertainty,” said Provost and…

The National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation program accepted a proposal by Yinghui Wu, assistant professor of computer and data sciences, and Alp Sehirlioglu, associate professor of materials science and engineering. Their proposal is titled…