Awards

After 20 years in industry, Philip A. Cola pursued what he remembers as the “most difficult professional decision that I had to make in my life:” leaving his executive-level career in health care research to follow his passion to become a professor at his alma mater. Now Cola uses his teaching to…

The Center for Engineering Action, in collaboration with the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship, held their inaugural Pitch Competition in April. In total, eight teams from the ENGR 395 class participated, representing the Humanitarian Design Corps, Engineers Without Borders and Global Health…

Gary Yao was chosen as a 2020–21 recipient of the CWRU Endowed Robert L. Shurter Prize in the amount of $1,000. This prize is awarded to a junior or senior undergraduate student demonstrating outstanding achievement and leadership in extracurricular activities in each department at the Case School…

Kasey Pukys, a member of the Class of 2022 majoring in economics and international studies and minoring in Russian, received a highly competitive Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for summer 2021. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and administered by American Councils for International…

The Ohio Nurses Foundation announced on May 10 that a team led by Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University would lead a multi-university research project on moral injury in nursing. The…

The Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition (MPSC) took place in February. Five finalists, all including Case Western Reserve University students or alumni, pitched for a chance to win up to $25,000 and a spot in gBETA, a program of nationally-ranked start-up accelerator gener8tor. Companies…

The Student Leadership Awards were created by Dorothy Pijan in 1986 to recognize and honor Case Western Reserve University’s outstanding undergraduate student leaders. Pijan worked at CWRU as the director of Thwing Center and Student Activities from 1982 to 2003. Pijan was a well-respected and…

George S. Kamanda, a third-year law student at Case Western Reserve University, was named the recipient of the 2021 Wong Moss Outstanding Alumni Award by his undergraduate alma mater, Delaware County Community College. He has been asked to deliver the commencement keynote address for the college’s…

Each year, the Sigma Sigma Sigma National Sorority recognizes one campus professional as the Fraternity and Sorority Advisor of the Year. Selected from more than 100 campuses with a Tri Sigma chapter across the country, Amie Jackson, associate director of Greek Life at Case Western Reserve…

The Herbold Scholars program, established by Case Western Reserve alumnus Bob Herbold and his family, aims to support outstanding CWRU undergrads who plan to stay at the university to pursue a master’s degree in the Department of Computer Science or an alternative program with a research focus in…