Awards

For the third consecutive year, Weatherhead School of Management dominated the ACG Cup Competition, this year sweeping the entire event. The ACG Cup is a unique case study competition designed to give students from leading business programs experience and insight into mergers and acquisitions, inve...

Program supports outstanding women and underrepresented individuals pursuing careers in scientific research Marissa Scavuzzo studies the nervous system—the one inside your gut. Using lab-grown organs to mimic the human intestine, she is mapping the diversity of support cells called “glia.” Glia in ...

To be presented with Distinguished Scientist Award – Translational Domain during ACC’s 70th Annual Scientific Session & Expo Sanjay Rajagopalan Sanjay Rajagopalan has been awarded the 2021 Distinguished Scientist Award – Translational Domain by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) for his con...

Lung research emphasized during COVID-19 pandemic; researcher Mehdi Alilou to use artificial intelligence to help predict response to lung cancer therapies Mehdi Alilou, research assistant professor of biomedical engineering and a researcher in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized...

Case Western Reserve University chemical engineer and researcher Rohan Akolkar has been elected as a Senior Member of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Akolkar is the Milton and Tamar Maltz Professor of Energy Innovation and Ohio Eminent Scholar in Advanced Energy Research in the Case School...

The Medical Student Pride Alliance, a network of more than 60 LGBTQ+ student organizations at medical schools across the country, has awarded Case Med Pride its 2021 Chapter of the Year Award. Under the leadership of co-presidents Lloyd Chen and Garrett Weskamp, Case Med Pride focuses on advocacy, ...

Professor Bryan Adamson, the associate dean for diversity and inclusion at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, was selected as the Institutional Advocate of the Year by the Western Region Black Law Students Association (WRBLSA). Adamson, a 1990 graduate of CWRU School of Law, is the awa...

Stephanie Becker, digital collections manager at the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship; Nora Blackman, archivist, and Anne Kumer, electronic resources metadata librarian, received an LSTA Metadata Mini-Grant from the State Library of Ohio, in conjunction with the Ohio Digital Network. The gran...

Burcu Gurkan, the Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, was selected as a recipient of the Scialog: Negative Emissions Science (NES) Collaborative Award in the amount of $55,000. Gurkan was named a Fellow for Scialog, a group of about 50 promising early-career scientists ta...

Ran An, a senior research associate in the lab of Umut Gurkan—the Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering—received a grant from the Center for Advancing Point of Care Technologies in Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Disorders (CAPCaT). The one-year $1...