Awards

On April 8, the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship hosted the 2025 Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition at Sears think[box]. The competition challenged participants to share ideas across four areas: an idea track, research track, social impact track, and venture track. Krupa Venkatesan and…

Robert Gao, the Cady Staley Professor of Engineering and chair of Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2025 SME Gold Medal in recognition of outstanding service to the manufacturing engineering profession in technical…

CWRU Math Club brought one team of three students to compete at the Tri-Section MAA Meeting this month and scored a 21/90 on the undergraduate mathematics competition, putting the club in second place within the Ohio teams. They tied with John Carroll University, while Cleveland State University…

After playing just four regular season matches at The Ohio State University and University of Pittsburgh, the Case Western Reserve Team Handball Club ended with a 2 win and 2 loss record. The team traveled to the University of Kentucky for the Trailblazer Conference Championships from March 1-2.…

The Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS), a nonprofit membership association of translational scientists from the nation’s leading academic medical centers, honored its Translational Science Award recipients at Translational Science 2025. At this event, Umut Gurkan received…

Debra Beight, a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, was awarded one of only seven non-EU positions for the 2025 Medical Humanities International PhD School at Durham University in the United Kingdom. The PhD School, hosted by the Institute for Medical…

This year, six Case Western Reserve University students participated in the annual International Latin Translation Exam administered by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Three of the students won prizes. Luke Mosca won a cash prize ($100) at the Intermediate Level, the…

Jocelyn Schechter, a BS/MS student in aerospace engineering, was selected for the Ohio Space Grant Consortium Master’s Fellowship, which is administered by NASA. Awards to master’s students for the academic year are $23,400 in addition to tuition waivers. Fellows complete a STEM-related research…

David J. Birnkrant, professor emeritus of pediatrics at the School of Medicine, was chosen to give an honorary lecture at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians in Boston. The Margaret Pfrommer Endowed Memorial Lecture in Home-Based Mechanical Ventilation honors “a clinician…

Lt. Sarah Shendy of the Case Western Reserve University Division of Public Safety was one of 10 people named as "Best of Arab Americans 2024" by the Arab Americans of Cleveland Young Professionals Network. Lt. Shendy is responsible for training and professional standards for police,…