Awards

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Olabimpe A. Olayiwola, a research assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received a Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research Award from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in support of…

Awarded annually, the SAGES University Seminar Essay Awards highlight the best student writing produced in SAGES University Seminars each year. SAGES and the Writing Program selected four writers from among more than 40 nominations across over 100 seminars to receive the prize for the academic…

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Tuberculosis Trials Consortium awarded its 2020 Sandman-Tapy Award to the Uganda-CWRU Research Collaboration site for its “significant and inspiring contributions” to the work of the consortium. The Uganda-CWRU Research Collaboration team was…