Awards

Catherine Jayapandian, senior research associate in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), was awarded a one-year $57,500 Career Enhancement Award from the Neptune Kidney Consortium. Jayapandian received the award for her project titled “Computational Pathology-b...

Pranjal Vaidya, a PhD student in biomedical engineering and at the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded the ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowship. This fellowship program targets women or students from racial or ethnic backgrounds that have not tra...

Maggie Popkin, the Robson Junior Professor and associate professor in the Department of Art History and Art, has won a 2020–21 Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize, making her the first faculty member from Case Western Reserve University to do so. These highly competitive fellowships support advanced independ...

Faculty and students associated with the Solar Durability and Lifetime Extension (SDLE) Research Center at Case Western Reserve University received four poster awards for their presentations at the 2020 Photovoltaic Reliability Workshop. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab ...

Master of Business Administration candidate Yuxin Fan and Master of Science in Management (MSM)-Finance candidates Jiaxuan Li, Yilin Zhang and Anqi Lu were awarded second place in an operations competition hosted by MIT Sloan School's Operations Management Club. All four team members are graduate st...

Zahin Islam, Daniel Shao and Evan Vesper, all undergraduates, were recently selected as Goldwater Scholarship recipients. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program awarded 396 scholarships in 2020, from a pool of 1,343 undergraduates nominated by 461 institutions. The prog...

Two teams from the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) were recently awarded I-Corps 2020 grants. Rakesh Shiradkar, research assistant professor, Amogh Hiremath, PhD candidate, and Rob Toth, CCIPD alumnus, were awarded a grant for their AI prostate cancer diagnosi...

Mark Hornyak, an undergraduate student taking Japanese classes, competed in the 2020 Ohio Japanese Speech Contest online April 5. Hornyak won first place in the college-level category with his speech titled “Military Rations: The Taste of a Nation.” Undergraduate students Yinfeng Xia and Yuhan Xia ...

Researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering were recently awarded patents related to their work at the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics. The following patents were awarded. “Predicting biochemical recurrence in pre-treatment prostate magnetic resonance imagi...

Christiane Chammas, a senior dental/DMD-MPH student at the School of Dental Medicine won first place in the Annual Pre-Doctoral Dental Student Merit Award for Outstanding Achievement in Community Dentistry, sponsored by the American Association of Public Health Dentistry. Each U.S. dental school is ...