Awards
 July 17, 2020
   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… 
 
 July 17, 2020
   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… 
 
 July 17, 2020
   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… 
 
 July 17, 2020
   Heidi Gullett, associate professor in the School of Medicine, received the Family Physician of the Year Award from the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP). The honor is bestowed upon an individual noted for high professional standards, high-quality and family-centered continuing health care,… 
 
 July 16, 2020
   Every day, Case Western Reserve University students transcend limitations as they make significant contributions toward impactful research. Haojia Li, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering, is no exception. Crain’s Cleveland Business… 
 
 June 26, 2020
   The CWRU Motorsports Team competed and placed in three virtual events organized to replace in-person SAE Mini Baja events that could not be held this year because of the global pandemic. Team members Wyatt Slifcak and Leland Frantz developed the sales plan for the events and made a presentation in… 
 
 June 26, 2020
   Bethany Kersten, a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, is Case Western Reserve University’s first recipient of a new graduate research fellowship through the Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) Integrated University Program (IUP). CWRU was… 
 
 June 26, 2020
   The Office of Undergraduate Studies (UGS) recently extended honored undergraduate recipients of various academic awards. Academic achievements of individual students have traditionally been recognized at two academic awards assemblies each spring, one for continuing students and one for graduating… 
 
 June 26, 2020
   CWRU engineering students Aaron Mann, Kevin Pataroque, and Peter Thompson won first prize in the Northeast Section of the Ohio Water Environment Association Student Design Competition for their design of an upgraded biosolids treatment process for the Upper Tuscarawas Water Reclamation… 
 
 June 26, 2020
   Rakesh Shiradkar and his research team received one of seven annual pilot awards supported by the Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC). Shiradkar is a research assistant professor in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and Biomedical Engineering.…