Awards

Andrea Milne, lecturer in history and SAGES teaching fellow, understands how a mentor can change a young student’s life. While a freshman at Bryn Mawr College, Milne got “stuck” in a U.S. history course due to scheduling issues. She had no plans to study history in college, but her professor changed...

Years ago, Karen Potter (GRS ’89), professor and chair of the Department of Dance, observed a colleague providing feedback to a student. The exchange was quiet and private so that only the student could hear the instructor’s words of criticism or praise. Potter was so impressed by what she observed...

At first blush, the word that Tim Goler uses to describe his mentor, Eva Kahana—as “family”—would seem to belie their dissimilar backgrounds. Kahana is a Hungarian Jewish refugee who survived Nazi occupation, the Holocaust and a brutal Communist rule in her native country to become a sociology scho...

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve, is among the leading global authorities in medical-image analysis, computational pathology and artificial intelligence in precision medicine. But Madabhushi, director of the Center for Computational ...

Annually, the Case Western Reserve University Office of Energy & Sustainability takes nominations for the Sustainability Champion awards to honor members of the CWRU community who are working hard on sustainability and climate topics. The following individuals were selected for awards this year: Ma...

Diana Driscoll likes to ask her students, “Why do we care?” The inspiration for that challenge came from a former student who ended each class by asking her that same question. “He was not being disrespectful,” she said. “He really wanted to understand the connection between physics and real life....

The Student Leadership Awards were created by Dorothy Pijan in 1986 to recognize and honor Case Western Reserve University's outstanding undergraduate student leaders. Pijan worked at CWRU as the director of Thwing Center and Student Activities from 1982 to 2003. Pijan was a well-respected and natio...

The annual Writing Program Awards honor excellence in the teaching of writing. The award ceremony, like all spring semester celebrations, was canceled, but the honorees are being acknowledged nonetheless. This year, each faculty recipient has shared in their own words an aspect of their philosophy o...

The American Academy of PAs selected the Case Western Reserve University Charles L. Hudson Society for its 2020 Outstanding Student Society honor. The organization was recognized for “service to the profession in public education and advocacy, public service and outreach, promotion of diversity, an...

Each year, Kelvin Smith Library Student Book Collecting Contest puts a spotlight on collections entrants have assembled to match their interests and passions.While there will not be an opportunity to present the awards at a public event as planned, the winners will be recognized and rewarded and wil...