Awards

Robert Gao, chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was named one of the 20 most influential professors in smart manufacturing by SME, a nonprofit association that promotes and supports the manufacturing industry. The publication explained that Gao “developed a systematic…

Paul Tesar, a professor of genetics and genome sciences and the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine, is among 20 researchers nationally to receive a R35 Research Program Award (RPA) from the National…

Robert Savinell has held many titles in his professional career—professor, researcher, mentor and mentee. He served as dean of the Case School of Engineering from 2000 to 2007. In a career that’s spanned more than 40 years, he’s clearly had an impact.  According to Venkataramanan “Ragu”…

Though traditional commencement ceremonies won’t be held this weekend as originally planned, Case Western Reserve University will celebrate the accomplishments of its graduates with a virtual event Sunday, May 17. Undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students will receive their degrees in the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…