Awards

The Global Health Design Collaborative Pediatric Pulse Oximeter for Acute Diagnostics Team, made up of students from the Case School of Engineering, finished as one of 12 finalists in the Global Health Track at the 2020 Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition. The 14-person team designed a…

Justine Howe, associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, has been awarded a National Endowment of the Humanities summer stipend award to support her book project, Muslim Students and the Making of American Islam, 1963-present. The book will focus on the broad impact of the Muslim…

Researchers from the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, including Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, Satish Viswanath, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, Pallavi Tiwari, assistant professor of biomedical engineering,…

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…