Awards

The French-American Chamber of Commerce recognized Case Western Reserve University’s new French for Professional Skills Center with a 2019 “Innovation without Borders” award for outstanding project development in French-American markets. Fabienne Pizot-Haymore, director of the French for Professio...

Two dental students won awards at the National Oral Health Conference (NOHC) in Memphis last month. The Annual Predoctoral Dental Student Merit Award for Outstanding Achievement in Community Dentistry is sponsored by the American Association of Public Health Dentistry. Each dental school is eligib...

The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management announced its 2019 Flourish Prize honorees May 6–10 during a week-long virtual celebration. The 17 award winners, one for each of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, were announced vi...

Annually, the Case Western Reserve University Office for Energy & Sustainability honors members of the campus community with Sustainability Champion Awards. Each year, at least one student (two were recognized this year), one staff member and one faculty member receive an award for working hard to m...

Each year, the Department of English, SAGES and the Writing Program host the Writing Program Award Ceremony to honor award-winning teachers and students at the end of the year. The celebration is a recognition of Case Western Reserve University writing faculty, which includes full- and part-time le...

Longtime Case Western Reserve theoretical physicist also has a lyrical side Philip Taylor’s legacy at Case Western Reserve University would be secure even if only reckoned by sheer numbers: The award-winning renowned scientist-researcher has been on the faculty for 55 years—for more than a quarter ...

For most of her time as a mathematics undergraduate at Idaho State University, Jenny Hawkins was a shy student with an aversion to talking to her professors as strong as her determination to earn straight A's in their classes. Finally, in her junior year, a professor’s effort to ease Hawkins’ core...

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professor Harold Connamacher wins Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Harold Connamacher has been called a “master teacher” by one colleague, a professor with “lifelong impact” by another, and simply “the most approachable professor I ev...

The business world’s loss has been a significant gain for students at Case Western Reserve University and the School of Medicine. Monica Gerrek, assistant professor of bioethics, had taken a philosophy course as an undergraduate but opted for the ostensibly safer choice of pursuing a business degre...

When Brian Gran began his career in academia nearly 20 years ago, “collaboration” wasn’t as common a term or practice as it is today. But his areas of expertise—law and society, human rights and health policy—couldn’t fit into a single discipline if they were to be taught effectively, Gran said. In...