Awards

The Case Kismat Fusion Dance Team raised $2,800 for the Women In Need organization, which assists women in Nagpur, India, facing daily challenges like poverty, abuse, disease and starvation. This fundraising effort was a part of a competition between nine university dance teams. For their fundraisi...

Daniel Scherson, the Frank Hovorka Professor of Chemistry and director of the Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences, was awarded the Edward W. Morley Medal by the American Chemical Society’s Cleveland Section. The award will be presented at a banquet in May, at which time Scherson wil...

LeVar Burton Photo credit: 1ShotbyJules LeVar Burton, a celebrated American actor, director, producer and writer for more than 40 years, is adding another accolade—this one for his tireless, decades-long dedication to children’s literacy and AIDS research and treatment. This fall, the Inamori I...

Case Western Reserve University’s South Asian fusion a cappella team, Dhamakapella, was runner-up in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) Midwest Quarterfinal, qualifying the group to advance to the Midwest Semifinal. In addition, Dhamakapella's beatboxer, Lewis Orr, was ...

Cleveland’s baroque orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, recently won a Grammy Award. Julie Andrijeski, senior instructor of music and artistic coordinator of historical performance ensembles, is a performer with the group. One of the featured tracks on the album, titled “Songs of Orpheus,” is a solo violin s...

The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) named Kelvin Smith Library the university recipient of the 2019 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. Sponsored by ACRL and GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO, the award recognizes the staff of a university library for programs that deliver exe...

"Living the Classical Life," an online series produced by Jutta Ittner, associate professor of German, was chosen by Classical Post as the 2018 Most Innovative Presenter: Media. The series began with a short documentary project in 2012 to aid the career of Zsolt Bognár, a graduate of the Master of P...

Elina Gertsman, professor of art history and art, and her colleague Vincent Debiais, from École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris, received a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The grant will be used to organize an international symposium at Princeton University titled...

A book by Eva Kahana, Distinguished University Professor of sociology and the Pierce T. and Elizabeth D. Robson Professor of the Humanities, won an Outstanding Academic Title recognition from Choice, the publishing unit for a division of the American Library Association. Kahana co-authored the volu...

Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III’s book Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico was recently recognized by the Latin American Studies Association. The association named the book the recipient of the 2019 Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History. ...