Awards

The Norwegian Nobel Committee today named Case Western Reserve University's 2014 Inamori Ethics Prize honoree Denis Mukwege one of two recipients of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. Mukwege, a gynecological surgeon, has braved attacks on his life to treat and draw global attention to the brutal sexual v...

For the seventh consecutive year, Case Western Reserve University is the recipient of the national Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. As a recipient of the annual HEED Award—a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that dem...

Students in the Learning Streams International program holding Flags of Unity, Faith, Discipline and Tolerance. Over the summer, students from the Punjab province in Pakistan worked alongside local high school students to investigate important local, regional and international water-related issues....

At the 35th annual Meeting of the Ohio Dermatological Association (ODA), a group of researchers from the School of Medicine presented their poster among groups from other dermatological schools in Ohio. Their research poster, titled "Disparities and Trends in the Characteristics of Eccrine Malignanc...

Researchers from the Center of Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a U.S. patent titled "Entropy-based radiogenomic descriptions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for molecular characterization of breast cancer." The technology ...

Roman Sheremeta, assistant professor of economics, is the 2018 recipient of the Vernon L. Smith Ascending Scholar Prize from the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE). About the prize Named after Vernon L. Smith—a social scientist and 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economic...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced the winners of its 2018 Patents for Humanity program, an initiative promoting game-changing innovations to address long-standing development challenges. Umut Gurkan, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aer...

Farouk El-Baz to deliver free public lecture, meet with CWRU students, and participate in academic symposium panel discussion; Inamori Center to host its first essay contest related to the award, with cash prizes Farouk El-Baz For more than 50 years, Farouk El-Baz has paired his powerful imaginati...

A team of researchers from the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) and University Hospitals were awarded a patent by the U.S. government. Led by Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, the team was issued a patent in radiomics-ba...

Vice President for Research and Technology Management Suzanne Rivera won the 2018 Julia Jacobsen Distinguished Service Award from the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA). “This honor is especially meaningful because it comes from my trusted and valued peers in university ...