Awards

Support of Undergraduate Research & Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) has announced the winners of the Intersections: SOURCE Poster Award competition held in December. Arts poster competition First place: Merit Glover, “Dramatizing America’s National Parks.” Faculty mentor: David Vegh, Department of Th...

Support of Undergraduate Research & Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) and the Office of Research Administration have announced the list of fall 2017 awardees for the certificate in Responsible Conduct of Research for undergraduates. The awardees are: Hobart (Zehao) Chen Yinan (Eana) Cheng Praanjal...

John Tomko learned how to code on a TI-84 calculator at the urging of a high school math teacher. Tomko took on the challenge—and now, the rudimentary programming method seems simple to Tomko, having earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and nearing completion of the Master of Engineeri...

The Advincula Research Group, led by Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering Rigoberto Advincula, received new funding totaling $180,000 from Honeywell–Kansas City National Security Campus. The funding is for 3-D printing of high-performance polymer materials in additive manufacturing. ...

Angela Ciccia, associate professor of communication sciences, won the 2017 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Distinguished Member Award. The award honors an ACRM member who has made significant contributions to the organization as a chair of a committee, task force, interdisciplin...

As part of Educational Services for Students Disability Resources’ recognition of October as Disability Awareness Month, the office created the Outstanding Faculty Advocate Award. Students registered with the office were asked to nominate faculty members who were exceptional advocates for students w...

Zhe Ren and Aaron Washburn, graduate students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, won first- and second-place poster awards at the 29th American Society for Metals (ASM)-Heat Treating Conference in Columbus in October. Ren’s first-place poster was on “Surface Treatment of Co─Cr ...

The Case Western Reserve University Technology and Validation Start-Up Fund Program (CTP) recently selected four projects for its third funding round. CTP is awarded by the Ohio Third Frontier and managed through the CWRU Technology Transfer Office. The project aims to accelerate and fund the trans...

David Schiraldi, chair of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering and the Peter A. Asseff Professor, was honored with the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Division Distinguished Service Award. For the past two decades, Schiraldi has played an important role in th...

The Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority Police Department selected Mark Singer, the Leonard W. Mayo Professor in Family and Child Welfare, for its Citizen’s Award. Singer also is the deputy director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education. Annually, the award is given...