Awards

Shirley Moore can’t recall a time in her life, even as a girl on the family’s Ashtabula, Ohio, dairy farm, when she didn’t want to be a nurse, to care for others. But Moore, the Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing and associate dean for research at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nu...

Proteins, an indispensable component orchestrating crucial bodily functions from the heartbeat to digestion, have been long studied. But a central mystery remains: How exactly do they carry out their life-maintaining activities? Through groundbreaking research in the structure and dynamics of prote...

Hearing a note or chord played perfectly in tune still has the power to send shivers through Ross W. Duffin. “It’s transcendent,” said Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, “precisely because it is such a rare achievement.” Duffin’s life in music could be defined the same way. Ross Du...

Ya-Ting Liao, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, won a joint award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to conduct flame experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). The funding is part of $900,0...

Crain’s Cleveland Business named Vice President for Human Resources Carolyn Gregory a finalist for HR executive of the year in the nonprofit category, as part of the publication's 2017 Archer Awards. In naming her a finalist, the publication cited multiple initiatives led by Gregory, including the ...

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded U.S. patent 9,721,338 titled “Method and Apparatus for Segmentation and Registration of Longitudinal Images.” The described inven...

Sierra Magazine named Case Western Reserve University a “Cool School,” for the university’s sustainability programs. Case Western Reserve was ranked 94 out of 239. The magazine is the official publication of the Sierra Club. In ranking the schools, the magazine considered a variety of criteria whe...

The Case Western Reserve University Technology and Validation Start-Up Fund Program (CTP) recently announced the recipients of its second funding round of 2017. CTP is awarded by the Ohio Third Frontier and managed through the CWRU Technology Transfer Office. The program aims to accelerate and fund...

Julie Renner, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was awarded an ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship. The fellowship program is a partnership between the Electrochemical Society (ECS) and Toyota Research Institute of North America. Renner is one of j...

Three of the 25 winners of this year's Infosys Foundation Infy Maker Awards are CWRU LaunchNet clients. Case Western Reserve University’s honorees were: Matthew Campagna, a rising junior studying computer engineering, of Reflexion Interactive Technologies LLC; Pavel Galchenko, a rising junior ...