Awards

As an undergraduate engineering student, Larry Sears had to go to his Cleveland Heights basement when he wanted to tinker. Today, thanks in part to his leadership and generosity, students across the campus can create everything from jewelry to medical diagnostic devices—whether as a hobby or the…

Jane W. Kessler wins 2018 Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize It was the 1940s, a time when women rarely questioned the establishment. But Jane W. Kessler, whose lifetime of service as a clinician, scholar, teacher and community leader has knitted a rich mosaic, had the guts to challenge the…

Film studies professor Robert Spadoni wins Wittke Award for undergraduate teaching As a teaching assistant earning his PhD at the University of Chicago, Robert Spadoni was unexpectedly asked to lead the class in the professor’s absence. “It was my first real taste of teaching,” he said, “and I…

Lauren Calandruccio becomes first concurrent winner of Jackson and Wittke awards This January, Lauren Calandruccio dropped everything to drive six hours to Chicago to be with a student whose father passed away there after a long battle with cancer. “She needed someone there,” said Calandruccio,…

School of Medicine’s Drew Adams earns Jackson Award for undergraduate mentoring Whether they need help with experiments, life or navigating their career paths, students in Drew Adams’ lab know they can count on him for guidance. The personal interest Adams takes in his students has earned him the…

The Vice President for Research and Technology Management held a campuswide internal grant competition to promote research, scholarship and creative endeavors. Intended to foster the incubation of new ideas and their cultivation for production of knowledge, this program provides faculty the…

Madeleine Harris, Aaron Mann, Nicholas Merchant-Wells and Jack Worsham, all civil engineering undergraduate students, won first prize in the Ohio Water Environment Association (OWEA) 2018 Student Design Competition. They were mentored by Kurt Rhoads, assistant professor of civil engineering. Their…

The International Center for Autism Research and Education has received $38,000 from Eastlake Middle School over the past eight years, as the school’s student council regularly hosts fundraising dances for the center. This year, David E. Biegel, the Henry L. Zucker Professor of Social Work…

Three Case Western Reserve University students and their faculty advisor received awards for their research poster and paper at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2018 Space and Earth Conference. The research poster created by undergraduate student Xiyu Zhang and co-authored by PhD candidate…

Two teams of Case Western Reserve University students were the top two competitors in the Collegiate Division at the second annual Medical Capital Innovation Competition. RADIOME, a startup which seeks to predict whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy will benefit cancer patients to reduce ineffective…