Awards

CWRUbotix, Case Western Reserve University’s robotics team, competed in the 22nd annual MATE ROV World Championship, hosted in Kingsport, Tennessee, in June. In this competition, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are deployed underwater to perform various tasks related to ocean observation and devel...

In basketball, to shoot the perfect free throw, train your eye on the rim. In baseball, for the perfect pitch, look at the catcher's mitt. So says the "quiet eye" technique, which calls on a period of extended visual attention to improve coordination and performance. A research-backed approach for ...

Of the 4.7 million nurses in the United States, only 3,000 hold the distinction of membership in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), an organization representing the field’s most accomplished leaders in policy, research, administration, practice, and academia. More selective still is the academ...

Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, can add another prestigious title to his distinguished career. The National Association of Social Workers Foundation (NASWF) has named Voisin a Social Work Pioneer, among ...

Reda Riffi, a first-generation student at Case Western Reserve University, was selected to participate in the BioMed Amgen Scholars Program at Yale University this summer. Riffi is majoring in neuroscience and conducts research at CWRU in the Xiong Lab. The BioMed Amgen Scholars Program is a highly...

The Case Western Reserve University Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) recently received a five-year renewal of its full accreditation status from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP), an independent, non-profit accrediting body. AAHRPP, seen as...

Desiree Mae Prado, a PhD student in chemistry, was recently selected to join a global cohort of early career researchers in the 2024 Summer Summit Cohort at The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy & Society at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Later this month, Prado and other emerging leaders ...

The American Diabetes Association - Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Interest Group recently named Armando Vergara-Martel, research assistant in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the School of Medicine, a winner of its Early Career Abstract Award. The title of Vergara-Martel’s abstract is...

The Ohio State Association of Nurse Anesthetist recently named Ashley Showers, assistant director of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation/Frances Payne Bolton Nurse Anesthesia Program, the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist of the Year. The award is given to a certified registered nurse anestheti...

No matter their focus areas, young researchers tend to aspire to have their efforts noticed. For three Case Western Reserve University students receiving the 2024 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the prestigious award serves as all the validation they need. Among the 437 honorees this year, CWRU stud...