Awards

Tian Liu, assistant professor of pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was recently awarded a five-year, $630,595 National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant to study the role of the CHCHD10 protein in Alzheimer’s disease. This work is an example of the Cleveland…

The Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) has announced its 2024 Network Challenge Grantees, whose public interest technology (PIT) projects will advance equitable innovation in technology across academia, government and civil society. In its sixth year, the Network Challenge…

Two staff members at Case Western Reserve University were recently named to the 100+ Latinos Cleveland Must Know 2024 cohort by AmMore Consulting. Maria Stutsman y Marquez, associate dean of recruitment and enrollment at Weatherhead School of Management, and Jason Buitrago, executive director of…

Every year, ASTM International selects four graduate students from the United States and Canada to receive a $10,000 scholarship, recognizing their contributions to fields where technical standards are essential. Vishnu Ramasamy, a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and…

Erin Lamb, the Carl F. Asseff MD, MBA, JD, Designated Professor in Medical Humanities in the Department of Bioethics at the School of Medicine, recently received the Lifetime Achievement & Service Award from the Health Humanities Consortium. This recognition honors an individual who has made…

Mai Rashwan, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, received a Poster Presentation Award from the NASA Glenn Research Center during the Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop. Rashwan, whose poster title was “Effective Photothermal Energy Conversion Mechanisms of Nanoparticle-Loaded…

Inamori Ethics Prize ceremony canceled; symposium still to take place Sept. 19 Case Western Reserve University’s Inamori Ethics Prize ceremony honoring renowned physician, immunologist, and infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has been canceled, as Dr. Fauci recovers at home from West…

Fey Parrill Fey Parrill, professor and chair of the Department of Cognitive Science at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently won the Rosalind Franklin Society (RFS) Awards in Science for her paper “Revisioning Cognitive Science Through Holistic Science, Biophilia, and Indigenous Ways of…

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…

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…