Awards

A team from the CWRU College Trivia Club competed last Saturday at a quizbowl tournament at Youngstown State University, ending with a winning record for the day. The team, consisting of junior Tyler McMaken, sophomore Caleb Branton, and first-years Matt York and Giber Fonseca, competed all day wit...

Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland awarded Kalle Lyytinen, the Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design, with an honorary doctorate last month. Lyytinen, also chair of the Department of Design ad Innovation, was honored for his lifetime achievements in research into digital and...

During medical mission trips to Appalachia when she was younger, Gloria Tavera recognized the economic injustice many of the people she was helping faced—and she wanted to fight it. “We weren’t going to solve the problem by going there and giving them gift cards to Walmart,” she said. “Someone was ...

For the first time ever, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) bestowed its Division III Female National Player of the Week accolade on a Case Western Reserve University athlete. On Tuesday, USBWA selected Kara Hageman, a junior forward, for the honor. “It means a lot to me to receive thi...

Will conduct research on malaria-detection device and teach in Peru Brian Grimberg, assistant professor of international health, infectious diseases and immunology at the Center for Global Health and Diseases at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has received a Fulbright U.S. Schola...

Support of Undergraduate Research & Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) recently announced the winters of the December Intersections Poster Session. The spring installment of Intersections is part of Research ShowCASE, which will be held Friday, April 21. Learn more about the event at case.edu/provost/sour...

Three members of the Case Western Reserve University community wrote an article for in EDUCAUSE Review that was named one of the top 10 most popular stories for the publication in 2016. James Juergensen, a postdoctoral scholar; Tina Oestreich, senior director of teaching and learning technologies; ...

During the fall semester, Case Western Reserve University and the Office for Sustainability were recognized with the Commuter Choice Challenge Award and with rankings on the “green schools” lists. Commuter Choice Challenge Award For the third year in a row, the university received the Commuter Choic...

Mustafa Unal, a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, recently received the Society for Applied Spectroscopy’s (SAS) Barbara Stull Graduate Student Award. The award is given annually to only one graduate student in recognition of outstanding research in the area o...

Samuel Herberg, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, received a 2016 Young Investigator Award from the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) – Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The award recognizes two individuals in...