Awards

On April 16, 245 Case Western Reserve University faculty and staff members successfully completed a 12-week exercise incentive program. By way of the HealthTrails app or website, participants virtually traveled through trails in places as diverse as China, Denmark, Italy, Australia and…

Five Case Western Reserve University faculty members were inducted as American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) fellows. They are: Nicole Steinmetz, associate professor of biomedical engineering; Nick Ziats, professor of pathology and associate professor of…

Dhamakapella placed third at the South-Asian fusion a cappella national championships, All-American Awaaz, in New York City April 22. The team competed against groups from Texas A&M, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, MIT, Rutgers University and the University of Miami. In…

Kakul Joshi, a REACH strategy coordinator with the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, won a 2017 Medicine, Society and Culture Travel Grant from the Medical Humanities and Social Medicine Initiative. She presented "Produce prescriptions for food insecure patients with…

Nuria Lacuey-Lecumberri, assistant professor of neurology, was named the recipient of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) UCB Center for Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Research Pilot award. This pilot program awards grants to national and international…

The Urban Affairs Association (UAA), an international professional association for urban scholars, researchers and public service professionals, recognized a book co-written by Mark Joseph, an associate professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and founding…

As an integral part of the fabric that defines Case Western Reserve, university-based research continues to result in groundbreaking discoveries in everything from law to management to medicine and beyond. Each year, the university community celebrates the many scholarly pursuits of students,…

Cameron Macaskill, a senior, was one of 120 students nationally selected for a 2017 Projects for Peace Grant. Macaskill received $10,000 to implement her project, a weeklong “Poetry for Peace” camp for South African high school students, which will be implemented over the summer. Philanthropist…

Benjamin Kuznets-Speck, a junior mathematics and physics major, was one of 240 undergraduates across the country named a 2017 Goldwater Scholar. The scholarships are granted based on merit to students in natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. Kuznets-Speck will receive up to $7,500 to…

The CWRU Pride LGBT Alumni Network selected Eric Chen and Uriel Kim for the CWRU Pride LGBT Ohio Leadership Award for their work in developing the LGBTQ+ Patient Advocacy Training Program. The purpose of this program is to reduce LGBTQ+ health disparities through a rigorous nine-hour-long…