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May 2023 Inside the Action Newsletter
In this months newsletter: Congratulations Alumni! Alumni Awards nomination deadline Congratulations Nada Di Franco Make a gift to help students enrolling this fall Upcoming Events Student Spotlights Alumni News Faculty News In Memoriam Employment and Career Opportunities Read the May ...
Steve Potash and Loree Potash (MSL '75) lead discussion on founding OverDrive, B Corps business
On April 26, 2023 the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Kelvin Smith Library, hosted an entrepreneurship speaker series event with co-founders of OverDrive, Inc., Steve Potash and Loree Potash (MSL '75) Their conversation, Leading a Commercially Successful Company with a...
Commencement 2023
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences celebrated the graduation of its Master of Social Work (MSW), Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO), and PhD in Social Welfare students on Friday, May 19, 2023! The Mandel School's diploma ceremony took place at the Maltz Perfor...
Weatherhead’s Jose Olavarria receives 2023 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
In 2019, Jose Olavarria began teaching finance courses as a part-time adjunct professor at Weatherhead School of Management—where he received a Master of Finance degree years earlier—while simultaneously working as a pricing analyst at Farmers Insurance. In the years to follow, he’s realized he has ...
Guda's Research Suggests that RNA Molecules Could Detect Aggressive Esophageal Cancer
Research by Kishore Guda, DVM, PhD, Case CCC's Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program member, published this month in Gastroenterology indicates that biomarkers in throat cells may predict an individual's predisposition to developing esophageal cancer. “Our study opens a new area of investigation ...
Ada Jackson featured as one of CWRU's outstanding 2023 graduates
At Case Western Reserve University, our students excel in research, academics, athletics and in the community. This week, we will celebrate the accomplishments of about 2,500 graduates. It would be impossible to comprehensively describe all of their contributions, but we caught up with a graduatin...
Anatomy’s Karla Coburn honored with 2023 John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching
Nearly two decades ago, Karla Coburn gave up a career in dentistry to pursue her dream of becoming an educator. As that mid-career pivot demonstrated, her desire to lead and care for students comes from deep within. “Teaching is my true passion,” said Coburn, “and my goal is to offer the best learn...
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Anatomy’s Karla Coburn honored with 2023 John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching
Nearly two decades ago, Karla Coburn gave up a career in dentistry to pursue her dream of becoming an educator. As that mid-career pivot demonstrated, her desire to lead and care for students comes from deep within. “Teaching is my true passion,” said Coburn, “and my goal is to offer the best learn...
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Meet biomedical engineering students who presented at SOURCE Intersections
More than 500 undergraduate students at Case Western Reserve University took to the Veale Convocation, Recreation and Athletic Center on April 21 to present their research and creative projects at Intersections, a poster session hosted by the Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors ...
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation named recipient of President’s Award for Visionary Achievement
Among Case Western Reserve University’s most transformative and generous supporters, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation has been named the recipient of the 2023 President’s Award for Visionary Achievement. The annual award honors those who have made a profound, positive and lasting impact...