appointments

Lisa, Koops, associate professor of music education, was named to the editorial board for Perspectives: Journal of the Early Childhood Music & Movement Association. The journal seeks to promote best practices in all areas of early childhood music and movement for the good of children, pre-birth thr...

Cassandra Burke Robertson was named director of the endowed Center for Professional Ethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Robertson has taught professional responsibility at the university’s law school for more than eight years. Her scholarship focuses on ethics and procedure in ...

Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs, was appointed as a Wilson Center Global Fellow in the Global Europe Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. As a Wilson Center Global Fellow, Lavelle will become part of a global network of preeminent tho...

Double alumnus Mark Weinberger, the global chairman and CEO of the multinational professional services firm EY, has been named to Case Western Reserve’s Board of Trustees. Weinberger, who earned his JD and MBA here, brings extensive private and public sector experience to his new role at the univers...

Trevor O. Jones, a lifelong engineering pioneer and dedicated Case Western Reserve supporter, has been named a 2014 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a distinction awarded today to 170 esteemed innovators and inventors worldwide. With this recognition, Jones, who serves on the Pres...

Provost W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III today announced the appointment of Suzanne M. Rivera as Case Western Reserve’s new vice president for research, effective this month. Rivera, the university’s associate vice president for research since January 2011, emerged as the university’s top choice after an ext...

Suzanne Rivera, associate vice president for research and assistant professor of bioethics and pediatrics, was appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Human Studies Review Board. The review board is a federal advisory committee operating under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. It provi...

Will discuss and perform “Rust Belt Alley”-era tunes at Happy Dog Cleveland on Oct. 14 Daniel Goldmark, the new director of Case Western Reserve University’s Center for Popular Music Studies, will step out of the lecture hall and onto the Happy Dog Cleveland stage with ukulele in hand. On Tuesday, ...

The 2013-14 annual report on promotions and emeritus status is now available. This report lists faculty who were appointed to emeritus status since last year’s report or who were promoted to associate professor or professor or awarded tenure on July 1. Download the list....

Georgia Cowart, professor in the Department of Music, recently was named to a two-year term on the Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society. The American Musicological Society was founded in 1934. The society aims to advance scholarship in the various fields of music through researc...