Diekhoff Award

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community can nominate outstanding faculty members for the prestigious John S. Diekhoff Awards for Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. Up to four Diekhoff Awards are given annually: two awards for Distinguished Graduate Teaching and two awards for Disting...

School of Graduate Studies students can be part of Case Western Reserve University’s 40-year tradition of recognizing graduate faculty for their exemplary contributions to the education and development of students through advising, mentoring and classroom teaching. The School of Graduate Studies is...

Eileen Anderson-Fye focuses on students’ work—and the rest of their lives Eileen Anderson-Fye offers an unusual line when asked about mentoring. “Students,” she says, “aren’t just brains on a stick.” Yet amid the intense intellectual demands of graduate school, they often can feel that way. As a f...

Medicine's Paul Tesar receives Diekhoff Award for Mentoring after being a CWRU mentee years ago While earning an undergraduate degree in biology at Case Western Reserve, Paul Tesar had three outstanding scientific mentors whose influence he feels to this day. Now, 15 years later, it’s Tesar who’s b...

Nursing's Christopher Burant receives Diekhoff graduate teaching award Associate Professor Christopher Burant said he is “standing on the shoulders of giants” who inspire him to become a better educator and person. Leading that roster of giants: lifelong teachers like his grandmother Lillian; his i...

What makes a great teacher depends on whom you ask. But most would probably agree on a combination of superb people skills, a passion for the profession and a remarkable toolkit of teaching techniques. For all this and more, Thomas Love, an expert in statistics and professor of medicine, population...

Do you know a faculty member who has been outstanding in teaching or mentoring graduate students? This is your chance to help them get recognized with the prestigious John S. Diekhoff Award. There are four Diekhoff Awards: two awards for Distinguished Graduate Teaching and two awards for Distinguis...

The School of Graduate Studies’ Professional Development Center is looking for motivated graduate students interested in contributing to the selection of this year's John S. Diekhoff Award winners. This group will interview and select the recipients of these distinguished awards, presented annually...

Alex Huang, associate professor of pediatrics, pathology, biomedical engineering and general medical sciences in the School of Medicine, knows firsthand the value of mentoring. At age 14, he moved with his family from Taiwan to Chicago. One of his earliest mentors was his high school physics teache...

Art History’s Erin Benay earns a 2017 John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching Erin Benay’s plans to become a museum curator changed the moment she taught her first class as a graduate student at Rutgers University. “That was it—I loved it—and knew it immediately,” said Benay, an assistant prof...