faculty/staff

Elina Gertsman, professor of medieval art and the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II, won the 2023 Otto Gründler prize for her book The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books. Given annually, the Otto Gründler Book Prize recognizes a monograph on a medieval subject that…

Yulanda Prude, assistant director of the Cuyahoga County Youth Work Institute (CCYWI) at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, was named Instructor of the Year at the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Impact Awards. In a ceremony held at the Mental Health First Aid Summit in Los…

The University Compliance Program has created a list of training sessions offered by Case Western Reserve University divisions and offices to assist faculty and staff take advantage of various opportunities. Across the university, various units, such as the Center for International Affairs,…

Kevin Sulivan, assistant director of education abroad was selected for the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers (NAFSA): Association of International Educators’ prestigious Rising Star Young Leader Award for 2023.   “Through the skill, talent and leadership he has shown in his young…

Case Western Reserve University faculty and staff members are invited to join President Eric W. Kaler to celebrate the retirement of Lou Stark, vice president for student affairs, Wednesday, June 21, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Grand Ballroom at Tinkham Veale…

Rekha R. Srinivasan has been no stranger to winning teaching awards since arriving at Case Western Reserve University in 2005. From the Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching she earned in her fifth year to the 2015–16 Faculty Advisor of the Year Award from the Women in…

Multiple family generations make up Paula FitzGibbon’s lineage at Case Western Reserve University. Degrees accrued in the past century include those earned by her grandmother from The Teacher’s College (1927); her mother from Flora Stone Mather College for Women at Western Reserve College (1957)…

SAGES teaching fellow and lecturer in English Narcisz Fejes says she’s deeply inspired by Catholic priest, theologian and professor Henri J.M. Nouwen, who considers teaching and mentoring a form of hospitality. In her work as a full-time instructor at Case Western Reserve University since 2006,…

Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics Professors Daniela Calvetti and Erkki Somersalo wrote a textbook that was published earlier this year. The textbook, titled The Less is More Linear Algebra of Vector Spaces and Matrices, is for a one-semester, proof-based undergraduate…

To fully recount the many achievements and accolades Sandra Walker Russ earned in her nearly five decades at Case Western Reserve University would be no easy feat. She’s a Distinguished University Professor and has been interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences—twice. She was chair of the…