Carl F Wittke Award

The nominees for the 2024 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the 2024 J. Bruce Jackson, MD, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring were recently announced. Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Established in honor of Carl Wittke in 1...

Dave Lucas never wanted to become a professor. Growing up, he saw the hard work his parents put in as teachers and thought it wasn’t for him; he wanted to be a writer. But as a graduate student, he had to start teaching to earn an income—and he fell in love with it. “I assumed my life would be on...

"We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give." Stephanie Harris often reflects on this quote attributed to Winston Churchill as defining her teaching and mentoring philosophy. For the associate professor in Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Department of Nu...