Appointments
 August 25, 2020
   Melvyn C. Goldstein, the John Reynolds Harkness Professor of Anthropology and co-director of the Center for Research on Tibet at ӰƵ (CWRU), is widely considered to be the world’s leading scholar of Tibet in anthropology. He is the first Western anthropologist to conduct… 
 
 August 11, 2020
   ӰƵ engineer and researcher Umut Gurkan has been named a senior member of the August 2020 class of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Gurkan is the Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Case School of Engineering, where… 
 
 August 07, 2020
   Georgia Cowart, professor of music, was elected to honorary membership in the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music (SSCM) by the organization’s governing board. Honorary members are chosen for “their outstanding contribution to the study and presentation of seventeenth-century music.” She is one… 
 
 August 07, 2020
   The inaugural class of ӰƵ Translational Fellows has been selected. The program was open to senior doctoral students and postdocs working with a principal investigator on a CWRU-based technology with the potential for commercialization. The program seeks to provide… 
 
 August 07, 2020
   The Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship has announced the selection of the 2020-21 Veale Entrepreneurship Fellows. This program supports faculty, staff or teams to create new initiatives, including specific types of engagement efforts, research proposals and formal or informal educational… 
 
 August 07, 2020
   The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Kelvin Smith Library has announced the selection of the 2020-21 Freedman Faculty Fellows. The program supports full-time, board-appointed, tenured or tenure-track faculty, and clinical research faculty at the rank of assistant professor or above. The… 
 
 August 07, 2020
   ӰƵ Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III has been elected vice president of the Research Division of the American Historical Association (AHA).  According to AHA Executive Director James Grossman, Vinson will play an integral role in promoting historical… 
 
 August 07, 2020
   Heather Burton, former director of National Science Foundation Advance Institutions Developing Excellence in Academic Leadership-National (IDEAL-N) and Partners Institutions Faculty and Student Development, has been appointed as ӰƵ’s incoming senior director for faculty… 
 
 July 10, 2020
   Photo taken prior to social distancing guidelines. Elizabeth Meckes and Elisabeth Werner, professors in the Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, were selected as 2020 Simons Fellows. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year,… 
 
 July 10, 2020
   Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, assistant professor of pathology, was selected as one of the 10 fellows in the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Public Policy Fellows Program for the year 2020-21. Fellows will attend a two-day Capitol Hill Day in Washington, D.C. They take part in a training…