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Melissa Knothe Tate, professor of biomedical and mechanical and aerospace engineering, was elected as a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, an honor lauding the top 3 percent of the profession. Knothe Tate was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biologi...

Gary Hunter, assistant professor of marketing and policy studies, was selected by the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) Academic Council to serve as the 2014 Winter AMA Marketing Educators’ Conference co-chair and Proceedings co-editor. The conference is among the world’s largest for marketing ...

Accountancy Professor Larry Parker was selected to serve on the national nominations committee of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the global organization representing 8,000 academic members throughout the world. The committee discharged its duties in November and the competitive slate of...

J. B. Silvers, the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Health Care Finance, has been appointed treasurer and member of the executive committee of the board of The Joint Commission (TJC), where he has served as a commissioner for the last eight years. The Joint Commission (formerly JC...

The American Society of Clinical Oncology recently announced the appointment of Neal J. Meropol to its 18-member board of directors. The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is the world’s leading professional organization representing physicians who care for people with cancer. Meropol is ...

Tim Webster, assistant professor of law, was elected to term membership on the Council on Foreign Affairs. In addition, Webster, who joined the faculty in July, was awarded a Taiwan Fellowship by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China and named a visiting scholar at National Taiwan Univ...

Inspiring entrepreneurship as a viable career path will take a major step forward with the appointment of Bob Sopko as director of the university’s Blackstone LaunchPad (BLP)—a program for helping students turn their ideas into thriving businesses. “College is a time of discovery of the imagination...

Out of nearly 800 applicants, Heather Clayton Terry, associate director for Women in Science & Engineering, has been selected to receive an all-expense-paid trip to Chicago to attend the PhD Project Conference, Nov. 14–16. The PhD Project is a clearinghouse for the knowledge potential students of b...

Matthew Willard, an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Case School of Engineering, has been selected to take part in the 13th Japanese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium. The symposium will be held Nov. 30–Dec. 2 at the Arnold and Mabel Beck...

Weatherhead School of Management faculty member Mark Taylor recently was elected vice president of academics for the auditing section of the American Accounting Association. The AAA is a premier organization for accounting professionals and scholars. Taylor, who joined the faculty in 2009, is a pro...