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School of Medicine’s Gary Landreth receives grant to continue working on Alzheimer's research
Gary Landreth, professor of neurosciences and neurology, received a 2015 Research Grant Award from The Alzheimer's Association. Landreth, who also is the director of the Alzheimer Research Laboratory, won a $240,000 Investigator-Initiated Research Grant to fund his research in roles of TREM2 in…
Find out the results of the Launch CWRU competition
Launch CWRU Weekend 2015 wrapped up Sunday, Sept. 6. At the beginning of the event, 24 individuals pitched their ideas, with 16 teams forming to begin the 48-hour competition. More than 30 community members supported idea research and team project development, acting as mentors, advisers, and…
Center for RNA Molecular Biology’s Kristian Baker wins alumni award from University of Regina
Kristian Baker, associate professor in Center for RNA Molecular Biology at the School of Medicine, recently received the Crowning Achievement Award for Professional Achievement from her alma mater, the University of Regina. The award seeks to recognize alumni of the university who have achieved…
CWRU jumps 10 spots in Sierra Club’s “Cool Schools” list
ӰƵ is dedicated to reducing its environmental footprint and, to guide this process, the university drafted a Climate Action Plan in May 2011 and set a goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. Annually, CWRU's Office for Sustainability submits data through the Association for the…
Book co-authored by two sociology faculty members honored for its look into teen pregnancy
Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black, both associate professors of sociology, received the Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award of the Association for Humanist Sociology for the book they co-authored, On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy. The awards committee unanimously selected…
Junior selected for Phi Beta Kappa Society Writing Internship
Steven Reynolds, a junior double majoring in political science and sociology, won the 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Society Writing Internship. Reynolds’ internship began in August and will end in December. During the five-month period, he will write at least six articles for the society’s publication for…
Another SMART student: Junior wins scholarship to cover tuition, provide post-graduation job
When Lauren Anderson found out she won a Department of Defense Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship, she thought she was dreaming. The ӰƵ junior had just woken up from a nap and checked her email when she learned she would have her…
Engineering doctoral candidates receive American Society for Testing and Materials International scholarships
Two ӰƵ students won $10,000 scholarships from the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) for their graduate studies. Janet Gbur and Mohsen Seifi, both PhD candidates in materials science and engineering, were two of three students selected for…
Professor Anant Madabhushi, team awarded patent in digital pathology, biomarker quantification
Anant Madabhushi, director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and professor of biomedical engineering, was awarded U.S. patent 9,111,179, titled “High-throughput Biomarker Segmentation Utilizing Hierarchical Normalized Cuts.” The invention relates to a novel…
Weatherhead School researchers win best paper distinction for work on open source software
Kalle Lyytinen, professor of design and innovation; Aron Lindberg, PhD candidate at the Weatherhead School of Management; and Nicholas Berente (MGT '04, '09), assistant professor of management information systems at the University of Georgia, recently received the Academy of Management…