Awards
May 01, 2015
Answenergy, first place winner of the sixth annual Saint Gobain Student Design Competition held on April 1, started off the group presentations with a thoughtful question: “Take out your phones. Are you happy with your battery?” In response, the audience took out their phones, looked at their…
May 01, 2015
In this busy season for entrepreneurial awards and announcements of innovation grants, Punkaj Ahuja and Patrick Leimkuehler, and their venture Apollo Medical Devices, have an especially full calendar. Over the April 17 weekend, Apollo was the runner-up in Notre Dame University’s prestigious…
April 29, 2015
Michael Goldberg, a visiting assistant professor at ӰƵ’s Weatherhead School of Management, will start a Fulbright fellowship in Namibia on May 8. As a Fulbright Senior Specialist, Goldberg will work at Polytechnic of Namibia, helping to develop the Southern African…
April 24, 2015
Earlier this month, eight members of the ӰƵ Baja Team packed up their trailer and drove south to Auburn, Ala., to compete in an international competition run by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Every year since 2001, students on the Baja Team have designed,…
April 24, 2015
The Princeton Review recently named ӰƵ as one of the 353 most environmentally responsible colleges of 2015 in its sixth annual "Guide to Green Colleges." ӰƵ’s Office for Sustainability reported more than 25 criteria on sustainability-related policies,…
April 24, 2015
Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) is pleased to announce the travel funding award recipients for 2014-2015. The following students presented a poster or paper about their research or creative endeavors at a conference: Diana Acosta (biomedical engineering)…
April 24, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering, and Lyndsay Harris, professor of medicine-hematology/oncology, were awarded a one-year, $50,000 grant titled, "Radiogenomic approach for predicting pathologic complete response in HER2+ breast cancers" as part of the Case Comprehensive Cancer…
April 22, 2015
The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at ӰƵ has selected Martha C. Nussbaum, who The New York Times once described as “the most prominent female philosopher in America,” for the 2015 Inamori Ethics Prize. ӰƵ has awarded the…
April 20, 2015
Foot-powered mobile phone charger for developing countries takes first place More than $20,000 was at stake—funding that could give a promising student business idea a real boost. Sixteen student teams entered the Spartan Challenge, ӰƵ’s annual business start-up…
April 17, 2015
The Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies received the Niagara Peace and Dialogue Education Award for 2015. The Niagara Peace and Dialogue Awards recognize individuals and groups who have contributed time, energy, leadership and dedication to the cause of dialogue, peace, education,…