Awards
October 24, 2014
Krzysztof Palczewski, the John H. Hord Professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, was awarded the 2014 Maurice Saltzman Award by the Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation. The award was established in 1983 to honor Maurice Saltzman who, during more than 30 years of involvement with human…
October 24, 2014
The Office of First-Year Experience and Family Programs (FYEFP) announced the winners of its annual orientation awards, presented to orientation leaders who go above and beyond their roles and responsibilities to truly understand, address and advocate for new students and their families. These…
October 21, 2014
School of Medicine Dean Pamela B. Davis, MD, PhD, and Department of Physiology and Biophysics Chair Walter Boron, MD, PhD, have won election to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM), one of the nation’s most prestigious societies for health and medicine. “We congratulate and…
October 14, 2014
Grant will be used to seek new path to drug discovery by automating identification of all effects for many drugs on the market For the second consecutive year, a ӰƵ School of Medicine researcher has landed one of the much-coveted Director’s New Innovator Awards from…
October 06, 2014
Distinguished University Professor Richard Boyatzis of ӰƵ has again emerged as one of the 10 most influential international thinkers in a recently released 2014 HR Magazine survey of more than 11,000 human resources directors worldwide. Boyatzis, a New York Times…
October 03, 2014
A team from ӰƵ won first prize in the Medical Category of the 2014 NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Design Contest. The team, led by Yunus Alapan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student and PhD candidate in the Case School of Engineering…
October 03, 2014
The Ohio Dental Association Foundation (ODAF) awarded scholarships to six ӰƵ School of Dental Medicine students. “These students have demonstrated a commitment to academic excellence and represent the future of the profession of dentistry,” said Billie Sue Kyger, chair…
October 03, 2014
The Leonard Gelfand STEM Center at ӰƵ was recognized with the U.S. President's Volunteer Service Award for more than 2,500 volunteer hours contributed to the community through the center's Environmental Heroes program. Through the program, which focuses on science…
September 26, 2014
Umut Gurkan, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was named to MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35—Turkey list. The magazine has compiled the list of scientists and innovators whose work is transforming the world’s technology for more than a decade. Gurkan accepted…
September 26, 2014
Walter Boron, the David N. and Inez Myers/Antonio Scarpa Professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Aarhus University in Denmark. Boron's research interest is acid-base homeostasis. He and his colleagues were the first to…