Awards
January 16, 2014
Amy Y. Zhang, associate professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, received the Distinguished Researcher Award from the Pain and Symptom Management Research Section of Midwest Nursing Research Society. Zhang’s research interests include quality of life in cancer patients,…
January 16, 2014
Umut Gurkan, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Glenn Wera, assistant professor of orthopedics at the School of Medicine, received the first Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center Steven Garverick Innovation Incentive award for their collaborative research,…
January 10, 2014
At a young age, John Broich felt a compulsion to understand how things came to be. Well before his high school years, he remembers thinking that the fundamental questions about how people came to act and think weren’t being asked. Like any good researcher, he began searching for answers to these…
January 09, 2014
Walk in My Shoes–HIV/AIDS Awareness, an event hosted by Juniper Residential College, gained regional and national recognition as an outstanding diversity program in the National Residence Hall Honorary’s “Of the Month” awards. The event, held Nov. 22, was part of the annual Walk in My Shoes…
January 09, 2014
The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) and United States Tennis Association (USTA) named ӰƵ men’s head tennis coach Todd Wojtkowski as the Midwest Region's recipient of the 2013 Sectional Campus and Community Outreach Award. Wojtkowski was one of only seven…
January 09, 2014
Researchers at Affinity Therapeutics, a ӰƵ spinoff whose technology allows the release of drug therapy to be customized and better controlled, recently received another round of federal funding, through the National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovation…
January 02, 2014
Researchers at ӰƵ received a $486,000 Doris Duke Foundation award to discover how to predict when sickle cell disease patients will suffer an acute crisis and monitor the effectiveness of treatments. For decades, scientists have known that during acute crises,…
December 23, 2013
Michael Clune, associate professor of English, released his book, White Out, earlier this year. The memoir made several “Best Books of 2013” lists including those on: The New Yorker, Themillions.com and Hobartpulp.com. For more information on Clune, visit case.edu/artsci/engl/Clune/Clune.html.
December 23, 2013
Bridges, an album released earlier this year by David Ake, chair of the Department of Music, made three Best-of-2013 lists. The lists were on Burning Ambulance: A Journal of Arts and Culture, All About Jazz, and the Jazz Journalists Association.
December 23, 2013
Digital Technology Services and Solutions, a unit within Information Technology Services (ITS), received two awards from the Society for Technical Communication. The respiratory recovery mobile app created for Professor Jerry Silver received an “Excellence” award, and the research computing…