Awards
June 05, 2013
After years of honoring faculty achievements in teaching and mentoring, ӰƵ this spring launched a new recognition program for excellence in research. The idea for the initiative came from Robert H. Miller, who became the university’s vice president for research in 2011…
May 22, 2013
ӰƵ political scientist Karen Beckwith received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to the United Kingdom. She will spend six months next year in Scotland and attend political science meetings in England and Spain. Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor of…
May 16, 2013
Anant Madabhushi, associate professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), has been awarded a National Institutes of Health R21 Quick Clinical Trials grant for his project titled “Decision Support for MRI Guidance and…
May 16, 2013
Three faculty members in the ӰƵ Department of Mathematics have been named Simons Foundation Fellows and were granted funds to extend their upcoming sabbaticals to focus solely on research. Assistant professors Mark Meckes and Elizabeth Meckes plan to use their…
May 09, 2013
At the Intersections: SOURCE Symposium and Poster Session April 19, 17 students were honored for their oral and poster presentations. Those awarded were: Humanities Oral Presentations 1st: Anthony Castellaneta, “Philosophy of Mathematics in Ancient Indian Philosophies.” Faculty mentor: Deepak…
May 09, 2013
Winners of the Frances Payne Bolton Nurses Week photo contest were announced last week. The top six photos were awarded $50 gift cards for Amazon.com and made into web banners for the school's home page for Nurses Week, May 6–12. All entries also were entered into a drawing for a $25 Amazon.com…
May 09, 2013
Asha Singanamalli, a biomedical engineering student, received runner up for best student paper at SPIE Medical Imaging 2013. SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics. She beat out 40 other student papers and 7 other finalists with her paper, titled "Identifying in Vivo Dce MRI…
May 08, 2013
Paul Barnhart pushes fourth- and fifth-year students to become problem solvers before they leave for graduate school or engineering careers. “I don’t ask them questions that have answers in the back of a book,” said Barnhart, a ӰƵ associate professor of aerospace and…
May 08, 2013
Anthropology’s Eileen Anderson-Fye started the academic year by giving the first-ever faculty address to the incoming undergraduate class. She finished it by becoming the only person in university history to win its top award for undergraduate teaching 12 months after claiming the campus prize for…
May 08, 2013
Two winners of the inaugural 2013 Flora Award—from the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women—will be honored in a free, public event May 21 at 4:30 p.m. at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The historical society is an institution with ties to the late social justice advocate and…