Awards
April 19, 2013
A ӰƵ student-led startup aimed at saving lives through faster, better and cheaper malaria diagnosis won the 2013 LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Business Idea Competition at the University of Akron this week. Disease Diagnostic Group LLC’s win comes on the heels of its…
April 18, 2013
Rakesh Niraj, associate professor of marketing and policy studies, won the 2012 Journal of Business to Business Marketing Outstanding Article Award for his research article, “Uncovering Customer Profitability Segments for Business Customers.” His work was selected due to its overall contribution…
April 18, 2013
A feature article written by assistant sports information director Nick Minerd was selected for top honors in a quarterly recognition program jointly sponsored by the NCAA Division III staff and the Division III College Sports Information Directors of America. A panel of sports information…
April 15, 2013
On April 7, the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) team won first place in the National Cancer Institute-sponsored Grand Challenge on Segmentation of Prostatic Structures from MRI. The first-place ӰƵ team was represented by graduate…
April 15, 2013
ACES+, the continuation of Academic Careers in Engineering & Science (ACES) program, has announced the recipients of the 2013 ADVANCE Opportunity Grant Awards. Thirteen proposals from faculty across five schools and colleges, representing academic disciplines ranging from music to physics to…
April 15, 2013
Cassandra Robertson, associate professor of law, recently had her paper, “Freedom of Contract in the Market for Professional,” selected for the Freedom of Contract colloquium. Along with the selection, she was awarded $5,000. The paper will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Boston…
April 10, 2013
Two ӰƵ students have been honored by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, which recognizes outstanding potential and commitment to excellence in science, engineering and mathematics. Todd Norton, a third-year math and physics…
April 02, 2013
ӰƵ historian Marixa Lasso received two prestigious fellowships—from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Humanities Center—to write a book about the forgotten history of the Panamanian towns that dotted the Canal Zone until a 1912 executive…
March 28, 2013
Weatherhead School of Management graduate student Abe Weiner was part of a team of urban design graduate students from Kent State, Cleveland State and ӰƵ universities that received an honorable mention from the 2013 Urban Land Institute Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design…
March 28, 2013
The first Student Organization Spirit Day competition took place March 22. IMPROVment, an improv comedy group, took first place after a dramatic tiebreaker: a hula-hoop relay. The spirit day encouraged campus organizations to take part in competitive, spirited activities—from three-legged races to…