Awards
July 12, 2011
Gary Wnek, the Joseph F. Toot Jr. Professor of Engineering; Alexis Abramson, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; David Schiraldi, professor and chair of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering; and Bill Yu, associate professor of civil engineering, r...
July 11, 2011
Robert H. Binstock, Professor of Aging, Health, and Society, has been received the 2011 M. Powell Lawton Award from the Gerontological Society of America for “contributions from applied gerontological research that have benefited older people and their care.”
A former president of the Gerontologica...
July 11, 2011
The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce awarded Melissa Knothe Tate, professor of biomedical engineering, a $25,000 Chairmen's Distinguished Life Sciences Scientist Award. Knothe Tate is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of orthopaedic mechano...
July 07, 2011
May L. Wykle, the Marvin E. and Ruth Durr Denekas Professor and the dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at ӰƵ, will join a distinguished group of peers in July to be inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.
She is amo...
July 07, 2011
Peter Shulman, assistant professor of history, received the 2011 Legislative Archives Research Fellowship. Shulman’s research will expand on his 2007 dissertation, “Empire of Energy: War, Environment and Geopolitics before the Age of Oil,” and will focus on a reinterpretation of 19th and early 20th ...
July 07, 2011
ӰƵ took home two awards at Team Northeast Ohio’s Fifth Annual Economic Development Plus Awards Dinner on June 30. In the “Foreign Investment” category, the university, University Hospitals Case Medical Center and BioEnterprise were honored for the second year in a row es...
June 30, 2011
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $286,000 to ӰƵ for “An Innovative Microfabricated Ionic Wind Pump Array for Thermal Management Applications.” Principal investigators on the project are Norman Tien, dean and Nord Professor of Engineering at Case School of En...
June 29, 2011
Emeritus statistics professor Joe Sedransk will be honored at the 2011 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) in Miami July 31-Aug. 4. Two sessions will be held in his honor: “Surveys, Bayesian Modeling and the Interconnections” and “Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Finite Populations.” Sedransk’s areas...
June 23, 2011
LaShanda Korley, Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Case School of Engineering, was one of 18 faculty members from around the world to become part of the 43rd class of DuPont Young Professors. The DuPont Young Professor program provides start-up assistance to promising young and untenured...
June 22, 2011
Swarup Bhunia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, received a five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant worth nearly $462,000. The award is given to an investigator to pursue research in an emerging area, which Bhunia will d...