Awards
May 15, 2018
School of Medicine’s Drew Adams earns Jackson Award for undergraduate mentoring Whether they need help with experiments, life or navigating their career paths, students in Drew Adams’ lab know they can count on him for guidance. The personal interest Adams takes in his students has earned him the…
May 11, 2018
The Vice President for Research and Technology Management held a campuswide internal grant competition to promote research, scholarship and creative endeavors. Intended to foster the incubation of new ideas and their cultivation for production of knowledge, this program provides faculty the…
May 11, 2018
Madeleine Harris, Aaron Mann, Nicholas Merchant-Wells and Jack Worsham, all civil engineering undergraduate students, won first prize in the Ohio Water Environment Association (OWEA) 2018 Student Design Competition. They were mentored by Kurt Rhoads, assistant professor of civil engineering. Their…
May 11, 2018
The International Center for Autism Research and Education has received $38,000 from Eastlake Middle School over the past eight years, as the school’s student council regularly hosts fundraising dances for the center. This year, David E. Biegel, the Henry L. Zucker Professor of Social Work…
May 11, 2018
Three ӰƵ students and their faculty advisor received awards for their research poster and paper at the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2018 Space and Earth Conference. The research poster created by undergraduate student Xiyu Zhang and co-authored by PhD candidate…
May 11, 2018
Two teams of ӰƵ students were the top two competitors in the Collegiate Division at the second annual Medical Capital Innovation Competition. RADIOME, a startup which seeks to predict whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy will benefit cancer patients to reduce ineffective…
May 10, 2018
Eileen Anderson-Fye focuses on students’ work—and the rest of their lives Eileen Anderson-Fye offers an unusual line when asked about mentoring. “Students,” she says, “aren’t just brains on a stick.” Yet amid the intense intellectual demands of graduate school, they often can feel that way. As a…
May 10, 2018
Medicine's Paul Tesar receives Diekhoff Award for Mentoring after being a CWRU mentee years ago While earning an undergraduate degree in biology at ӰƵ, Paul Tesar had three outstanding scientific mentors whose influence he feels to this day. Now, 15 years later, it’s Tesar who’s…
May 09, 2018
Nursing's Christopher Burant receives Diekhoff graduate teaching award Associate Professor Christopher Burant said he is “standing on the shoulders of giants” who inspire him to become a better educator and person. Leading that roster of giants: lifelong teachers like his grandmother Lillian; his…
May 09, 2018
What makes a great teacher depends on whom you ask. But most would probably agree on a combination of superb people skills, a passion for the profession and a remarkable toolkit of teaching techniques. For all this and more, Thomas Love, an expert in statistics and professor of medicine,…