Awards
September 12, 2017
The Carnegie Corporation of New York today named ӰƵ President Barbara R. Snyder a recipient of its 2017 Academic Leadership Award. The honor recognizes college and university presidents for their vision and a commitment to excellence across multiple areas, among them…
September 08, 2017
Fabio Cominelli has been selected for the 2017 ӰƵ School of Medicine Medal for Excellence in Health Science Innovation, the School of Medicine’s highest honor, for his accomplishments in advancing digestive system health. Cominelli, associate dean for program…
September 08, 2017
Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, assistant professor of pathology, and David Baltimore of the California Institute of Technology, were recently issued a patent titled “Targeting c-Rel O-GlcNAcylation and Uses Thereof.” The research Type 1 diabetes is an incurable autoimmune disease, where a type of…
September 08, 2017
Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded U.S. patent 9,767,555 titled “Disease Characterization from Fused Pathology and Radiology Data.” The described invention…
September 08, 2017
Chris Yuan, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, won first place in the Reusable Abstractions of Manufacturing Processes national research competition. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Science Foundation, American Society of Testing and Materials…
September 01, 2017
For the sixth straight year, ӰƵ received a national award that recognizes institutions for their commitment to diversity and inclusion and implementing comprehensive diversity initiatives across campus. ӰƵ received the 2017 Higher Education Excellence…
August 30, 2017
Kalle Lyytinen's work can be found at the intersection of two kinds of computing: wet computing—done by our brains—and the so-called dry computing of silicon microprocessors. Kalle Lyytinen, in his first semester at CWRU, 2001 (courtesy of University Archives) By studying how complex sources of…
August 30, 2017
Shirley Moore can’t recall a time in her life, even as a girl on the family’s Ashtabula, Ohio, dairy farm, when she didn’t want to be a nurse, to care for others. But Moore, the Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing and associate dean for research at the Frances Payne Bolton School of…
August 29, 2017
Proteins, an indispensable component orchestrating crucial bodily functions from the heartbeat to digestion, have been long studied. But a central mystery remains: How exactly do they carry out their life-maintaining activities? Through groundbreaking research in the structure and dynamics of…
August 29, 2017
Hearing a note or chord played perfectly in tune still has the power to send shivers through Ross W. Duffin. “It’s transcendent,” said Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, “precisely because it is such a rare achievement.” Duffin’s life in music could be defined the same way. Ross…