Awards
February 24, 2017
Joyce Fitzpatrick, the Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, won the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health’s Action in Advocacy Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Nursing's Future Leaders. The award will be presented in conjunction with the UN 61st Commission on the Status of…
February 17, 2017
Hear from the winners of the Martin Luther King Jr. Reflection Competition at a reception Friday, Feb. 24, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library. This year, the competition was open to different forms of expression, including poetry, short story, art and photography. Faculty, staff and students…
February 10, 2017
William Huddleston William Huddleston and Kevin Pachuta, graduate students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, received second and third place awards, respectively, at the eighth Electronic Materials and Applications Meeting. The meeting, organized by the American Ceramic…
February 10, 2017
When people think of Grammy nominees, names like Beyoncé, Adele and Rihanna likely come to mind. This year, a member of the ӰƵ community also join the ranks: Elizabeth Hankins, a PhD candidate in her seventh year in the Department of Music, who was a finalist for the…
February 10, 2017
Mary Quinn Griffin, professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, was named to the 2016 Irish Education 100, a listing of the leading Irish-American figures in education across the United States. The Irish Education 100 gives tribute to the enduring Irish success in education,…
February 10, 2017
Clare Rimnac, the Wilbert J. Austin Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received the ORS/OREF Distinguished Investigator Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society and Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation. The award honors individuals with…
February 10, 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 a patent for capturing cancer architecture in digital pathology images. His patent is titled “Histogram of hosoya index (HoH)…
February 10, 2017
A team from the CWRU College Trivia Club competed last Saturday at a quizbowl tournament at Youngstown State University, ending with a winning record for the day. The team, consisting of junior Tyler McMaken, sophomore Caleb Branton, and first-years Matt York and Giber Fonseca, competed all day…
February 10, 2017
Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland awarded Kalle Lyytinen, the Iris S. Wolstein Professor of Management Design, with an honorary doctorate last month. Lyytinen, also chair of the Department of Design ad Innovation, was honored for his lifetime achievements in research into digital…
February 02, 2017
During medical mission trips to Appalachia when she was younger, Gloria Tavera recognized the economic injustice many of the people she was helping faced—and she wanted to fight it. “We weren’t going to solve the problem by going there and giving them gift cards to Walmart,” she said. “Someone was…