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When Roger Quinn joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 37 years ago, the term “biorobotics” was unknown. Initially focused on simulation and control of space structures, Quinn was approached by former CWRU professor Randall Beer and professors of biology Hillel Chiel and Roy…

The Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity (OIDEO) recently promoted Heather E. Burton to the role of associate vice president of the office. The promotion was effective July 1. Burton came to ����APP in 2015 as project director of the NSF Advance grant and…

Kath Bogie, professor of orthopaedics, was named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, an international journal indexed on PubMed Central and Emerging Sources Citation Index. The journal publishes experimental and theoretical research papers and…

Alp Sehirlioglu, associate professor of materials science and engineering at ����APP, was honored as a fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) this May. Sehirlioglu was one of 19 members of ACerS to be named a 2022 fellow, an accolade recognizing scholars for their…

Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, was elected to the board of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs.  The council seeks engagement in international affairs through education, citizen diplomacy and public dialogue. Programs develop global awareness and address…

Deepak Sarma, professor of Indian religion and philosophy at ����APP, was recently named to two external positions. He was elected the vice president of the Grateful Dead Studies Association, an interdisciplinary academic organization for the study of the American rock band…

Eileen Anderson, director of education for the bioethics and medical humanities programs at ����APP School of Medicine, was recently appointed as a faculty member of the Judicial College of Ohio’s Supreme Court. In her new position, Anderson will design and teach courses…

Dean Tufts’ facilities experience ranges from leading a U.S. Navy mobile construction battalion in Iraq to driving the 21-day build of a COVID-19 field hospital at a large public university. But in the 33 years since he earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, he’s never worked at…

More than 300 faculty members from ����APP have been named in the Stanford University - Elsevier list of the top 2% most-cited scientists in various disciplines worldwide. The database is created by experts at Stanford University, based on data from Elsevier’s Scopus, the…

Adrianne Fletcher, assistant professor and assistant dean for diversity and inclusion at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was appointed to serve as the first director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at the Supreme Court of Ohio. As the director of DEI, Fletcher will assist…