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President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III announced today that Carol M. Musil will serve as interim dean of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing for the 2018–19 academic year. A double alumna and longtime faculty member of the nursing school, Musil also is a former chair of the…

Jonathan H. Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at ����APP School of Law, is among 34 newly elected members of the prestigious American Law Institute (ALI). The 90-year-old institute comprises…

Professor Fady Faddoul has been named chairman of the Department of Comprehensive Care at the School of Dental Medicine. In addition to housing the clinical components of the school’s Doctor of Dental Medicine program, the department includes the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program,…

Four faculty members and seven alumni of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing were named to the 2018 class of fellows for the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). In total, CWRU affiliates represented 11 of 195 members of this year’s class. The faculty fellows are: Celeste Alfes, associate…

Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, was elected to membership in the National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippines, one of the highest honors the country awards scientists. Advincula was officially inducted at the Investiture Ceremony in Manila…

Nick Gurski, assistant professor of mathematics, has been appointed as a founding editor of the new journal Compositionality, named after the principle that describes and quantifies how complex things can be assembled out of simpler parts. The open-access journal will feature research using…

President Barbara R. Snyder and Provost Ben Vinson III today announced the reappointment of Pamela B. Davis as dean of the School of Medicine and senior vice president for medical affairs. Davis, who has led the school since 2006, has accepted this reappointment but will return to the faculty…

Manish Valiathan, associate professor of orthodontics, pediatric dentistry and plastic surgery and director of the Craniofacial, Surgical and Special Care Orthodontics Fellowship, was named assistant dean for clinical affairs at the ����APP School of Dental Medicine. In…

Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, was invited to join the editorial review board of Transnational Corporations as it transitions to a more academically rigorous, relevant format. The journal is an official, refereed research journal on issues related to…

President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that the leader of one of the nation’s top programs for electrical and computer engineering will become the Case School of Engineering’s next dean this fall. An accomplished researcher in system and control theory, Venkataramanan “Ragu” Balakrishnan has…