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Three faculty members in the ����APP Department of Mathematics have been named Simons Foundation Fellows and were granted funds to extend their upcoming sabbaticals to focus solely on research. Assistant professors Mark Meckes and Elizabeth Meckes plan to use their…

At the Intersections: SOURCE Symposium and Poster Session April 19, 17 students were honored for their oral and poster presentations. Those awarded were: Humanities Oral Presentations 1st: Anthony Castellaneta, “Philosophy of Mathematics in Ancient Indian Philosophies.” Faculty mentor: Deepak…

Winners of the Frances Payne Bolton Nurses Week photo contest were announced last week. The top six photos were awarded $50 gift cards for Amazon.com and made into web banners for the school's home page for Nurses Week, May 6–12. All entries also were entered into a drawing for a $25 Amazon.com…

Asha Singanamalli, a biomedical engineering student, received runner up for best student paper at SPIE Medical Imaging 2013. SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics. She beat out 40 other student papers and 7 other finalists with her paper, titled "Identifying in Vivo Dce MRI…

Paul Barnhart pushes fourth- and fifth-year students to become problem solvers before they leave for graduate school or engineering careers. “I don’t ask them questions that have answers in the back of a book,” said Barnhart, a ����APP associate professor of aerospace and…

Anthropology’s Eileen Anderson-Fye started the academic year by giving the first-ever faculty address to the incoming undergraduate class. She finished it by becoming the only person in university history to win its top award for undergraduate teaching 12 months after claiming the campus prize for…

Two winners of the inaugural 2013 Flora Award—from the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women—will be honored in a free, public event May 21 at 4:30 p.m. at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The historical society is an institution with ties to the late social justice advocate and…

Fourth-year engineering student Alan Filer has won a Fulbright scholarship to travel to South Korea in the fall. There, he’ll explore ways to make cheaper and cleaner alternatives to costly and toxic materials used in solar panels. Filer, who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in materials…

What makes social work professor Mark Singer such an effective mentor is he never forgets the challenges he faced as a ����APP graduate student.  He recalls the heavy workload and preparations for his doctoral exam, financial burdens and all-consuming researching and…

Daniela Calvetti’s efforts as chair of the mathematics department, teacher, mentor, adviser, researcher, role model—the list goes on—funnels down to a simple philosophy. “Each student has potential and has dreams and has goals, and it’s my job to make it easier for them to achieve these,” Calvetti…