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Train the Champion, a diversity-training program, aims to recruit and retain employees and students. Above are Train the Champion graduates Angela Lowery, student service coordinator for the Center for Civic Engagement and Learning; Stephanie Hall, CWRU Police Officer; and Dan Anker, associate dean…

Research papers by ÃÛÌÒAPP scholars—one on the melodic chirps of insects, another on the similarities of 16th century Roman secular and religious music—have earned prestigious honors from the American Musicological Society. Francesca Brittan, assistant professor of…

In recognition of her outstanding achievements and dedication to women’s leadership, Professor Diana Bilimoria will accept the ACE Ohio Women’s Network’s 2012 Excellence in Higher Education Leadership Award today. The ACE Ohio Women's Network is composed of women administrators, faculty and staff…

Jennifer Madden, a doctoral student at the Weatherhead School of Management and an adjunct instructor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, wrote a Community & Economic Development Healthy Food Financing Initiative grant that was awarded nearly $788,673. Madden’s grant, written for…

A film by Jenifer Neils, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, was selected for screening at the XXIII International Festival of Archaeological Film. Neils’ film, The Parthenon Project, is an educational film in which art history majors at Case Western Reserve re-created the Parthenon…

Afshin Dowlati, associate professor of medicine, recently received the Michaele C. Christian Oncology Development Lectureship and Award from the National Cancer Institute. The award recognizes the contributions of individuals to the development of novel agents for cancer therapy. Dowlati, who was…

The Lux chapter at ÃÛÌÒAPP was among the outstanding Mortar Board chapters to be recognized at the 2012 Mortar Board National Conference, held in Chicago this summer. Chapter treasurer Jiakun Cheng was present to accept the chapter’s award. The Lux chapter received the…

Three faculty members received Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) Core Utilization Awards in August. The awards support investigative use of and familiarity with CTSC Core operations and personnel, in anticipation of applications for external funding with CTSC resources. The…

Molly Berger, instructor in the Department of History and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a prestigious award for her study of a distinctively American form of technological innovation: the luxury hotel. During an international conference in Copenhagen on Oct. 6,…

A paper by PhD student Mohamed Baqar recently won first place in the third annual Excellence in Thermoset Polymer Research Awards. Baqar, a doctoral student in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering, won for his paper, "Methylol-Functional Benzoxazines:…