After serving the Department of Chemistry for almost 40 years in many capacities including acting department chair and chair on separate occasions, Anthony J. Pearson, Rudolph and Susan Rense Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded the Department of Chemistry’s Morton L. Mandel Award for Outstanding Chemistry Faculty for 2021.
Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC) provides advice to the director of the Office of AIDS Research (OAR) in regards to the planning, coordination and evaluation of research and other HIV/AIDS activities conducted or supported by the NIH.
Nam Vo, a third year student in the Department of Classics and Physics, has won the Manson A. Steward Award. Given by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) to sophomore or junior level undergraduate students, recipients of the award have shown achievement and potential in classical studies over the course of the academic year.
Claudia Bashian-Victoroff, PhD student in the Department of Biology and Holden Arboretum, is the co-founder of the International Congress of Armenian Mycologists (ICAM). In addition to her research, which focuses on forest ecology with a specific interest in mycology and mycorrhizal ecology, Bashian-Victoroff is a proud member of the Armenian diaspora, the motivating factor behind ICAM.
Joy K. Ward, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected to serve as a member and chair of the Directorate Advisory Committee (DAC) for the Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate (EBSD) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Before returning to Case Western Reserve University for graduate school, Maura Plocek, who is working towards her masters in biology, taught local high school students at the Albert Einstein Academy (AEA). Now, she is taking what she’s learned in Developments in Human Evolutionary Biology to teach an integrated lesson to those very same high school students.