The Daily recently featured eight outstanding graduates from Case Western Reserve, including Joshua Holmes, a physics major with a 4.0 GPA and a promising future as a medical researcher. But first, he’s riding out the pandemic on the family’s cattle ranch in northern California.
Shanna Beth McGee (GRS, MNO ’18), CWRU professor of theater and co-founder of the immersive theater company Shadow of the Run, wanted to find a way to help artists in the community financially impacted by COVID-19. She and a team that includes four more alumni presented 48 Zoom performances over 12 days, raising $4,000.
Karen Potter (GRS ’89), professor and chair of the Department of Dance, has been honored with the 2020 John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the education of graduate students through advising and classroom teaching.
After just three years at Case Western Reserve University, Andrea Milne, lecturer and SAGES teaching fellow, has received the J. Bruce Jackson, MD, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring. Milne is a 20th century U.S. historian specializing in gender, sexuality and patient advocacy around stigmatized diseases, especially HIV/AIDS.
Kenneth Singer, the Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and Director of the Engineering Physics Program, is one of four CWRU professors this year to receive the Faculty Distinguished Research Award. The honor recognizes those whose groundbreaking research has made waves within engineering, medicine, physics and nursing.
Elina Gertsman, the Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II in the Department of Art History and Art, has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, one of the world’s most prestigious honors given to scholars, scientists and creative artists.