Awards

Masterworks of Medicine: Selections from the Rare Book Collections of the Cleveland Medical Library Association—a book commissioned and published by the Cleveland Medical Library Association (CMLA)—has won the 2026 Librarians, Archivists and Museum Professionals in the History of the Health…

Karen Towne, a postdoctoral scholar at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and associate professor at the University of Mount Union School of Nursing, was recently selected as the 2026 Midwest Nursing Research Society’s Population & Community Health RIIG Dissertation Award recipient.Towne…

Kristin Carter and Connie Kelling, instructors at Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, won first place in a quality improvement and informational poster presentation at the Ohio League for Nursing Conference held in Columbus last month. At the conference, Carter and Kelling shared their work…

Blessing Masanga, a first-year Case Western Reserve University computer science student, was honored with a second-place poster competition award at the 2026 Midwest Climate Collaborative Summit. The award recognizes her poster presentation titled “Departmental footprint: Redefining sustainability…

Donna Plecha, MD, chair of the Department of Radiology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was named the 2026 Impact Award recipient at the National Consortium of Breast Centers’ 35th annual Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference in Cleveland. This award is in honor of her…

In March, the Pittsburgh section of the American Ceramic Society awarded the J. Earl Frazier Memorial Scholarship to Jacob Akana, a second-year student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, in recognition of his research. This scholarship is…

Three Case Western Reserve University students in the Department of Classics—Nicholas Stewart, Eleanor Hirt and Iris Chen—won prizes for the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) International Latin Translation Exam. Each received a Certificate of Commendation, the…

Shilpa Gupta, MD, professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and director of genitourinary oncology at Cleveland Clinic, was honored with the European Association of Urology (EAU) Ambassador Award. This international honor is presented to distinguished experts who have…

The School of Nursing made gains in several categories and was well represented in newly ranked specialties.

Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), has devoted his life to advocating for basic human rights for all people—not only in his home country, but globally.A recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize, Mugisha has been…