Case Western Reserve University has won three "Northern Ohio Live" Awards of Achievement-including one for President Edward M. Hundert's inaugural colloquium-and received four honorable mentions.

The university's inaugural colloquium "Great Universities and their Cities," won the 2003 Award of Achievement in urban issues. The first-ever national colloquium exploring the relationships between universities and their cities drew nearly 700 participants.

Case's School of Medicine has been honored with "Northern Ohio Live" magazine's 2003 Award of Achievement in education for its flawless accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the authority that grants accreditation to U.S. and Canadian medical degree programs.

Raymond Onders, a faculty member in the medical school's department of surgery, also was recognized with an Award of Achievement in the science and technology category for implanting an electronic breathing device into actor Christopher Reeve. The breathing device was developed by Thomas Mortimer and his team in biomedical engineering.

Patricia Hunt from the medical school's genetics department and James Kazura from the department of medicine and Center for Global Health and Diseases, were finalists in the health and medicine category and received honorable mentions for their research breakthroughs this past year.

Kazura reached a breakthrough in learning how to stop the mosquito-born lymphatic filariasis, known as elephantiasis, while Hunt found evidence that low levels of a compound used in the manufacture of some plastic food and beverage containers and some baby bottles interfere with cell division in the eggs of female mice.

In the community events category, the university's public forum on art and management featuring renowned architect Frank O. Gehry and Cleveland philanthropist Peter B. Lewis was recognized with an honorable mention.

Honorable mention also was awarded to Case's experimental dance performance "Kinetic Shadows," in which dancers and musicians in Cleveland and at the University of Southern California's Bing Theater in Los Angeles performed together using Internet2 technology.

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