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LaShanda Korley, the Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Case School of Engineering, is one of 78 young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s 18th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. The symposium will be held Sept. 13-15 at the General Motor...

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Barbara R. Snyder has been elected vice chair of the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF), the nation’s oldest organization dedicated to addressing the country’s most pressing academic and workforce challenges. “I am honored to have this opportunity to wo...

The Academy of Nursing Education’s National League for Nursing has selected Mary Quinn Griffin to be a member of its sixth group of fellows. Quinn Griffin, an associate professor in the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, was selected for her evidence of enduring and substantial contributions t...

Ruby L. Gibbons, a graduate student in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, recently was elected regional director of an Ohio chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Gibbons was elected to a two-year term as regional director of region eight, which includes Ashland, Coshocto...

Edwin B. Mayes has joined the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø community as director of First Year Experience. He will report directly to the vice president for enrollment management. In his new position, Mayes will be responsible for leadership and vision of all new student and parent programs as w...

Barbara Juknialis, administrative director of biomedical ethics, and Michael Gilkey, acting executive director of the National Center for Regenerative Medicine, have been elected to the Staff Advisory Council. Juknialis will be vice chair of the council, and Gilkey will be secretary. Their terms in ...

Globally, more women than ever took the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) in 2011. Diana Bilimoria, the first KeyBank professor of organizational behavior at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Weatherhead School of Management, believes this increase in women management students will bring new e...

Ruqaiijah Yearby, professor and associate director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently was named chair of the Student Life and Inclusion Subcommittee of the Strategic Planning Committee at the School of Law. Yearby’s term will run until 2014. In addition, she became a member of the Institutional Cu...

Daniel Scherson, the Frank Hovorka Professor of Chemistry and director of the Ernest B. Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences, recently was elected third vice president of The Electrochemical Society. He takes office May 12, during a year in which ECS celebrates its 110th anniversary. Founded ...

Christine Somosi has been named director of marketing and communications for the National Center for Regenerative Medicine and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. Somosi previously worked in the university’s enrollment management division, where she developed and implemented recruitment marketing comm...