For immediate release: October 8, 2003
For more information, contact Paula J. Baughn at 216-368-4440 or paula.baughn@case.edu

CLEVELAND—Case Western Reserve University has won three "Northern Ohio Live" Awards of Achievement—including one for President Edward M. Hundert's inaugural colloquium—and has 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 drew nearly 700 participants. Hundert co-hosted the colloquium in January with Cleveland Mayor Jane Campbell.

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 (LCME), the authority that grants accreditation to U.S. and Canadian medical degree programs, and 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.

The Case School of Medicine is the third medical school in LCME history to have ever received such high marks, the others being Wake Forest University and University of Rochester.

Onders' honor is for implanting an electronic breathing device into actor Christopher Reeve, which helps him breath off his respirator for limited times. 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 milstone in learning how to stop the mosquito-born lymphatic filariasis, commonly 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. The two innovators discussed their collaboration on the new home of the Weatherhead School of Management. In addition to Case, the Cleveland Museum of Art with support from the Musical Arts Association, presented the dialogue.

Honorable mention also was awarded to the university's experimental dance performance "Kinetic Shadows," in which dancers from Case's Mather Dance Center and musicians from the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) in Cleveland and dancers and musicians from the University of Southern California's Bing Theater in Los Angeles performed together-using Internet2 technology.

The work was choreographed and conceived by Gary Galbraith, Case associate professor of dance and principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, with the assistance of Karen Potter, director of the Case dance program. Thomas Knab, CIM director of distance-learning networking, will use his knowledge of connecting musicians for educational classes at CIM to produce the Internet2 performance.

About Case Western Reserve University

Case is among the nation's leading research institutions. Founded in 1826 and shaped by the unique merger of the Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University, Case is distinguished by its strengths in education, research, and service. Located in Cleveland, Case offers nationally recognized programs in the Arts and Sciences, Dentistry, Engineering, Law, Management, Medicine, Nursing, and Social Sciences. http://www.case.edu.

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