CLEVELAND -- Several Case Western Reserve University faculty and programs were among winners or finalists in Northern Ohio Live magazine's annual Awards of Achievement issue.

Among winners were four programs with CWRU connections:

• The Campaign for the College of Arts and Sciences topped the fundraising category. "Launched in 1994 with a goal of $50 million, it raised more than $90.5 million," the magazine notes. The magazine award honored campaign co-chairs Dorothy Humel Hovorka, and Morton and Natalie Epstein, along with former co-chair Theodore Castele.
• Research on deep brain stimulation was the winner in the health and medicine category. Deep brain stimulation allows doctors to use mini electrodes to deliver targeted electronic stimulation to try to reduce or eliminate tremors associated with diseases such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis. Honorees were Cleveland Clinic doctors Ali Rezei and Erwin Montgomery, and CWRU's Warren Grill, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the Case School of Engineering.
• Studies seeking to achieve a deeper understanding of Alzheimer's disease resulted in the Karl Herrup, director of the University Memory and Aging Center (formerly called the University Alzheimer Center), and colleagues receiving top honors in the magazine's science and technology category. Herrup and co-researchers David Geldmacher and Yan Yang "found that the brain cells of patients with Alzheimer's show attempts at cell division in cells that are not supposed to divide," the magazine noted. This process creates extra chromosomes in these cells, and eventually leads to the cells' death.
• Henry Adams, professor of art, shared winning honors in the visual arts category with Viktor Schreckengost. Adams organized an exhibit of Schreckengost's work at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where Adams is curator of contemporary painting.

Five finalists in the Awards of Achievement competition are related to the University:

• The Agnar Pytte Science Center was a finalist in the architecture category. Honored were Anthony Pearson, professor and chair of chemistry; Norman Rushforth, professor and chair of biology; and architects Robert Bostwick and Neall Distad of Collins Gordon Bostwick Architects. The magazine also recognized Kenneth Kutina, vice president for institutional planning, for his work in coordinating the project, which blends the Biology Building and Millis Science Center with the new Clapp Hall.
• The Internet Law Journal was a finalist in the IT/Internet resources category. Chris Gerstle founded the Internet Law Journal in 1999 while studying at CWRU's School of Law. The online publication provides law students with a forum to explore how e-commerce and law will intersect on the Internet.
• The Sculpture Center's Conservation Program was a finalist in the preservation/renovation category. Among honorees involved with this effort is Juilee Decker, a Ph.D. student in art history.
• Efforts on sequencing the human genome led to finalist honors for several researchers in CWRU's Department of Genetics -- Professor Joseph Nadeau, Assistant Professor Evan Eichler, and student Jeffrey Bailey, who participates in CWRU's M.D./Ph.D. Medical Scientist Training Program.
• Catherine Albers, associate professor of theater arts, was a finalist in the theater category for her role in Wit at the Dobama Theater. Albers played the feature role as an English professor dying of cancer in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Margaret Edson.

The late Ichabod Flewellen received a special award from the magazine for his work on the African American Museum on Crawford Road. Flewellen began collecting materials for the museum in 1953. He transferred his collection to the East Cleveland Public Library before his death in July at age 85. Flewellen became CWRU's oldest graduating senior in 1993 at age 76.