Awards

Ronda Mourad, MD, an associate program director in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was announced as the recipient of the 2027 Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDI) Distinguished University Associate Program Director/Core…

Jessica Rosenblatt, assistant director of marketing and box office at Maltz Performing Arts Center, was recently featured in Cleveland Jewish News’ NextGen Series. This biweekly feature highlights the next generation of Jewish community members in Northeast Ohio. About RosenblattJessica…

Case Western Reserve University was well represented at the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s 14th annual Best of Tech Awards, with multiple members of the CWRU community named as finalists and several taking home awards. Among this year’s winners were CLEANR, Crabline Robotics and Sears think[box],…

Christopher Wirth, PhD, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Case Western Reserve University’s Case School of Engineering, received the L.E. Scriven Young Investigator Award earlier this month. Presented at the International Society of Coating Science and Technology…

Zul Kazeem, a PhD student in the Department of Civil Engineering, received the Outstanding Graduate Student Member Award from the Society of Women Engineers in July 2026.The award recognizes a graduate student member who has made outstanding contributions to the Society of Women Engineers (SWE),…

Phoebe L. Stewart, PhD, professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R37 Merit Award for the project “Molecular mechanisms of adenovirus neutralization.”The award is listed by NIH as project number…

Vipin Chaudhary, PhD, chair of the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at Case School of Engineering, received a $600,000 National Science Foundation award for the project “Elements: ForteFAI - Trustworthy AI Cyberinfrastructure for Guardrailing Multimodal Foundation Models and…

Emilio Blythe, a fourth-year undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University, received scholarships from the Stoddard Jones 38 Endowed Scholarship Fund and the Cornelius G. Scheid Scholarship Fund in spring 2026.Blythe began conducting research under Janet L. Gbur, PhD, during his first…

Paul Rose, JD, dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and Matthew Salerno, JD, associate professor of lawyering skills, were featured in the 2026 Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia. Given by The National Law Review, this recognition honors educators, administrators, researchers and…

Alexander Nemecek, a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, received the best paper award at the Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Generative AI (APAI) Workshop at the IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)…