Awards

Alex Matthews, a fourth-year DMD-MPH student, earned the Best in Show, Table Clinic award at the 2026 Ohio Dental Association (ODA) Annual Meeting. Matthews won the same award at the ODA annual meeting in 2024.In that time, he’s earned nine awards at the local, state and national levels.Learn more…

Tolulope Banjo, a medical student and third-year Master of Science in Clinical Research student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, was recently announced as the Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarship award winner at the Association of American Medical Colleges’ 27th…

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…

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 (APDIM) 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…

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…

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…