Awards

Earlier this year, Nicholas P. Ziats, professor of pathology, anatomy and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University, received the Society for Biomaterials’ (SFB) 2025 Founders Award at its national meeting in Chicago. The highest honor of the society, this award recognizes…

It only took an instant for all of Akua Abrah’s career ideas to shift. Peering into the eyes of an infant at an orphanage in Ghana, she tossed aside her aspirations of becoming a veterinarian—inspired by repeated viewings of Eddie Murphy’s Dr. Doolittle. Though she had yet to hear the word…

The Staff Advisory Council’s Staff PARTicipation Achievement (SPARTA) Award recognizes remarkable staff members who consistently go the extra mile at Case Western Reserve University. These standout individuals embody the true spirit of SPARTA—showing pride, passion, and purpose in everything…

Bijoya (Bijou) Basu, an MD-PhD candidate at Case Western Reserve University, was named a recipient of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP). This is a national recognition sponsored by the NIH to identify and support exceptional…

Avnish Gupta, a rising third-year biology student, was selected for the Amgen Foundation’s Scholars Award. This award offers undergraduate students a summer research experience—hosted by University of California San Francisco in partnership with 14 universities—focused on health-related…

As founder and president of the Eleos Association, recent CWRU pre-med undergraduate Reda Riffi has led regional programs and secured international funding to uplift children through nutrition, education, health advocacy, mentoring and cross-cultural dialogue. Riffi’s work has helped advance…

CWRUbotix, Case Western Reserve University’s undergraduate robotics team, won first place overall in the 2025 MATE ROV World Championship last month. CWRUbotix competed alongside 25 other teams from around the world that qualified for the World Championship. Hosted in Alpena, Michigan, this…

Xu Han (GRS ’14, biology; GRS ’21, pharmacology), a postdoctoral scholar in the Nieman Lab in the Department of Pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has been named one of three global recipients of the 2025 Fundamental Research Career Development Awards by the…

In January 2024, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation awarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences a five-year, $5 million grant to support scholarships for promising master’s degree students, known as “Mandel Scholars.” “It is rare to receive…

CWRUbotix, Case Western Reserve University’s robotics team, won first place in the 2025 MATE ROV World Championship last month, beating 26 university teams from around the world that qualified in the Explorer class. Hosted in Alpena, Michigan, this competition challenged teams to deploy remotely…