Awards

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…

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…

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…

Troy Neptune has always been fascinated by the night sky. Now, that early curiosity is guiding a promising research career—and taking him across the globe. “I used to love looking at the Big Dipper and other stars in the night sky when I was a kid,” Neptune said. “But that privilege is becoming…

Megan Holmes, professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity, recently received an NICHD R01 to develop the first-of-its-kind, rigorously validated Sibling Prosocial Relationship Questionnaire (SPRQ). The…