Awards

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…

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),…

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)…

Eight Case Western Reserve University faculty and staff members have been recognized by Who’s Who in Black Cleveland, an organization that celebrates outstanding African American achievement and leadership throughout the Cleveland community and across a variety of industries.Those recognized in the…

Mehran Moghadam, research assistant in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, and M. Hassan Najafi, PhD, associate professor of engineering, earned the best paper award at the 2026 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design. The duo received the award for…

Xiong (Bill) Yu, Opal J. and Richard A Vanderhoof Professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, recently received the Ohio Sea Grant Award, granted by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and The Ohio State…

Gourav Datta, assistant professor of electrical, computer and systems engineering at Case School of Engineering, and a team of researchers were recently awarded a $912,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate resilient and energy-efficient generative AI for secure hospital…