Awards

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July 18, 2025
The Staff Advisory Council’s Staff PARTicipation Achievement (SPARTA) Award recognizes remarkable staff members who consistently go the extra mile at ӰƵ.
These standout individuals embody the true spirit of SPARTA—showing pride, passion, and purpose in everything they ...

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July 18, 2025
Bijoya (Bijou) Basu, an MD-PhD candidate at ӰƵ, 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 early-care...

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July 18, 2025
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 science t...

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July 18, 2025
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 diversi...

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July 16, 2025
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 such a sub...

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July 03, 2025
CWRUbotix, ӰƵ’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 ope...

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June 30, 2025
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 les...

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June 13, 2025
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 SPRQ ...

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June 13, 2025
An interdisciplinary team of ӰƵ faculty members received a two-year, $60,000 Faith and Health Campus Grant from Interfaith America.
The collaborators on this award are:
Justine Howe, associate professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the College ...

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June 13, 2025
Abhinendra Singh, assistant professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case School of Engineering, was recently awarded a Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Grant by the American Chemical Society.
The goals of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Rese...