Awards

At the 2025 Alumni Association Awards Luncheon—a centerpiece event of Homecoming and Reunion Weekend—guests celebrated a quintet of Case Western Reserve alumni making a difference in Cleveland, on campus and beyond. President Eric W. Kaler presented this year's awards, which recognized graduates…

When J. Alan Diehl arrived at Case Western Reserve University in 2019, the Department of Biochemistry in the School of Medicine was at a crossroads—ready for a renewed sense of purpose and direction. Six years later, under Diehl’s leadership as chair, the department’s faculty headcount has more…

Walter F. Boron, Distinguished University Professor and the David N. and Inez Myers/Antonio Scarpa Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, recently was awarded the Scandinavian Physiological Society's 2025 Christian Bohr Prize.…

Case Western Reserve University’s Emerging Computing Technologies (ECT) Lab has been named one of three winners of NASA’s Beyond the Algorithm: Novel Computing Architectures for Flood Analysis Challenge. Out of nine national finalists, the CWRU–University of Louisiana at Lafayette team—known as…

Nrupen Pakalapati, a researcher in Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named among eight winners of the American Epilepsy Society’s (AES) 2025 Grass Foundation Young Investigator Award. This highly competitive award recognizes outstanding young…

Earlier this month, Sears think[box] at Case Western Reserve University was recognized at the Greater Cleveland Partnership’s 19th annual Best of Tech Awards, which celebrates the organization’s commitment to fostering innovation across Cleveland’s technology community. Recognized through an…

In 2008, the Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award was established at Case Western Reserve University to honor distinguished teaching in the SAGES program (now Academic Inquiry Seminars), part of the university’s core undergraduate curriculum. Each year, students are invited to nominate instructors who…

Earlier this month, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Rania Ziar, a PhD student, and advisor Paul Tesar, professor in the Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, were named to the HHMI Gilliam Fellows Program 2025 cohort. This program—which supports graduate students and…

Up to 70% of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience chronic digestive issues—and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine’s Marissa Scavuzzo wants to not only understand why, but to determine how to treat it. Her latest research into the gut’s role in children with ASD…

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…