2022 Honors & Awards
CORE FACULTY
Lawrence Bonassar
Awarded 2022 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Orthopaedic Research Society.
Ilana Brito
Awarded BMES-Cell and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Rising Star Junior Faculty Award.
Jonathan Butcher
Awarded 2021 Single Ventricle Research Fund (SVRF) award from Additional Ventures.
Iwijn De Vlaminck
Awarded BMES-Cell and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Rising Star Junior Faculty Award.
Jan Lammerding
Elected fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), and American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB); article, "Nuclear Deformability Constitutes a Rate-Limiting Step During Cell Migration in 3-D Environments" named among CMBE journal's top 10 most cited.
Alex Kwan
Awarded 2022 Rising Star Research Award from One Mind™ in collaboration with COMPASS Pathways plc.
Karl Lewis
Featured on NPR's Academic Minute.
David Putnam
Named Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.
Chris Schaffer
Elected fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Marjolein van der Meulen
Inducted Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) president; elected fellow, International Orthopaedic Research (FIOR) of the International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies (ICORS).
Mridusmita Saikia & Shivaun Archer
Selected James McCormick Family Teaching Excellence Institute (MTEI) Course Redesign Award (2022-23), Cornell Engineering.
STUDENTS & POSTDOCS
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Lindsay Browning (M.Eng.) finalist for ECAC female student athlete of the year and for national women's hockey player of the year; named female senior athlete of the year by The Cornell Sun.
Allison Chen (Alabi & DeLisa Labs) awarded a 2021 Cornell University fellowship award.
Aminat Ibrahim (Butcher Lab) selected as a recipient of the 2021-2022 Anthony Ihedoha Anaebere, Sr. Memorial Scholarship Award.
Jeremiah James (Rong Wang Lab) received honorable mention for first year graduate student of the year from Cornell's Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE).
Liz-Audrey Kounatse (De Vlaminck Lab) presented a poster at the annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education.
Emily Laurilliard (Cosgrove Lab) received a 2022 BMES-CMBE conference graduate student travel award; awarded a 2022-23 stem cell research training fellowship from Cornell's Stem Cell Program, supported by the Cornell Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI).
Joseph Long (Lammerding Lab) won a Cornell biomedical engineering TA of the Year award.
Jason (Chang) Marvin (Andarawis-Puri Lab) awarded provost diversity fellowship for advanced doctoral students from the Cornell Graduate School; Orthoregeneration Networking (ON) Foundation education grant and Caroline Coffey Fund Travel Award to attend the ORS Annual Meeting; Zellman Warhaft Graduate Student Award from Cornell's Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE); Exemplary Service – Advanced Graduate Career Award from Cornell's Office for Inclusion and Student Engagement (OISE) and Graduate and Professional Student Diversity Council (GPS-DC); first-place for the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) Tendon Section 3-Minute Thesis competition; selected to participate in the 2021-2022 cohort of the Cornell NextGen Professors Program.
David McKellar (Cosgrove & De Vlaminck Labs) awarded a 2021-22 Cornell NIH T32 Immune-Engineering Predoctoral Fellowship.
Dominick Romano (Adie Lab) awarded a trainee stipend to present at the ISMRM Workshop on Perfusion MRI: From Head to Toe in Los Angeles, CA; accepted manuscript on summer immersion term work at Weill Cornell Medicine titled “Deployed Deep Learning Kidney Segmentation for Polycystic Kidney Disease MRI" to be published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence.
Nancy Ruiz-Uribe (Schaffer-Nishimura Lab) received Ephrahim Garcia Graduate Excellence in Mentoring Award from Cornell's Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE).
Brittany Schutrum (Fischbach Lab) received third place in the Society of Women Engineers WE21 poster competition.
Nicole Sempertegui (Fischbach Lab) awarded a 2022-23 stem cell research training fellowship from Cornell's Stem Cell Program, supported by the Cornell Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI).
Rick Zirkel (Schaffer-Nishimura Lab) received CU Empower Outstanding Peer Mentor Award from Cornell's Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE).
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Barakat Abdul awarded a diversity scholar award from Cornell’s Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE).
Parker Dean (Butcher Lab) presented an oral presentation at the BMES 2021 Annual Meeting in Orlando.
Raina Kikani awarded a 2021 Cornell Rawlings Presidential Research Scholarship; awarded a 2021 Cornell Engineering Learning Initiatives Fellowship.
Ave Kludze named a 2022 Kessler Fellow by Cornell Engineering; awarded a diversity scholar award from Cornell’s Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE).
Hannah Lim runner up, design & engineering category, at the annual Cornell Undergraduate Research Board (CURB) spring symposium.
Chanelle Moise received a Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) scholarship from Cornell's Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE).
Design by Jordan Johnson, Parker Dean and Ketaki Londhe selected for Johnson & Johnson’s engineering showcase.
POSTDOCS
Oliver Bracko (Schaffer-Nishimura Lab) accepted a faculty position at the University of Miami.
Stephanie Curley (Putnam Lab) accepted a position as the Mary H. ’80 and Richard K. Templeton ‘80 Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Union College (Schenectady, NY), starting September 1st.
Anthony D’Amato (Yadong Wang Lab) awarded an SOE seed grant to scale up solution electrowriting.
Rebecca Irwin (Delco Lab) awarded a 2022 Stryker/ORS Society Women’s Research Fellowship.
Sophia Ziemian (van der Meulen Lab) received a postdoc achievement award for excellence in mentoring from Cornell Graduate School.
ALUMNI
Daniel Dotse (M.Eng. ‘11) chosen a top 50 young CEO in Ghana.
John Huynh (Ph.D. ‘12, Reinhart-King Lab) appointed Chief Technology Officer of IconOVir Bio.
Leanne Iannucci (B.S./M.Eng. '17) awarded Orthoregeneration Networking (ON) Foundation education grant to attend the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting.
Andrea Ippolito (B.S. ’06, M.Eng. '07) closed $6 million in seed round funding for her company SimpliFed, a virtual platform focused on democratizing access to baby feeding services.
Stephanie Lindsey (Ph.D. ’16, Butcher Lab) awarded 2021 Single Ventricle Research Fund (SVRF) award from Additional Ventures.
Monet Roberts (Ph.D. ’19, Paszek Lab) joining Virginia Tech Biomedical Engineering & Mechanics as an assistant professor in 2023.
Elizabeth Wayne (Ph.D. ‘16, King Lab) awarded a $1.7 million NIH R35 grant, otherwise known as the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA), for macrophage polarization research.
MEET THE 2022 NSF FELLOWS
The Meinig School proudly congratulates the eight students who each won a 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP). The fellowship offers three years stipend support for 5 years to applicants selected through a national competition. Robert Hawkins, Maple Chen (undergraduate), Samantha Kraus, Coulter Ralston, Ambika Pachaury, Kylie Persson & Jeremiah James. (Rachel Honigsberg not pictured).
2022 Cornell intramural volleyball champions
Congrats to the 2022 Cornell intramural volleyball champions, including Ph.D. student Christine Harper and professor Jan Lammerding and field faculty member (Cornell CBE) associate professor Matt Paszek.