Honors and Awards 2023

CORE FACULTY

James Antaki
Elected fellow, National Academy of Inventors; awarded College Teaching Award, Cornell Engineering.

Shivaun Archer
Elected fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering; Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, John Swanson ‘61 ME in honor of his mother, Dorothy G. Swanson Award, Cornell Engineering.

Lawrence Bonassar 
Awarded 2023 Outstanding Achievement in Mentoring Award from Orthopaedic Research Society; AuriNovo 3D-printed ear transplant, created by 3DBio Therapeutics, a startup company co-founded with Daniel Cohen ‘04, M.S. ‘07, Ph.D. ‘10, named Grand Award Winner in the health category of Popular Science's 2022 list of "100 Greatest Innovations in 2022.

Jonathan Butcher
Awarded EPICC award, Cornell Engineering. 

Nate Cira 
Awarded Canaan Family Award for Excellence in Academic Advising—In Honor of Professor Bingham Cady, Cornell Engineering.

Ben Cosgrove
Appointed director of graduate studies. 

Newton de Faria
Awarded EPICC award, Cornell Engineering. 

Iwijn De Vlaminck
Awarded Teaching Award, Sprout Award, Cornell Engineering; with co-founders, secured $12M in pre-series A funding for Kanvas Biosciences startup.

Claudia Fischbach
Awarded 2023 Momentum Award, Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group of the Biomedical Engineering Society; EPICC award, Cornell Engineering. 

Shaoyi Jiang
Elected fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; awarded Sprout Award, Cornell Engineering. 

Jan Lammerding 
Awarded Canaan Family Award for Excellence in Academic Advising – In Honor of Professor Bingham Cady, Cornell Engineering.

Esak Lee 
Selected 2023 CMBE Young Innovator, Biomedical Engineering Society; James and Mary Tien Teaching Award, Cornell Engineering.

Karl Lewis 
Featured on NPR's Academic Minute.

Nozomi Nishimura
Awarded Sprout Award, EPICC Award, Cornell Engineering. 

David Putnam 
Elected fellow, Controlled Release Society; Samuel B. Eckert Professor in Engineering.

Bob Riter 
Appointed research advocate, National Cancer Institute Council of Research Advocates.

Mridusmita Saikia 
Awarded Teaching Award, Cornell Engineering. 

Chris Schaffer 
Elected fellow, Optica; Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Award, Sprout Award, EPICC Award, James M. and Marsha D. McCormick Advising Award, Cornell Engineering.

Marjolein van der Meulen 
Awarded RIB award, ORS Musculoskeletal Biology Workshop.

Yadong Wang
Elected fellow, National Academy of Inventors.

FACULTY PROMOTIONS

Ilana Brito
promoted to associate professor with indefinite tenure.

STUDENTS & POSTDOCS

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Garrett Beeghly (Fischbach Lab) Caroline Coffey Fund Travel Award to attend the 2023 Gordon Research Conference on the Physical Science of Cancer. 

Chris Brunkhorst (Schaffer-Nishimura Lab) NASA graduate student research grant to develop tools to study the effect of microgravity on fluid transport in the brain.

Allison Chen (Alabi, DeLisa Labs) 2023 Young Scientist Essay Contest award, Lasker Foundation.

Alex Cruz (Butcher Lab) with Jonathan Butcher awarded a Gilliam Fellowship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Cátia Dombaxe (Yadong Wang Lab) Exemplary Service Award-Early Career Student, Cornell's Diversity Programs in Engineering; Maribel Garcia Community Spirit Award, David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement; Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship, Cornell University.

Alikhan Fidai (Bonassar Lab) TL1 Training Award, Cornell Clinical and Translational Science Center.

Andrea Garcia-Ortiz (Lewis Lab) pinned a Dean’s Scholar, Cornell Graduate School.

Caleb Jones (Goldberg Lab) Mong Fellowship, Cornell Neurotech.

Joseph Long (Lammerding Lab) Biophysical Society Congressional Science & Technology Policy Fellow.

Menansili Mejooli (Schaffer-Nishimura Lab) second place poster award, Gordon Conference on Optics in Medicine and Biology.

Omary Mzava (DeVlaminck Lab) Research Excellence Award, Tanzania Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

Nada Naguib (Weisner Lab) Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship, Cornell University.

Yansong (Harry) Peng (Lee Lab) graduate fellowship, International Foundation for Ethical Research.

Cara Robertus (Putnam Lab) 2022 Merck GRAD Award, Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting in Montreal.

Brittany Schutrum (Fischbach Lab) third place, rapid fire research presentation contest at WE22 national conference of the Society of Women Engineers.

Nicole Sempertegui (Fischbach Lab) 2023 Pamela Delp Polashenski M.D. Breast Cancer Research Trainee Grant, Breast Cancer Coalition.

Regan Stephenson (Fischbach Lab) T32 Immunoengineering Training fellowship, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

Caroline Thompson (Bonassar Lab) Stem Cell Program training fellowship, NYSTEM.

Chase Webb (Yadong Wang Lab) Practicum Program, Cornell Center for Technology Licensing.

Chia-Wei Yeh (Yadong Wang Lab) paper selected, June 2023 cover of Macromolecular Bioscience.

Matt Whitman & Shola Onissema-Karimu (Fischbach Lab) awarded seed grant, Cornell Institute of Biotechnology.

Sean Kim, Leigh Slyker, Karan Vishwanath, Serafina Lopez, and Alicia Matavosian (Bonassar Lab) second place, 2023 ORS Business Innovation Competition.

Alex Clark, Leigh Slyker, Katherine Driscoll, and Garrett Beeghly (Christini, Bonassar, Butcher, Fischbach Labs) each received NIH National Research Service Award fellowships (F31).

Soph Ziemian & Tyler McNeill co-awardees, Robert Mozia service award.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Molly Eron and Feifei Long Merrill Presidential Scholar award, Cornell University.

Ajitesh Narayan Congressional Gold Award 2023, Congressional Award - United States Congress.

Ashmitha Sivakumar 2022 Laidlaw Scholar.

Design by Molly Eron, Danielle Frye, Katie McGarty, Veronica Vila & Chenglin Zhu Ronald ’57 and Frederick ’86 Fichtl Innovation Award, Entrepreneurship at Cornell.

POSTDOCS

Anthony D'Amato (Yadong Wang Lab) Fellow for New Ventures Pitch Session, Ignite Showcase 2023.

Matt Isaacson (Schaffer-Nishimura Lab) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for Alzheimer's Disease Research, BrightFocus Foundation. 

Nisha Kanaan (Putnam Lab) Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship, Cornell University.

Soph Ziemian (van der Meulen Lab) Young Investigator Award, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Annual MSK Repair & Regeneration Symposium.

ALUMNI

Jason (Chang) Marvin (Ph.D. ‘22) New Investigator Recognition Award, Orthopaedic Research Society.