Faculty
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James Antaki
SPROUT Award, Cornell Duffield Engineering
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Lawrence Bonassar
2026-27 Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) grant, Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR) in partnership with Fesarius Therapeutics
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Jonathan Butcher
SPROUT Award, Cornell Duffield Engineering
Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement
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Ilana Brito
2026 Multidisciplinary Seed Grant, Cornell Center for Immunology
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Nate Cira
Research Excellence Award, Cornell Duffield Engineering
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Iwijn De Vlaminck
SPROUT Award, Cornell Duffield Engineering
MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health
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Shaoyi Jiang
2026 Multidisciplinary Seed Grants, Cornell Center for Immunology
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Alex Kwan
2026 Teaching Award, Research Excellence Award, Cornell Duffield Engineering
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Jan Lammerding
SPROUT Award, Cornell Duffield Engineering
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Karl Lewis
SPROUT Award, Cornell Duffield Engineering
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Suelia De Siqueira Rodrigues Fleury Rosa
Featured cover article, Inside Chapel Magazine
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Chris Schaffer
Elected dean of faculty, Cornell University (3-yr term starts July 1); 2026 Teaching Award, Cornell Duffield Engineering
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Alexandra Werth
2024-2025 Innovative Teaching & Learning grant, Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI)
2026 Global Hubs Seed Grant, Global Cornell
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Kayla Wolf
Affinito-Stewart Grant, President’s Council of Cornell Women.
Faculty Promotions
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Gruber International Research Award, Society for Neuroscience
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Julien Morival (Lammerding Lab)
Selected, 2025 Rising Stars in Engineering in Health.
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Awarded Clinical and Translational Science Center grant, Weill Cornell Medicine.
Students
Undergraduates
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Antranig Baghdassarian ‘27
2026 Jiang Fellow, Entrepreneurship at Cornell
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Nathan Briard ’28
2026 summer research grant, Cornell Duffield Engineering Office of Inclusive Excellence
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Lauren Holt ’26
Ivy League Single-Season Home Run Record, Cornell softball
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Hannah Kersten ’28
2026 summer research grant, Cornell Duffield Engineering Office of Inclusive Excellence
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Ryan Lyppens ’26
Merrill Presidential Scholar, Cornell University
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Anisha Roy ’27
Jiang Fellow, Entrepreneurship at Cornell
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Emma Weiss ’26
Undergraduate Distinguish service award, Cornell Duffield Engineering Office of Inclusive Excellence
Graduate Students
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Subash Bhandari (Xu & Rudd Labs)
Second place, Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, Cornell Graduate School
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Alexander Cruz (Butcher Lab)
Graduate student of the year award, Cornell Duffield Engineering Office of Inclusive Excellence
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Cátia P. Dombaxe (Yadong Wang Lab)
Inducted, Bouchet Honor Society
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Rena Fukuda (Cira Lab)
Graduate excellence in mentoring award, Cornell Duffield Engineering Office of Inclusive Excellence
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Lauren Howe-Meagher, M.Eng. ’26
Selected, Ph.D. Research Fellow, University of Oslo StraDiVarious Doctoral Network European Union Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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AMINAT Ibrahim (Butcher Lab)
People’s Choice Award, Cornell Graduate School Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition
Exemplary Leadership and Service Award for Advanced Career Graduate Students, Cornell Graduate School Office of Inclusion and Student Engagement
Global Citizen Award, Cornell Office of Global Learning
Selected Cornell representative, AAAS CASE Workshop and Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C.
Elected fellow, National Institute of Professional Engineers and Scientists (NIPES)
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Cory Knox (Kwan Lab)
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowship, National Institutes of Health
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Shola Onissema-Karimu (Fischbach Lab)
Inducted, Bouchet Honor Society.
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Shenghao Tan (Cira Lab)
Graduate excellence in mentoring award, Cornell Duffield Engineering Office of Inclusive Excellence
Meet the 2026 NSF Fellows
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12 biomedical engineering students named NSF Graduate Research Fellows
The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program is one of the nation’s most prestigious.
Alumni
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Robby Bowles Ph.D. ’10
2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor, University of Utah.
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Lindsay Browning ’21
Richie Moran Award, Cornell Athletics
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Carolyn Chlebek Ph.D. ’22
New Investigator Recognition Award (NIRA), Orthopaedic Research Society
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Ashley Earle (Kaminsky) Ph.D. ’19
Tenure, Department of Mechanical Engineering at York College of Pennsylvania
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LaDeidra Monet Roberts Ph.D. ’19
2025 – 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor, Virginia Tech Office of Undergraduate Research
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Distinguished Alumni Award, Cornell Duffield Engineering
Teams
Cornell DEBUT
Advised by faculty member James Antaki
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Team MeyeAttention
First-place, AI/ML Related to Patient Disease Diagnostics category at the 2025 Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition, for a wearable device using pupillometry and machine learning to assess attention dysregulation and support ADHD diagnosis.
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2026 Albert R. George Student Team Award
$2,000 award recognizing the team’s dedication, commitment and support of student innovation.
Cornell Engineering Alumni Association
May 1, 2026
Cornell iGEM
Advised by faculty members Nate Cira and Mridusmita Saikia
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Team PRoSPER
Gold medal, Best Hardware and Best Space Project: for a modular bioreactor system using a microbial coculture to remove perchlorate from Martian regolith.
iGEM Grand Jamboree
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Team MaternaSense
Gold Award (first runner-up), International Student Track: for a non-invasive sweat patch designed to monitor hormonal changes before and after childbirth and help detect pregnancy-related complications.
HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition
September 2025, Hong Kong, China
Hackathons
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Lauren Howe-Meagher, M.Eng. ’26, Shruthi Gopi, M.Eng. ’26, Faith Nwando, M.Eng. ’26, Jacqueline Walker, MPH, M.Eng. ’26 and team Masticyte
Finalists: for a same-day diagnostic solution to detect bovine mastitis-causing pathogens.
Cornell Animal Health Hackathon
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Sally Scofield ’27, Molly Matri ’27 and team SurgeXR
Most Impactful Project: for an XR, computer vision and machine-learning system that automatically recognizes and tracks surgical instruments to improve operating-room safety and efficiency.
Cornell Health AI Hackathon
March 6–8, 2026
Entrepreneurship
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George Zeng ’27, Sally Scofield ’27 and the CerviCheck team
eLab 2025–26 cohort: developing a biomedical device that measures cervical tissue properties to provide more objective prediction of preterm birth and improve clinical decision-making.