Awards and Honors 2025

Awards

• James Antaki

  Awarded James McCormick Family Advising Award, Cornell Engineering.

• Ilana Brito

  Inducted 2025 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering; named 2024 Innovation Fund Investigator, Pew Charitable Trusts.

• Nate Cira

  Awarded Sonny Yau ‘72 Excellence in Teaching Award, Cornell Engineering; Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award(MIRA) Award, National Institutes of Health.

• Benjamin Cosgrove

  Awarded EPICC award for purpose, teaching award, Cornell Engineering.

• Iwijn De Vlaminck

  Inducted 2025 fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

• Claudia Fischbach-Teschl

  Dr. Connie Eaves Award for Women in BME, University of British Columbia Vancouver.

• Shaoyi Jiang

  Awarded Research Excellence Award, Cornell Engineering; recognized with a special issue of the journal Langmuir dedicated to his research and lasting impact on the field.

• Alex Kwan

  Awarded SPROUT Award, Cornell Engineering.

• Esak Lee

  Awarded Faculty Early Career Development Award, National Science Foundation; selected, National Academy of Engineering Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2025.

• Karl Lewis

  Awarded James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, Cornell Engineering.

• Suelia De Siqueira Rodrigues Fleury Rosa

  First Place, 2025 FORTEC National Innovation Award; First Place, 2025 Prisma Innovation Residency Award; 2nd Place, 2025 Brazil National Innovation Challenge – “Health for All”.

• Marjolein van der Meulen

  Awarded EPICC Award for collaboration, Cornell Engineering.

• Krystyn Van Vliet

  Inducted 2025 fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

• Alexandra Werth

  EPICC Award for innovation, Cornell Engineering.

• Kayla Wolf

  Selected Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences, Cornell University.

• Karisa Bockley ’27

  Undergraduate Research Award, Cornell Engineering Alumni Association.

• Shohum Finkelstein ’26

  Inclusive Peer Educator of the Year (Tutor), Cornell Engineering Office of Inclusive Excellence.

• Eitan Jentis ’25

  2025 Merrill Scholar, Merrill Family Foundation.

• Hazuki Takahashi ’26

  2025 Optica Women Scholar.

• The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) undergraduate chapter

  2025 Student Organization Award, Cornell Engineering Alumni Association.

Cornell DEBUT

• Angela Altamirano ’25 and Emma Weiss ’26 and the SteadyStride sub-team

  First-place, mechanical/electrical category at the Medtronic/BMES Student Design Competition: , for a self-stabilizing cane for Parkinson’s disease.

• Ariella Avigad ’26, Kendal Phinney ’25, Aiko Shibata ’26 and Viviana Esquivel ’26 and the NanoLIST sub-team

  Healthcare Technologies for Low-Resource Settings Prize for a gold nanoparticle solution for non-invasive lead-in-saliva testing.

• Molly Matri ’27 and the HemBrace team

  National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities Low-Resource Settings Prize: for a smart triage system to estimate blood loss from postpartum hemorrhage.

Hackathons

• Nilabha Mukherjee, M.Eng. ’25, Vivian Hu ’26 and team DeTICKtives

  Most Novel & Innovative: for a solution providing easy detection of ticks in a timely and contactless manner.

  Animal Health Hackathon
  Jan 31- Feb 2, 2025

• Sophia Ayeni, M.Eng. ’25, and team VitalCore

  Grand prize, novelty & sustainability: for developing a sustainable building material from sorghum agriculture waste.

  Digital Ag Hackathon
  Feb 28- March 2, 2025

• Vivian Hu ’26 and team HiFive-SafeStep

  First place, biggest area of unmet need: addressing diabetes foot ulcers with a wearable device for those who don’t have time to take care of themselves.

  Health Tech Hackathon
  March 7-9, 2025

• Brendan McGarr, M.Eng. ’25, Sally Scolfield ’27 and team MaternaSense

  First place, biggest market disrupter: for “a noninvasive patch that uses lab-on-a-chip technology to monitor hormonal changes during pregnancy through a connected app.”

  Health Tech Hackathon
  March 7-9, 2025

• Heather Lukas ‘19

  2024 Caltech Demetriades – Tsafka – Kokkalis Prize in entrepreneurship.

• Diego Rey, Ph.D. ’10

  2025 fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

• Anne Meinig Smalling ‘87

  elected 18th chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees.

• Fei Xia, Ph.D. ’21

  hired assistant professor, University of California, Irvine.