Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating new opportunities across education, research, innovation, and workforce development at Case Western Reserve—and the potential is endless. Alumni, donors, foundations, and corporate and community partners can help grow this work through giving, sponsorship and collaboration that expand impact across campus and beyond.
Support AI at CWRU
Philanthropic support helps CWRU grow the people, programs, and tools that power AI education and innovation. Through your gift, you can advance student learning, faculty innovation, interdisciplinary research, and responsible AI initiatives across campus.
Areas of support may include:
- Student access to AI tools, training, and learning opportunities
- Faculty innovation in teaching and curriculum design
- Interdisciplinary AI research and discovery
- Strategic infrastructure, platforms, and campus-wide resources
Funding & Collaboration Opportunities
At CWRU, we support AI innovation through targeted funding, pilot programs, and collaborative initiatives across the university.
Consider getting involved through one of the following opportunities:
- AI Pedagogy Grants: Support faculty in exploring innovative approaches to teaching and learning with AI
- Google Cloud Platform Grant Program with the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC): Expand access to Google Cloud Platform resources for AI-enabled research, innovation, and experimentation
- think[box] Embedded AI Microgrants: Support students in building and deploying real-world AI systems on embedded hardware, bringing machine learning off the screen and into physical devices.
- AI Integration Fund: Support student-led exploration, projects, and applied learning with AI.
To learn more or get involved, contact cwruai@case.edu.
Why It Matters
CWRU’s mission is to improve and enrich lives through education, research, collaboration, and innovation. Support for AI at CWRU advances that mission by creating opportunities for students to lead, faculty to innovate, researchers to discover, and partners to help shape work that has real and lasting impact.
We value the contributions of corporate partners and community organizations who help strengthen this work through shared expertise, applied projects, workforce development, innovation, and broader public impact. These partnerships are essential to building an AI future that is ethical, practical, human-centered, and responsive to the needs of our campus, our region, and society more broadly.