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August 12, 2015
Two years ago, as Case Western Reserve University Professor Harsh Mathur finished his lecture on superconductivity to his introductory physics class, he suggested that maybe one of the students in the audience would solve the 100-year-old challenge of superconducting at room temperature. Sylvester…
August 10, 2015
Services will be held this week for Ethan Schafer, PhD, (GRS '01, '04, psychology), an adjunct assistant professor of psychology who died unexpectedly Aug. 8 from a ruptured aortic aneurysm. He was 39. Schafer, a licensed child psychologist, specialized in treating children and adolescents with…
August 10, 2015
As the start of the fall semester at Case Western Reserve University approaches, students, faculty and staff members should should take extra care to safeguard the security and privacy of their university information technology accounts, particularly their Network IDs and passwords. Perpetrators…
August 10, 2015
More than 1,000 hours of video recordings, 6,000 photographs and other archival records of the Cleveland Performance Art Festival (PAF), an innovative event that brought international emerging artists to Cleveland from 1988 through 1999, have been donated to Case Western Reserve University’s Kelvin…
August 07, 2015
Case Western Reserve University will host Innovation Summit 2015: Models of Innovation to explore the opportunities and challenges of various models of innovation at the global scale. On Oct. 26 to 28, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, academic experts and policy makers nationally will examine how…
August 07, 2015
As a high school student in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, in the 1990s, Anant Madabhushi competed against thousands of students for a spot in the country’s premier medical and engineering schools. Then, his uncle, an engineer with General Electric in the United States, sent him a book on biomedical…
August 06, 2015
Case Western Reserve University’s supporters set 22 all-time records for fundraising in fiscal year 2015, including its eighth all-time record for attainment in the past nine years. That total of $166.9 million bested 2014’s record by $15.3 million—a figure nearly three times as high as the…
August 05, 2015
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has designated Case Western Reserve University’s Tinkham Veale University Center with a LEED Gold certification, an endorsement of the building’s energy and environmentally sensitive design and construction. LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental…
August 05, 2015
The recent acquisition of CardioInsight Technologies Inc., a privately held, Cleveland-based medical device company, will advance electrocardiographic mapping technology initially researched and developed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University’s Case School…
August 03, 2015
Next July, Cleveland will host the 2016 Republic National Convention, where state delegates will select the party’s presidential candidate. It will mark the third time the convention has been held in Cleveland—the first since 1936. And before the city ramps up to host an estimated 50,000 people…