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Cleveland-based RoadPrintz Inc. receives $1M from National Science Foundation to advance mobile robotic pavement-marking system
RoadPrintz Inc., a company co-founded by Case Western Reserve University engineering professor Wyatt Newman, has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award of nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support ongoing research and development of the company’s…
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Blending wellness strategies with the art of ‘improv’
Case Western Reserve University researchers to use acting method, wellness strategies for teens with anxiety issues; supported by National Endowment for the Arts Behavioral research at Case Western Reserve University, which aims to help teens overcome anxiety by blending the power of established…
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Findings open the way to more precise diagnoses and treatments of Alzheimer’s disease
Case Western Reserve University-led research team discovers why some cases result in rapid decline and death An international team led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has made a significant breakthrough in understanding why Alzheimer’s disease progresses so rapidly in some…
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Revitalizing Northeast Ohio by boosting its manufacturing ‘community’
National Science Foundation grant funds Case Western Reserve University-led team seeking to modernize industry as key to helping surrounding neighborhoods Case Western Reserve University engineers, computer scientists and social scientists are leading a project to help modernize small- and…
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Different strokes: Using artificial intelligence to tell art apart
Case Western Reserve University scientists, artists collaborate to develop art algorithm that can distinguish different painters’ brush strokes “at the bristle level” A team of scientists and art historians at Case Western Reserve University say they have used tools of artificial intelligence (AI)…
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A new tool in the fight against rectal cancer
Case Western Reserve-led team to test artificial intelligence medical imaging to determine which rectal cancer patients need surgery—or can avoid it Building on its successes in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to medical imaging to enhance treatment of other diseases, a Case Western Reserve…
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Artificial intelligence supercomputer to ‘accelerate research’ at Case Western Reserve University
Computer and data science chair obtains high-powered computer system with support from National Science Foundation, Ohio Department of Education More than 250 researchers across nearly two dozen research groups—from computer science to materials science to robotics—will benefit from the faster and…
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Taking antiviral aim to stop COVID-19 and possible future viruses in their tracks
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University, Duke and Rutgers lead work to understand how the novel coronavirus’s tangled RNA could help treat infected people Scientists at Case Western Reserve, Duke, and Rutgers universities have identified compounds within the coronavirus genome that have…
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Researchers warn of next ‘wave’ of opioid overdose deaths
Case Western Reserve University and Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office on front lines of another epidemic plaguing nation When Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson issued a public health warning earlier this month, the cause wasn’t COVID-19—but drugs. Over a 48-hour period Nov. 6…
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New method for enabling a more reliable electric grid
U.S. Department of Energy invests $3 million in better-than-lithium batteries being developed by Case Western Reserve University chemical engineers Case Western Reserve University chemical engineers are working on a new generation of smaller, safer and less expensive batteries they say could allow…