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From quickly spotting concussions on the field to changing how loved ones communicate across long distances, innovation from Case Western Reserve University students, faculty, staff and alumni was on display last week at CES. The international trade show in Las Vegas is where more than 170,000…

An elderly woman is laid on a stainless-steel table, her hands folded, with a white sheet covering her face. For many of the Case Western Reserve University students in this class—Perspectives on Dying and Death: Normalizing the Inevitable—it’s their first time seeing death up close. Maryjo…

Portable concussion screening, TV station in a box, a $200 3-D printer maker machine, augmented reality and more Case Western Reserve University will host 10 booths at CES 2017 with student, faculty and alumni founders. Their new or developing technologies include: a sideline test to keep an…

At Case Western Reserve, the power of young minds is demonstrated every day. Now, two women who exemplify this power are being honored for their early career and civic contributions. Lyvian Loh, a first-year part-time MBA student, and Jennifer Sweet, assistant professor of neurological surgery,…

International students are invited to submit questions and ideas for upcoming meetings designed to increase their understanding of U.S. law enforcement policies and practices. Among the many benefits of studying abroad is experiencing contrasts among countries, whether they involve higher…

Program renewed for second year; now accepting students and software ideas CWRUcible, a novel software development program based in the university’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO), proved so successful in its first year that it’s just been renewed for a second. The program teams Weatherhead…

HoloAnatomy, the mixed-reality app that Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic introduced last spring, has won yet another accolade. It is one of 50 winners of a 2017 Digital Edge Award, a competition so fierce that the organization managing it actually doubled the number of…

Two Case Western Reserve University researchers have been elected National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows for lifetime achievements and leadership in innovation and scientific discovery. Case School of Engineering Dean Jeffrey Duerk, the Leonard Case Professor of Engineering, and Francis…

Case Western Reserve University and ICBM Medical Inc. signed a one-year option-to-license agreement to commercially advance a low-cost, rapid catalytic biomarker technology that improves patient screening and monitoring for a range of clinical conditions, from concussion to prostate cancer. By…

In the early years of space exploration, a group of African-American women mathematicians, working behind the scenes for what is now NASA, helped the nation reach some of its greatest aeronautical achievements. Referred to then as “human computers,” the women operated in relative obscurity. But…