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Meet a researcher extracting the elements that could change everything
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case School of Engineering Member, Cancer Imaging Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Area of Focus: Developing advanced materials and processes to separate f-elements (lanthanides and actinides) with applications…
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November 06, 2015
A Case Western Reserve University team won first prize and $150,000 in the Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare for their project, Hemechip.
Yunus Alapan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student, led the team.
The Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare is a nati...
November 05, 2015
Ronald Hickman
A new $2.48 million federal grant will allow researchers at Case Western Reserve University to revise and test the effectiveness of an interactive avatar-based technology that helps users make end-of-life decisions well in advance of an emergency.
Each year, millions of Americans ar...
November 04, 2015
Michelle Leslie and Shannon Smith both had applied for the Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarships before.
Leslie, a PhD candidate studying macromolecular science and engineering, applied twice as an undergraduate. Smith, a senior studying m...
November 03, 2015
The Sherwin-Williams Co. announced plans to commit $1 million toward materials research through the Institute for Advanced Materials (IAM) at Case Western Reserve University.
With the commitment, the Cleveland-based producer of paints and coatings combines nearly 150 years as an international leade...
October 28, 2015
It’s not think[ box ] any more.
The innovation hub that opened earlier this month already has a new name: Sears think[ box ].
Or, more formally: the Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[ box ] at the Richey Mixon Building.
As part of events involved in the university’s Innovation Summit, Pr...
October 28, 2015
Sen Gupta adapting platelet technology to treat stroke and heart attack
Anirban Sen Gupta
A Case Western Reserve University researcher has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to transform clot-forming synthetic platelet technology into devices ...
October 21, 2015
DOE funds worldwide project to diagnose solar panel weaknesses, spur technologies to extend lifetime performance and predictability
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University will do an epidemiological, disease control‐type study of more than 5 million solar panels at hundreds of power plants ar...
October 19, 2015
Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors (SOURCE) will offer a seminar for students planning to apply for graduate school in the physical sciences and engineering. The one-hour seminar will be held Friday, Oct. 30, at 12:30 p.m. in Wickenden Building, Room 322.
The seminar will cove...
October 09, 2015
Mahdi Orooji, postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, won this year's Linda Arena Endowed Scholarship Award.
Orooji was selected for his project, which was titled "Computer Extracted Texture Fe...
October 07, 2015
Liming Dai led the team's research.
International team seamlessly bonds CNTs and graphene
An international team of scientists has developed what may be the first one-step process for making seamless carbon-based nanomaterials that possess superior thermal, electrical and mechanical properties in thr...