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Engineering Dean Jeffrey L. Duerk named IEEE fellow
Jeffrey L. Duerk, dean of the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, has been named a 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow for contributions to rapid magnetic resonance imaging technologies. He joins an exclusive group of scholars in this…
Engineering’s LaShanda Korley helps organize Kavli Frontiers of Science workshop
LaShanda Korley, the Climo Associate Professor and Kavli Fellow in the Case School of Engineering, traveled to Japan this week as a planning group member for the 14th Japanese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium, sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Japan Society for the…
Platelet mimicry technology halts bleeding faster, may have broad use in medicine
Artificial platelet mimics developed by a collaborative research team from Case Western Reserve University and University of California, Santa Barbara, are able to halt bleeding in mouse models 65 percent faster than nature can on its own. For the first time, the researchers have been able to…
Researchers discern the shapes of high-order Brownian motions
For the first time, scientists have vividly mapped the shapes and textures of high-order modes of Brownian motions—in this case, the collective macroscopic movement of molecules in microdisk resonators—researchers at Case Western Reserve University report. To do this, they used a record-setting…
CWRU team wins "NASA Tech Briefs" Create the Future Design Contest
A team from Case Western Reserve University won first prize in the Medical Category of the 2014 NASA Tech Briefs Create the Future Design Contest. The team, led by Yunus Alapan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student and PhD candidate in the Case School of Engineering…
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak coming to CWRU for Q&A Oct. 4
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will answer questions from the Case Western Reserve University community when he appears on campus this Saturday. “Creativity and Innovation: A Live Q&A with Steve Wozniak” will take place from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith…
Engineering’s Umut Gurkan named among top innovators by "MIT Technology Review"
Umut Gurkan, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was named to MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35—Turkey list. The magazine has compiled the list of scientists and innovators whose work is transforming the world’s technology for more than a decade. Gurkan accepted…
CWRU community members to participate in this weekend’s IngenuityFest
Scientists, inventors, artists, entrepreneurs and techies of all kinds will gather in Cleveland Sept. 26-28 for the 10th annual IngenuityFest, and Case School of Engineering representatives will join some of the region’s most creative minds in discussing and celebrating innovation. Case School of…
CWRU launches new course, “Energy, Engineering & Entrepreneurship”
With the support of a two-year grant from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), the Case School of Engineering, Weatherhead School of Management and Great Lakes Energy Institute (GLEI) have begun an interdisciplinary pilot graduate-level course on energy and…
CWRU wins grant to improve lifetime performance of ceramic fuel cells
Fuel cells generate electricity from fuels more efficiently and with fewer emissions per watt than burning fossil fuels. But as fuel cells age, their efficiency decreases. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University received an $800,000 Department of Energy grant to study how to make one type…