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Engineering’s Clare Rimnac receives lifetime achievement award
Clare Rimnac, Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Case School of Engineering, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA). Rimnac’s research…
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February 14, 2014
In 2010, two Case Western Reserve University graduate students launched the Brite Winter festival to celebrate the season. Four years later, the annual free arts and musical event has grown significantly—attracting some 20,000 people last year. And although its founders have since graduated, other…
February 13, 2014
Case Western Reserve University’s efforts to launch an undergraduate major in data science this fall just got a significant boost from a business leader who knows a great deal about the subject. Bob Herbold, the chief operating officer (COO) of Microsoft during its period of greatest growth, has…
February 12, 2014
Case Western Reserve University, in alliance with the Lincoln Electric Co. and a group of business partners, has been selected to lead a project to convert the laser hot-wire welding process developed by Lincoln Electric into a high-output, three-dimensional additive manufacturing process. The…
February 11, 2014
Researchers in the biomedical engineering department at Case Western Reserve University have found that epileptic activity can spread through a part of the brain in a new way, suggesting a possible novel target for seizure-blocking medicines. Evidence from a series of experiments and computer…
February 03, 2014
Services will be held on campus this Saturday in memory of longtime biomedical engineering professor Roger Marchant, who died last week at the age of 62. Marchant, who earned his master’s and doctoral degrees at Case Western Reserve, spent his entire professional career at the university. In…
January 02, 2014
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University received a $486,000 Doris Duke Foundation award to discover how to predict when sickle cell disease patients will suffer an acute crisis and monitor the effectiveness of treatments. For decades, scientists have known that during acute crises,…
December 20, 2013
The streets of Yangon, Myanmar, are jam-packed with cars, and a new Mercedes-Benz dealership has opened. People carry the latest smartphones and tablets. Electricity is sporadic and unreliable, though. And the city has open sewers. “It just feels like the place burst open to outside technology…
December 15, 2013
By relentlessly miniaturizing a pre-World War II computer technology and combining this with a new and durable material, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have built nanoscale switches and logic gates that operate more energy-efficiently than those now used by the billions in…
October 23, 2013
A 2012 trip to Brazil to explore opportunities for a single dual doctoral program this week evolved into a far-reaching commitment between the South American country and Case Western Reserve. The partnership calls for qualified Brazilian students to take graduate courses and earn advanced degrees…
October 22, 2013
Case Western Reserve University has appointed Robert F. Kirsch chairman of the biomedical engineering department and Kenneth A. Loparo chairman of the electrical engineering and computer science department. Kirsch and Loparo are prolific researchers, proven leaders among their peers and…