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July 29, 2013
What happens if addicts get no high from the drugs they take? Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Illinois State University received a grant for $390,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to help answer the question. Addiction experts believe a mechanism that robs drugs of…
June 05, 2013
The Gelfand Engineering and Technology Education Fund in the Case School of Engineering has made funds available to support activities and training for pre-K-12 teachers and students to promote engineering and science educational programming. The education fund is part of the Leonard Gelfand STEM…
June 03, 2013
Portable, inexpensive diagnosis to enable more effective treatment
A group of researchers from Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are lining a vest with ultrasound sensors, signal processing electronics and other high-tech gear. Their goal is…
May 21, 2013
The 2013 MACRO Frontiers conference will be held June 6-8, in Hovorka Atrium at Case Western Reserve University. The conference is open to all faculty, staff and students, especially those interested in engineering, chemistry, biology and medicine. At the conference, attendees can explore the…
May 21, 2013
Some prostate cancer patients unnecessarily undergo surgery or harsh treatments because science fails to identify the differences between slow-growing and aggressive forms of the disease. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are developing…
May 17, 2013
Jing Li, associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, recently gave a keynote speech at Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO), which was held May 14-16 on the Carnegie Mellon campus, co-hosted by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of…
May 06, 2013
A team of Case Western Reserve University students is pushing Jell-O as brain food—to teach middle schoolers about engineering. For their efforts, the team won the Biomaterials Education Challenge and $2,500 prize at the Society of Biomaterials’ national meeting in April. Jell-O may be the…
May 06, 2013
Fourth-year engineering student Alan Filer has won a Fulbright scholarship to travel to South Korea in the fall. There, he’ll explore ways to make cheaper and cleaner alternatives to costly and toxic materials used in solar panels. Filer, who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in materials…
April 30, 2013
Tina He, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) mentored by Professor Philip Feng, won the Best Student Paper competition at the 8th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered &…
April 09, 2013
Led by scientists at Case Western Reserve University, researchers have turned to an unlikely model to make medical devices safer and more comfortable: a squid’s beak. Many medical implants require hard materials that have to connect to or pass through soft body tissue. This mechanical mismatch…