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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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May 05, 2023
Last month, the most recent addition to the Putnam Collection was installed in the Kent Hale Smith building. The sculpture, created by local artist Lauren Yeager, features Igloo coolers—an expression of her approach to “collecting, curating, and re-imagining commonplace objects as sculptural compone...

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May 05, 2023
After five years of research and design, a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Anthropology, the Case School of Engineering and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, have developed a small, discrete, biodegradable pouch to be used for the disposal of the waste cre...
May 05, 2023
Cleveland Clinic and IBM recently unveiled the critical piece of their 10-year Discovery Accelerator partnership: a newly installed IBM Quantum System One, considered the first advanced computer system in the world devoted mainly to healthcare research.
Case Western Reserve will play a role in that...

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May 02, 2023
Usman Moazzam started his undergraduate education in Washington state but soon realized the university didn’t have an avenue for him to combine his interests in healthcare, math and computing.
That’s when he made what he calls “one of the best decisions I’ve ever made for myself” and transferred to...

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April 28, 2023
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), an agency the Department of Energy (DOE), responsible for enhancing national security through nuclear science, recently awarded Case Western Reserve University a $14.2 million grant for a new Center of Excellence (COE) named “Materials Data Scienc...

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April 27, 2023
For her SCSAM fellowship, Claire Daugherty, a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Mechanical Engineering, is characterizing the temporal evolution of immature porcine cortical bone microstructure. Daugherty is using immature porcine, or young pig bones, to better understand the properties ...
April 27, 2023
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Why did you choose this area of study?
I want to help expand the capability of drug delivery and medical devices.
What are your plans after graduation?
Continuing polymer research at CWRU while exploring different job paths.
Why did you choose CWRU?
The people and...

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April 26, 2023
Do you think you could summarize an 80,000-word dissertation in just 300 words? That’s the premise of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT™) competition, an event developed by the University of Queensland that’s now held at more than 900 institutions around the world, including Case Western Reserve Univers...

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April 25, 2023
Law, medical school lists to be published at some later date
After months of heated debate about the value and validity of U.S. News & World Report’s law and medical school rankings, the magazine belatedly released all graduate and professional school results today—except the ones for those two dis...

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April 21, 2023
Graduate student receiving a master's in computer science.
Why did you choose this area of study for an advanced degree?
I chose to get an advanced degree in computer science so I could learn more about artificial intelligence. I was exposed to the basics of AI during my undergrad, but I felt like...