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Three first-year students receive funding from Nestle Research & Development through innovation challenge
It isn’t everyday first-year students have the opportunity to work with industry professionals to solve real-world problems, but this semester three students are doing just that.  After pitching their ideas to researchers at Nestlé’s Research and Development Unit in Solon, Ohio, earlier this year,…
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When art and engineering collide
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…
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Student group travels to Uganda to finalize collaborative project aimed at improving reproductive health
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…
Quantum partners
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…
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Spartan Showcase: Usman Moazzam
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…
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New MDS3 Center of Excellence created through $14.2 million grant
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…
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SCSAM Fellow Spotlight: Claire Daugherty
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…
Graduation Spotlight: Maite Rey
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…
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Think writing a dissertation is hard? Try presenting one in three minutes
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…
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U.S. News & World Report belatedly releases some graduate, professional rankings
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…