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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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September 26, 2018
Developing device to expand global access to safe drinking water
Update: The CWRU team selected as bronze winner in the graduate competition.
A team of student innovators from Case Western Reserve University, developing a device to expand access to clean drinking water globally, was chosen a finali...

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September 19, 2018
Students are invited to an information session on the Global Health Design in Uganda spring break travel course Friday, Sept. 21, at 12:30 p.m. in Wickenden Building, Room 328.
Attendees will hear from past participants and meet faculty leaders Janet McGrath, professor of anthropology, and Andrew R...

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September 05, 2018
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced the winners of its 2018 Patents for Humanity program, an initiative promoting game-changing innovations to address long-standing development challenges.
Umut Gurkan, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aer...

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August 17, 2018
Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, will present “Polymers and manufacturing: a space flow chemistry perspective” at the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in Boston Monday, Aug. 21.
The ACS invited him to speak about chemical and polymer manufact...

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July 27, 2018
A team of researchers from the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) and University Hospitals were awarded a patent by the U.S. government.
Led by Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, the team was issued a patent in radiomics-ba...

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July 27, 2018
Chris Yingchun Yuan, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, received the Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
About the award
Established in 2011, the award recognizes a manufacturing researcher under 40 for sign...

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July 20, 2018
A team of researchers from the Case School of Engineering and School of Medicine published the first research paper on their blood-clotting device, ClotChip, in the Journal of Thrombosis and Hemostasis.
The authors of the paper are:
Debnath Maji, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer...

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July 11, 2018
Technology developed by Case Western Reserve researchers; licensed by Technology Transfer Office
XaTek Inc., a Cleveland-based company developing a portable sensing system that can quickly assess the clotting ability of a person’s blood, recently raised $9.1 million in Series A capital to further ad...

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July 10, 2018
New research links excessive artificial light to developmental issues in toads; possible connection to worldwide amphibian crisis
A pair of researchers at Case Western Reserve University are suggesting that excessive, human-caused artificial light at night may be contributing to a worldwide amphibia...

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June 29, 2018
President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that the leader of one of the nation’s top programs for electrical and computer engineering will become the Case School of Engineering’s next dean this fall.
An accomplished researcher in system and control theory, Venkataramanan “Ragu” Balakrishnan has s...