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Barendt named executive director of the Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems
Nick Barendt has been named executive director of Case Western Reserve University’s Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems (ISSACS). ISSACS was created in 2016 to empower faculty, students and partners to conduct research and catalyze breakthroughs in the emerging economy known as the “I...
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Understanding the smallest brain circuits
Case Western Reserve researchers reveal how anatomically distinct microcircuit brain networks suppress each other, compete and collaborate Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found a previously unseen pattern among the rapid-firing neurons inside the brain, one that reveals how disti...
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Cat-like 'hearing' with device trillions times smaller than human eardrum
Case Western Reserve University researchers make dynamic advances with new atomically thin device Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing atomically thin “drumheads” able to receive and transmit signals across a radio frequency range far greater than what we can hear with the h...
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Making solar panels last longer
Researchers use machine learning to better gauge failure of solar panels; could lead to longer-lasting panels, lower costs Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have taken a crucial step toward increasing the lifespan of photovoltaic solar panels and potentially lowering solar-energy costs ...
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U.S. News and World Report announces graduate, professional program rankings
Case Western Reserve University’s graduate and professional programs experienced mixed results in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s graduate school rankings, with two schools achieving impressive gains, three holding steady, and one suffering a small dip. With improvement in its employment sta...
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Engineering’s Michael Hore recognized for commitment to undergraduate teaching
Michael Hore, assistant professor of macromolecular science and engineering, won the Case School of Engineering’s Srinivasa P. Gutti Memorial Teaching Award. The award is presented annually by the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi to honor members of the engineering faculty that show an exempla...
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Engineering’s Mario Garcia-Sanz appointed program director of ARPA-E
Mario Garcia-Sanz, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and the inaugural Milton and Tamar Maltz Endowed Chair in Energy Innovation, has been selected for a two-year stint as a program director at the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Du...
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Case Western Reserve, Cleveland State and Mercyhurst to collaborate on new cybersecurity focus
Three academic institutions—Case Western Reserve, Mercyhurst and Cleveland State universities—each maintain nationally recognized programs in the science of cybersecurity. Today, they announced plans to share their individual expertise and collectively form the North Coast Cyber Research and Trainin...
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Do we really know how Earth's inner core formed?
Case Western Reserve planetary scientists challenge long-held understanding of how solid center could have been created
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WISER Light Bulb Drop
Students are invited to participate in the WISER Light Bulb Drop as part of the Engineers Week festivities. The event will be held Thursday, Feb. 22, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the lower level of Kelvin Smith Library. Students can build a team of two to three people and sign up online to part...