Case School of Engineering

For years, Daniel Lacks has taken Case Western Reserve University engineering students to African villages, showing them a different way of life and, more recently, aiding those they visited by installing solar panels in their villages. What he and his students didn’t realize, though, was the inher...

Join the Case School of Engineering in celebrating its endowed professorships Wednesday, March 29, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at the Temple–Tifereth Israel. The following will be honored: Alexis Abramson, the Milton & Tamar Maltz Professor of Ener...

The CWRU Science and Human Rights Coalition will host a talk with Dan Lacks, the C. Benson Branch Professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His talk, titled "The Challenges Facing Scientists in Myanmar and Libya,” will be held Friday, Ma...

Six-week institute to focus on energy, environmental and public health policy This summer, 25 rising young leaders from sub-Saharan African countries will spend six weeks at Case Western Reserve University in a federal program aimed at empowering them through workshops, leadership training and netwo...

Device designed to personalize treatments and help patients better manage their disease Researchers at Case Western Reserve University will use a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and test a small, portable blood-adhesion monitor for sickle cell disease patients. Th...

Jessica Powell, a junior studying biomedical engineering, biomaterials and tissue engineering, recently gave a presentation at the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 17th annual State of the Art Winter Symposium. Her presentation, titled “Synthetic Liver Function is Preserved in Transgenic Por...

By Kaitlin Murphy A mural depicting female engineers on bright, blocky backgrounds now stretches across a wall off the main entrance of the A.W. Smith Building. What was once a blank space, cluttered with garbage cans and recycling bins, now has been creatively and colorfully transformed by Clevel...

(Update: Parihug placed second and Reflexion Interactive Technologies placed third in the competition.) The top college startups in America are set to meet in a “Student Startup Madness” championship next month at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in Austin, Texas. And two of the “Entrepreneur...

William Huddleston William Huddleston and Kevin Pachuta, graduate students in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, received second and third place awards, respectively, at the eighth Electronic Materials and Applications Meeting. The meeting, organized by the American Ceramic Socie...

Clare Rimnac, the Wilbert J. Austin Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received the ORS/OREF Distinguished Investigator Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society and Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation. The award honors individuals with l...