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Research Impact

Case Western Reserve University’s researchers set purpose into motion, delivering new technology, groundbreaking cures, and answers to our most pressing questions. Here, diverse interests connect in ways that drive discoveries no single field could uncover alone—discoveries that launch startup companies, fuel economic growth and inspire real-world change.

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Four Case School of Engineering faculty earn prestigious NSF CAREER Awards

Four Case School of Engineering faculty members are tackling some of today's most complex scientific and technological challenges—from making artificial intelligence (AI) more trustworthy and manufacturing more efficient, to creating robots that can provide emotional support and a more humanlike…

Medical Breakthroughs

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Health + Wellness

A new chapter for CWRU’s Prion Center

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Awards

Engineering’s Umut Gurkan receives two grant awards, totaling over $1.2M, to advance sickle cell research

Alicia Mathew presents her research, titled "Biofilm around a single rising oil droplet in natural seawater samples under various conditions using ecology-on-a-chip microfluidics
People

Meet an undergraduate student who is already making her mark in research

Energy, Environment and Sustainability

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Science + Tech

Case Western Reserve University to lead U.S. Department of Energy project to enhance domestic production of rare-earth elements critical to energy, defense industries

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Science + Tech

Case Western Reserve University partnering with Argonne National Laboratory on Genesis Mission grant to harness power of AI to unlock recycling of nuclear fuel

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Science + Tech

Could a crane fly’s nervous system inspire new technology to help humans?

Tech, Business and Policy

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Science + Tech

Watching rubber heal: CWRU researcher wins Beckman Young Investigator Award to image damage and repair in self-healing polymers

Researchers prepare a hypervelocity water-entry experiment, with the HOPLITE two-stage light gas gun at left, a water tank at right, and high-speed imaging cameras aimed through the tank’s clear glass wall to capture the projectile’s interaction with water.
Science + Tech

CWRU researchers’ unprecedented discovery of what happens when objects enter water at extremely fast speeds

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Business, Law + Politics

From the South Pole to startup life: How a CWRU alum is using AI to improve wireless networks

Arts, Life and Wellness

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Health + Wellness

Meet Anita Aminoshariae, a leader at the forefront of understanding what AI means for dental medicine

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Health + Wellness

A different route to healthcare entrepreneurship

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Research Impact

Case Western Reserve University leads NIH academic–industrial partnership to develop rapid, chairside oral cancer test