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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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Health + Wellness

Transformative eye research expands donor pool for corneal transplant patients

Study shows corneas from donors with diabetes are just as effective for surgery

Medical Breakthroughs

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Research Impact

With AI, we can … Strive to predict illnesses before they start—and save lives

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Health + Wellness

Researchers uncover how brain’s social skills impact recovery from early schizophrenia

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People

Meet a CWRU undergraduate leveraging the university's collaborative research environment to contribute to a study on skin fibrosis

Energy, Environment and Sustainability

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Science + Tech

Climate change may create ‘ecological trap’ for species who can’t adapt

Johanna Nagy
Research Impact

Meet a researcher trying to see the birth of the universe

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Science + Tech

Stellar minds: CWRU women astronomers map universe’s mysteries

Tech, Business and Policy

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Research Impact

With AI, we can … Improve the ways products are made and factories operate

Lydia Kisley
Science + Tech

Meet a researcher developing new approaches to examining materials

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Science + Tech

New clinical trial to test sensory prostheses for people with upper-limb loss

Arts, Life and Wellness

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Grace J. Kim
Research Impact

Disconnected in a connected world

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Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences

Rethinking the Middle Ages: CWRU art historian reframes abstraction

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Health + Wellness

What matters most to senior citizens? Not what you might think