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Materials science and engineering's Jennifer Carter receives young leader award
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) named Jennifer Carter, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, as one of 28 recipients of the 2014 TMS Young Leader Professional Development Award. The winners were formally recognized at the 143rd TMS Annual Meeting and Exhibition Feb...
CWRU, CIA students put technology and art on display at upcoming festival
In 2010, two Case Western Reserve University graduate students launched the Brite Winter festival to celebrate the season. Four years later, the annual free arts and musical event has grown significantly—attracting some 20,000 people last year. And although its founders have since graduated, other ...
Alumnus commits $2.6 million to help launch data science program
Case Western Reserve University’s efforts to launch an undergraduate major in data science this fall just got a significant boost from a business leader who knows a great deal about the subject. Bob Herbold, the chief operating officer (COO) of Microsoft during its period of greatest growth, has com...
CWRU and Lincoln Electric lead 3-D manufacturing project
Case Western Reserve University, in alliance with the Lincoln Electric Co. and a group of business partners, has been selected to lead a project to convert the laser hot-wire welding process developed by Lincoln Electric into a high-output, three-dimensional additive manufacturing process. The $700...
CWRU engineers find epileptic activity spreads in a new way
Researchers in the biomedical engineering department at Case Western Reserve University have found that epileptic activity can spread through a part of the brain in a new way, suggesting a possible novel target for seizure-blocking medicines. Evidence from a series of experiments and computer model...
Longtime engineering professor Roger Marchant passes away
Services will be held on campus this Saturday in memory of longtime biomedical engineering professor Roger Marchant, who died last week at the age of 62. Marchant, who earned his master’s and doctoral degrees at Case Western Reserve, spent his entire professional career at the university. In additi...
Researchers learning to predict sickle cell crisis, monitor treatment with award from Doris Duke Foundation
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University received a $486,000 Doris Duke Foundation award to discover how to predict when sickle cell disease patients will suffer an acute crisis and monitor the effectiveness of treatments. For decades, scientists have known that during acute crises, patients’...
Students, professor take part in first U.S. college course in Myanmar
The streets of Yangon, Myanmar, are jam-packed with cars, and a new Mercedes-Benz dealership has opened. People carry the latest smartphones and tablets. Electricity is sporadic and unreliable, though. And the city has open sewers. “It just feels like the place burst open to outside technology all...
Case School of Engineering researchers report nanoscale energy-efficient switching devices
By relentlessly miniaturizing a pre-World War II computer technology and combining this with a new and durable material, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have built nanoscale switches and logic gates that operate more energy-efficiently than those now used by the billions in computers,...
Sign up today to volunteer at the youth Engineering Challenges Carnival
Volunteers still are needed to help with the Engineering Challenges Carnival for local youth on Saturday, Feb. 15, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., hosted by the Leonard Gelfand STEM Center, the Division of Education and Student Programs and the Great Lakes Science Center. This is an opportunity for student...