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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…

Do you know a faculty member who has been outstanding in teaching or mentoring graduate students? This is your chance to help them get recognized with the prestigious John S. Diekhoff Award. There are four Diekhoff Awards: two awards for Distinguished Graduate Teaching and two awards for…

Provost W. A. “Bud” Baeslack III invites the university community to submit nominations for the 2018 Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize. This prize recognizes an active or emeritus faculty member whose exceptional achievements in teaching, research and scholarly service have benefited the…

In early January, full-time faculty, full-time lecturers and research faculty who were hired before Nov. 1, 2017, received an invitation from Provost W.A. "Bud" Baeslack to participate in the Faculty Climate Survey. The survey is designed to help the university learn more about the experiences of…

During the week of Jan. 8, full-time faculty, full-time lecturers and research faculty who were hired before Nov. 1, 2017, will receive an email from Provost W.A. "Bud" Baeslack with an invitation to participate in the Faculty Climate Survey. The survey is a continuation of the 2010 and 2014…

Case Western Reserve “sea slug” robotics expert leads effort to organize emerging fields  You might not think a research area as detailed, technically advanced and futuristic as building robots with living materials would need help getting organized, but that’s precisely what Vickie Webster-Wood…

Kelvin Smith Library will partner with the Lillian & Milford Harris Library, the Judge Ben C. Green Law Library and the Cleveland Health Sciences Library on a series of workshops to support faculty as they prepare for the promotion and tenure process. The workshop series, “Increasing your…

As of Aug. 1, Sarah de Swart is director of the Faculty Development Center. She joined University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) in 2001, first as an assistant director, before becoming associate director and, most recently, interim director. “We are especially pleased…

Shirley Moore can’t recall a time in her life, even as a girl on the family’s Ashtabula, Ohio, dairy farm, when she didn’t want to be a nurse, to care for others. But Moore, the Edward J. and Louise Mellen Professor of Nursing and associate dean for research at the Frances Payne Bolton School of…

Join the CWRU Technology Validation & Start-Up Fund and National Institutes of Health Centers for Accelerated Innovations for an information session on two upcoming translational funding opportunities. The session will be held Monday, July 31, at noon in DeGrace Hall, Room 312. It will…