Materials Science and Engineering

Emilio Blythe, a fourth-year undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University, received scholarships from the Stoddard Jones 38 Endowed Scholarship Fund and the Cornelius G. Scheid Scholarship Fund in spring 2026.Blythe began conducting research under Janet L. Gbur, PhD, during his first…

Two members of the Case Western Reserve University community received honors from the Microscopy Society of Northeastern Ohio's 68th annual May meeting, which was hosted jointly with the Society of Applied Spectroscopy, SAS-Cleveland Regional Section; the American Chemical Society, AKRON ACS; and…

Jenna Jaklich is nearly three years away from completing her PhD program in materials science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, but she already has a post-grad job lined up. Thanks to a Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship, she will take a role…

Janet L. Gbur, PhD, a research assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and a research biomedical engineer at the Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, has been awarded the…

Hannah Chen, a second-year student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, was recently awarded a Donaldson-Kiefer Scholarship from the ASM International Cleveland Chapter.Named after two notable alumni of this ASM chapter, this scholarship…

Caroline Kromalic, a graduate student in materials science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, recently received the Best Poster award at the Materials Data Science (MDS)-Rely Spring Meeting in Pittsburgh. In her project, Kromalic studied the reliability of aerosol jet printed…

Earlier this month, Rishabh Kundu—a second-year PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, a ThinkEnergy Fellow and a Swanger Fellow—received second prize in the Student Poster Pitch Competition at the Ceramics Expo and Thermal Management Expo North America 2026. Kundu’s…

This weekend, graduating students at Case Western Reserve University will celebrate the accomplishments and experiences that defined their time on campus. For Elizabeth Berry, those experiences were rooted in finding balance—between academics and athletics, leadership and service, and classroom…

Blessing Masanga, a first-year Case Western Reserve University computer science student, was honored with a second-place poster competition award at the 2026 Midwest Climate Collaborative Summit. The award recognizes her poster presentation titled “Departmental footprint: Redefining sustainability…

In March, the Pittsburgh section of the American Ceramic Society awarded the J. Earl Frazier Memorial Scholarship to Jacob Akana, a second-year student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, in recognition of his research. This scholarship is…