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Future is now for local inventor
Oberlin man patents ion-propelled aircraft with help from the Ohio Patent Pro Bono Program and CWRU's IP Venture Clinic Many experts agree the future of flight will rely on zero-emission and/or renewable energy technology. That is, aircraft will be propelled by ions—electrically charged molecules—th...
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Law school dean, co-founder of human-rights group calls for action in Rohingya genocide
The Myanmar military’s mass murders of the Rohingya minority should be labeled genocide, according to the human-rights law firm co-founded by Case Western Reserve’s School of Law Co-Dean Michael Scharf. The military in Myanmar, a nation in Southeast Asia where Buddhism is the main religion, has den...
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The 2018 Weatherhead 100 recognizes the fastest-growing companies in Northeast Ohio
The Case Western Reserve University-based awards include companies in a variety of sectors, including consulting, financial services, medical devices, real estate and digital media Roger Zona, founder of TPI Efficiency Cleveland-based budget-consulting firm TPI Efficiency—with sales growth topping...
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Photographer, video artist and advocate LaToya Ruby Frazier to headline Martin Luther King Jr. events at Case Western Reserve
Images are often more powerful, and certainly more permanent, than words. Visual artist and advocate LaToya Ruby Frazier combines the two—photography/videography and her insight—to capture and explore social inequality and historical change in the postindustrial age. “Each day, we’re bombarded by ...
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Study: Hospitals adopting electronic health records at highest standard discharged patients sooner
Electronic health records (EHRs) produce savings for hospitals by reducing the average length of patient stays—but only in facilities meeting the highest federal standards for implementing the technology, according to new research from Case Western Reserve University. The findings are significant f...
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Is an ‘Internet of Ears’ the next big thing for smart homes?
Next generation of connected buildings envisions using changes in vibrations, sound and electrical field to improve energy consumption, monitor occupants’ movements Houses have been getting progressively “smarter” for decades, but the next generation of smart homes may offer what two Case Western Re...
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Kelvin Smith Library to preserve the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland's archives
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) has gifted 40 years of archives to Case Western Reserve University's Kelvin Smith Library. Thousands of items are included in the collection that will be made public for research and historical documentation of MOCA’s leadership in the arts and the ins...
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Making solar panels that last half a century
Case Western Reserve University research team awarded $1.35 million to study solar photovoltaic module construction, part of broader U.S. effort to make solar energy efficient, affordable A team of solar energy researchers from Case Western Reserve University has been awarded $1.35 million from the ...
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A conversation with The Book of Revelation: A Biography author and religious studies professor Timothy Beal
While growing up in Alaska, Timothy Beal was steeped in a conservative evangelical community with a fondness and fear of Revelation, the last book of the Bible offering a potent brew of hellfire and redemption through a thick tangle of verses violent, bewildering and poetic. By adulthood, Beal—chai...
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Caring creatively for an aging population
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing works with The John A. Hartford Foundation, Institute for Healthcare Improvement to enhance Age-Friendly care at MinuteClinic locations The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University is working with MinuteClinic, the retail medica...