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Dr. Bridget Hegarty was recently awarded an NSF CAREER award for her project entitled: "CAREER: Designing safe and effective phage cocktails for precise microbial control in water systems". Growth of unwanted bacteria in US water systems is estimated to cost over $7 billion each year. Her project wi...

Professor Shuo Li was inducted into 2025 Class of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows at a ceremony in Arlington, Virginia, earlier this week. Election to this group is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biologica...

The Case Western Reserve University faculty adopted the Faculty Open Access (OA) Policy last March, enabling wider dissemination of their scholarly articles. This policy allows faculty members to retain rights to openly share and reuse their work, including posting it in CWRU’s open access repositor...

Sylvie Crowell, a master's student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was selected as one of the two 2024 Henry DeWitt Smith Scholars by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). She was recognized at TMS 2024 - the 153rd Annual Meeting & E...

Congratulations to Associate Professor Laura Bruckman who has been appointed to the Climo Professorship for the Case School of Engineering. The Climo Professorship was established in 2004 by the university's board of trustees....

A team of researchers from the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education conducted a study examining how drug overdose deaths correlate with urban census tracts. The team consisted of research associates Ryan McMaster, Luma Masarweh‑Zawahri and Vaishali S. Deo, Senior Research Ass...

These three core values drive the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Read on to learn how faculty, students and alumni from the Mandel School are demonstrating these ideals through their impactful work. Equity Shaping the lives of the chronically homeless ...

How the Center on Trauma and Adversity is pioneering new approaches that nurture healing and resilience—in classrooms, on campus and in communities across the country By Daniel Robison Ruth Bieber-Stanley understands the power of a steady, supportive presence. Growing up in New Mexico, and durin...

The CWRU team led by Professor Xiong (Bill) Yu received the first prize in the 2024 Intelligent Water System challenge competition organized by Water Research Foundation and Water Environmental Federation. The team presented an intelligent water solution titled ‘AI-Platform for Accurate Water Suppl...

Associate Professor Emerita Kathleen Farkas and Lecturer Richard Romaniuk participated in an international conference via Zoom on Feb. 20, titled "Ukraine: Towards the West. Culture, Values and Language." Adam Mickiewicz University sponsored the peer-reviewed conference which drew scholars from Ukr...