think[box]

Safer sports helmets inspired by hedgehogs. Wearable tech that detects dehydration. Healthy meal boxes delivered to food deserts. What these innovative products and services have in common are entrepreneurs from Case Western Reserve University—and each are the basis for a company among the six fina...

Want to develop your maker skills? The Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[box] will host a series of classes that will teach you how to be an innovator. Classes in the “How-to-think[box]” series will include the following: “Campus Resources for Entrepreneurs and Innovators;” “Putting A...

Largest university presence at consumer electronics show Case Western Reserve University will again show off some of its best innovations at CES 2018 Jan. 9-12 in Las Vegas, including self-powered “smart building” sensors and low-cost, hand-held blood analysis devices and more among its 10 exhibits....

Students in a SAGES first seminar course designed and built prototypes of off-grid phototherapy devices to treat jaundice for babies in rural Nigeria By Ellen Walter In their first semester at Case Western Reserve University, 18 students created devices that could help solve a health care problem i...

This year, students, friends and family members are invited to tour campus and the surrounding city. If you wonder about the history of modern medicine, you should wander through the open house of CWRU’s one-of-a-kind museum, the Dittrick Museum of Medical History. History not your thing? Get a gl...

Esteban Salvemini, manager of the engineering and design studio at New York University Abu Dhabi, donned a welding helmet, flipped down the mask, grabbed a torch and began wielding it on a slab of aluminum. Sort of. A representative with Cleveland-based Lincoln Electric demonstrates a virtual rea...

Have you ever wanted to learn about Sears think[box] and incorporate that knowledge into your teaching? If so, you can apply for a new workshop series. This initiative is offered by the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) and Sears think[box]. The five-week series of ...

Scenery and props quite literally set the stage for most theater performances, which, as the scenic designer for some Case Western Reserve University Players' Theatre Group (PTG) productions, senior Alice Li knows well. The mechanical engineering major has helped transform the Eldred Black Box Thea...

New program honors memory of legendary startup investor David Morgenthaler Starting this fall semester, JumpStart and the Morgenthaler family, with Case Western Reserve University trustee and venture capitalist Bob Pavey, will honor the memory of legendary startup investor David Morgenthaler by intr...

Faculty members can tour the Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[box] at the next University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) event. The tour will be held Friday, June 30, at 1:30 p.m. The makerspace, open to Case Western Reserve University community members and the p...