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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[box] will commemorate the fourth annual Week of Making (June 16–22) with an afternoon full of activities Saturday, June 17, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The schedule will be as follows: 1:30 p.m.: Welcome to Sears Think[box] and the Week of Making …

WISER's third Peer Mentor Challenge will focus on building Rube Goldberg machines. The challenge is designed for mentor pairs to work together, but any WISER member interested in the Mentor Program is encouraged to attend. Join in the challenge on March 23 at 7 p.m. on the second floor of Sears…

The Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[box] is rolling out “How to think[box]”—free instructional classes through which students, faculty, staff and community members can develop supplemental skills and learn to use equipment. The program features seven different workshops: Intro to…