Tech Transfer

When Wayne Hawthorne and his wife, Maria, went hiking in Grand Canyon National Park 20 years ago, they faced an unfortunate turn of events: Maria broke her ankle. Following an emergency medevac to the park’s South Rim, she found help from a volunteer Preventative Search and Rescue (PSAR) ranger who ...

New Brookings Institution report highlights advantages of urban universities in research-related economic activity Case Western Reserve ranked 13th in the country—ahead of Harvard, Georgia Tech, and the University of Chicago—in a new study of research universities’ effectiveness in translating resea...

Program renewed for second year; now accepting students and software ideas CWRUcible, a novel software development program based in the university’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO), proved so successful in its first year that it’s just been renewed for a second. The program teams Weatherhead Schoo...

What if eliminating physical pain was a matter of flipping a switch to block it? No drug needed. When it’s time to stop the block, just turn it off. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University hope to eventually treat chronic or acute pain by using energy-based neuromodulation technology. The un...