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Engineering’s Janet Gbur earns Technical Educator Award from ASM International Cleveland Chapter
Janet L. Gbur, PhD, a research assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and a research biomedical engineer at the Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, has been awarded the…
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Engineering student Hannah Chen selected for ASM International Cleveland Chapter’s Donaldson-Kiefer Scholarship
Hannah Chen, a second-year student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, was recently awarded a Donaldson-Kiefer Scholarship from the ASM International Cleveland Chapter.Named after two notable alumni of this ASM chapter, this scholarship…
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Materials science and engineering student Caroline Kromalic receives Best Poster award at the MDS-Rely Spring Meeting
Caroline Kromalic, a graduate student in materials science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University, recently received the Best Poster award at the Materials Data Science (MDS)-Rely Spring Meeting in Pittsburgh. In her project, Kromalic studied the reliability of aerosol jet printed…
Rishabh Kundu
Engineering's Rishabh Kundu earns Student Poster Pitch Award at Ceramics Expo 2026
Earlier this month, Rishabh Kundu—a second-year PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, a ThinkEnergy Fellow and a Swanger Fellow—received second prize in the Student Poster Pitch Competition at the Ceramics Expo and Thermal Management Expo North America 2026. Kundu’s…
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Meet 2026 engineering graduate Elizabeth Berry
This weekend, graduating students at Case Western Reserve University will celebrate the accomplishments and experiences that defined their time on campus. For Elizabeth Berry, those experiences were rooted in finding balance—between academics and athletics, leadership and service, and classroom…
Jacob Akana (pictured left) receives the J. Earl Frazier Memorial Scholarship.
Undergraduate Jacob Akana receives J. Earl Frazier Memorial Scholarship
In March, the Pittsburgh section of the American Ceramic Society awarded the J. Earl Frazier Memorial Scholarship to Jacob Akana, a second-year student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, in recognition of his research. This scholarship is…
 Blessing Masanga
Undergraduate student Blessing Masanga places second at 2026 Midwest Climate Collaborative Summit
Blessing Masanga, a first-year Case Western Reserve University computer science student, was honored with a second-place poster competition award at the 2026 Midwest Climate Collaborative Summit. The award recognizes her poster presentation titled “Departmental footprint: Redefining sustainability…
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Engineering's Rishabh Kundu honored with research award at PINO 2026
Rishabh Kundu, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Material Science and Engineering, has been honored with a research award in the Application of Machine Learning and Modeling category at the Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio (PINO) 2026 conference. The award, sponsored by…
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Materials Science students lead sustainability efforts at CWRU’s “Just a S.E.C.” event
Rishabh Kundu, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been appointed a Sustainability Champion by the Office of Energy & Sustainability at Case Western Reserve University. The recognition, awarded through a nomination-based process, honors…
Attendees view a presentation at the Bi-Annual Winter Meeting for the NNSA’s MDS^3
Case School of Engineering's Department of Materials Science and Engineering hosts seventh Bi-Annual Winter Meeting
This January, over 20 visitors from several Department of Energy - National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE-NNSA) labs (Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia) and production facilities (KCNSC and Y12), and from the AWE in the UK visited Case Western Reserve for the seventh Bi-Annual Winter Meeting…