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Tackling a pandemic: Meet the MD/PhD student who helped create the first COVID-19 vaccines
When Olubukola Abiona began a four-year postbaccalaureate fellowship at the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center in 2017, she knew she’d gain valuable experience—but had no idea just how impactful her efforts would be.  Not long later, those impacts became clear: Her team’s…
Meet the 2023 Veale Faculty Fellows in the Case School of Engineering
Designed specifically for faculty interested in exploring entrepreneurship as a path to market for their research, the Veale Faculty Fellowship program welcomes eight fellows this year, four from the Case School of Engineering:  Changyong "Chase" Cao, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace…
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Tackling a pandemic: Meet the MD/PhD student who helped create the first COVID-19 vaccines
When Olubukola Abiona began a four-year postbaccalaureate fellowship at the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center in 2017, she knew she’d gain valuable experience—but had no idea just how impactful her efforts would be.  Not long later, those impacts became clear: Her team’s…
September 2023 Inside the Action Newsletter
In this month's issue: Homecoming News Upcoming Events CEU Opportunities Student Spotlights Alumni News In Memoriam Employment and Career Opportunities Read the September 2023 Inside the Action Newsletter.
CWRU internship part of regional effort to build minority participation, scientific contributions
ӰƵ is partnering with its affiliated teaching hospitals, the Cleveland Clinic, MetroHealth and University Hospitals, on a five-year summer internship program to encourage more minority and underrepresented students to enter medical research. The program, funded by a…
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Engineering students provide power for people of Malawi
A group of Case School of Engineering students are bringing power to isolated parts of Malawi in Africa. In Kasakula, a village just outside of the Kasungu National Park where ӰƵ students brought power to park ranger living quarters in 2021, a Humanitarian Design Corps…
Pam Bolton named CWRU Student Innovator of the Year
Innovator of the Year: Student Pam Bolton Second-year PhD student, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing For more than three decades, Pam Bolton has worked as a registered nurse and board-certified acute care nurse practitioner in a variety of hospital settings, providing care to acutely or…
Sara L. Douglas receives $3.3 million NIH grant to study end-of-life care
Sara L. Douglas, PhD, RN, the Gertrude Perkins Oliva Professor in Oncology Nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, has been awarded a $3.3 million Research Project Grant (RO1) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) for her research aimed at…
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CWRU community remembers staff member Bill Marx
Whether strategizing how to tackle building renovations, helping facilitate biomedical research or performing music at venues across Cleveland, William “Bill” Marx was often known as a jack of all trades. Now, members of the ӰƵ are remembering this multifaceted staff…
American Society of Clinical Oncology selects third-year medical student to present on financial toxicity at upcoming symposium 
Third-year ӰƵ medical student Victoria Wu knows a thing or two about economics. She earned her undergraduate degree from University of Pennsylvania in the subject, and is using that expertise to study financial toxicity and how it affects lymphoma patients. It’s…