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Recent alumni sell online restaurant ordering business to LivingSocial
Three 2007 ӰƵ graduates made national business news recently when their restaurant online ordering company, Onosys, was bought by daily deal-maker LivingSocial. The acquisition will enable the Cleveland company of 20 to accelerate growth, adding 15 to 20 new employees b...
Director of facilities services Gene Matthews wins Jackson Mentoring Award
Evidence of Gene Matthews’ bright ideas to make the ӰƵ campus more energy efficient and sustainable are everywhere you look—from LED lights in Nord Hall to the solar compacting garbage bins that sprinkle the walkways. In addition to all of his other campus responsibilities, Case W...
CWRU sets enrollment records, welcomes most diverse, academically accomplished class in history
President Barbara R. Snyder announced today that the first-year students who arrive this fall will be part of ӰƵ’s largest, most diverse and most academically accomplished class in history. Based on deposits as of May 1, the university expects to enroll at least 1,350 students—abo...
Libyan students, ambassador say thanks to CWRU
Ali Suleiman Aujali, Libya’s ambassador to the United States, spoke at a dinner planned by ӰƵ students from Libya. When two dozen graduate students from Libya found themselves in a frightening state of limbo during last year’s civil war in their country, the ӰƵ U...
Mathematics professor Erkki Somersalo wins Diekhoff Teaching Award
For some, university-level mathematics can seem daunting. But for professor Erkki Somersalo, math is—and should be—a process that simplifies rather than complicates. Using a straightforward, stripped-down approach, Somersalo teaches students the subject in a way that makes even the most obscure conc...
Engineering’s Mario Garcia-Sanz earns Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching
Last week, a group of engineering students gathered in a small room off of Professor Mario Garcia-Sanz’s office to watch one helicopter after another fly—and, they hoped, not crash and burn. Each student took part in the extra-credit competition for Garcia-Sanz’s control engineering course: They de...
Physics and astronomy’s Glenn Starkman earns Diekhoff mentoring award
Glenn Starkman says his style of mentoring graduate students is similar to the way he taught his children to ride their bikes: He stays hands-off until the moment they need him—and the second that happens, he’s there, waiting to catch them. That hands-off-until-necessary approach earned Starkman, a...
Anthropology's Eileen Anderson-Fye one of four Diekhoff Award winners
Eileen Anderson-Fye hopped up from a discussion with her graduate students to find an answer to their question in her email. When she opened her inbox, she read the subject line of a new message aloud: “Diekhoff Award–Congratulations.” Immediately, the students started cheering, until she opened the...
Blast off: Students send capsule 100,000 feet above Earth
Images from the capsule's camera; edited video will be on display at Springfest. Members of a pair of new clubs at ӰƵ sent a mock-up of an Apollo capsule nearly 100,000 feet above Earth twice in the last two weeks. The Case Lunabotics and Case Rocket teams used wea...
CWRU among seven universities piloting new research-focused technology
ӰƵ has joined a nationwide effort to pilot new technology designed to advance scientific research and reduce higher education costs. As part of the initiative, researchers will be able to send data 10 times faster than previously—at the rate of 100 Gigabits per second—wh...