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Engineering’s Gary Wnek’s curiosity sends him in wide-ranging directions
Gary Wnek is always thinking about developing materials to address problems—from enhancing fire-retardant coatings to protecting older people from the devastating consequences of falls. His broad interests stem from a desire to tackle research areas early. “I’m not a bandwagon person,” said…
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September 29, 2015
During the next three years, researchers at ӰƵ will team with NASA Glenn Research Center and firefighters nationally, from Cleveland to Oregon, to design and test sensors aimed at protecting firefighters from respiratory damage and illnesses.
The Department of Homeland ...
September 24, 2015
ӰƵ boasts some of the world’s brightest young minds. Their influence is not limited to the lab, office or classroom; often, it’s far-reaching—impacting the surrounding community and sometimes even society as a whole.
Four such catalysts—current faculty, staff and studen...
September 18, 2015
Symone Alexander more or less stumbled into her career path. It took literally getting lost in the engineering building as an undergraduate at Howard University in order for her to find her true passion.
“I knew nothing about engineering until undergrad,” Alexander, who started college as a chemist...
September 16, 2015
The Case School of Engineering recently appointed Robert X. Gao as the Cady Staley Professor of Engineering and the chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Gao joins ӰƵ from the University of Connecticut. There, he served as the Pratt and Whitne...
September 10, 2015
Coupling with perovskite solar cell holds potential for cleaner cars and more
Liming Dai led the team's research.
Consumers aren’t embracing electric cars and trucks, partly due to the dearth of charging stations required to keep them moving. Even the conservation-minded are hesitant to go electri...
September 02, 2015
When Lauren Anderson found out she won a Department of Defense Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship, she thought she was dreaming.
The ӰƵ junior had just woken up from a nap and checked her email when she learned she would have her fi...
August 28, 2015
Two ӰƵ students won $10,000 scholarships from the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) for their graduate studies. Janet Gbur and Mohsen Seifi, both PhD candidates in materials science and engineering, were two of three students selected for th...
August 28, 2015
Anant Madabhushi, director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and professor of biomedical engineering, was awarded U.S. patent 9,111,179, titled “High-throughput Biomarker Segmentation Utilizing Hierarchical Normalized Cuts.”
The invention relates to a novel algori...
August 26, 2015
Donald Feke (CIT ’76, GRS ’77, chemical engineering) is a triple threat at ӰƵ: an award-winning educator, a patent-producing researcher and an accomplished administrator.
His favorite aspect of his multifaceted role—and the reason he came back to ӰƵ—is...
August 26, 2015
Ica Manas-Zloczower has spent her entire professional teaching career at ӰƵ. In her 30 years on campus, she’s become known as a prolific researcher in macromolecular science and engineering, a committed colleague and an influential educator.
For her many contributions—b...