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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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August 21, 2015
Mustafa Unal, a doctoral candidate in the lab of Ozan Akkus, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been selected as a Baxter Young Investigator for his research, titled “Assessment of Bone Quality by Novel Spectroscopic Biomarkers,” in the Instrumental and Analytical Sciences catego...
August 21, 2015
Janet Gbur, doctoral candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been awarded the Ruby Leigh Orgain Founders Grant in the amount of $9,000 from the Zeta Tau Alpha Foundation.
Nine grants are awarded annually to members pursuing post-baccalaureate education with each grant ...
August 07, 2015
ӰƵ will host Innovation Summit 2015: Models of Innovation to explore the opportunities and challenges of various models of innovation at the global scale.
On Oct. 26 to 28, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, academic experts and policy makers nationally will examine how ...
August 07, 2015
As a high school student in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, in the 1990s, Anant Madabhushi competed against thousands of students for a spot in the country’s premier medical and engineering schools.
Then, his uncle, an engineer with General Electric in the United States, sent him a book on biomedical e...
August 06, 2015
ӰƵ’s supporters set 22 all-time records for fundraising in fiscal year 2015, including its eighth all-time record for attainment in the past nine years. That total of $166.9 million bested 2014’s record by $15.3 million—a figure nearly three times as high as the previous...
August 05, 2015
The recent acquisition of CardioInsight Technologies Inc., a privately held, Cleveland-based medical device company, will advance electrocardiographic mapping technology initially researched and developed in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at ӰƵ’s Case School of...
July 23, 2015
In collaboration with Tohoku University in Japan, the ӰƵ School of Medicine and Case School of Engineering will hold the Data Science in Life Science and Engineering Collaboration and Symposium July 29-30.
The symposium brings together researchers from Case Western Rese...
July 09, 2015
ӰƵ will host a summit to bring together thought leaders from across industry sectors and geographies for three days of exploration, collaboration and scholarship focused on the opportunities and challenges of global innovation.
The ӰƵ Innovation Summit...
June 05, 2015
ӰƵ’s undergraduate Robotics Club competed at NASA's annual robotic mining competition at NASA Kennedy Space Center in May for the third year in a row, finishing with their team best at the competition. The competition consists of mining simulated Mars dust.
Calin Solomo...
May 22, 2015
As think[ box ] manager, Ian Charnas (CWR '05) is as much a fixture at ӰƵ’s innovation center as one of the 3-D printers or laser cutters anyone is free to create and tinker with there.
He’s also deeply involved in the center’s upcoming move and expansion from snug base...