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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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March 17, 2017
Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of biomedical engineering, gave a keynote lecture on precision medicine at the Digital Pathology conference at the SPIE Medical Imaging Symposium in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 13.
He delivered his lecture, titled "Prognostications and predictions: implic...

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March 14, 2017
CWRU places two of top three finishers in national student startup competition at South by Southwest
Having two of the nation’s top eight qualifiers for the final round of South by Southwest’s (SXSW) “Student Startup Madness” competition was already impressive.
To have both student entrepreneurial teams from ӰƵ finish among the top three in the country this week was be...

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March 14, 2017
Thanks to gains in research and admissions, ӰƵ’s School of Medicine maintained its top-25 position in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s graduate school rankings. For several other programs, improvements in individual categories weren’t enough to avoid slight dips in their over...

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March 14, 2017
The ӰƵ community is invited to attend a lecture about robotics and smart manufacturing by U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) research scientist Jeremy Marvel.
This event, hosted by the Case School of Engineering, will be held Monday, March 20, fr...

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March 03, 2017
Rigoberto Advincula, professor of macromolecular science and engineering, recently wrote an article and gave a presentation on 3-D printing nanocomposites.
His article, titled “3D Printing Biocompatible Polyurethane/Poly(lactic acid)/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites: Anisotropic Properties” was publis...

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March 03, 2017
The American Physical Society’s Division of Polymer Physics selected Michael Hore, assistant professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, to give a guest lecture at the U.K. Polymer Physics Group meeting in September at Swansea University.
The group meets every other year ...

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March 02, 2017
For years, Daniel Lacks has taken ӰƵ engineering students to African villages, showing them a different way of life and, more recently, aiding those they visited by installing solar panels in their villages.
What he and his students didn’t realize, though, was the inher...

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March 01, 2017
Join the Case School of Engineering in celebrating its endowed professorships Wednesday, March 29, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at the Temple–Tifereth Israel.
The following will be honored:
Alexis Abramson, the Milton & Tamar Maltz Professor of Ener...

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February 22, 2017
The CWRU Science and Human Rights Coalition will host a talk with Dan Lacks, the C. Benson Branch Professor of Chemical Engineering and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
His talk, titled "The Challenges Facing Scientists in Myanmar and Libya,” will be held Friday, Ma...

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February 20, 2017
Six-week institute to focus on energy, environmental and public health policy
This summer, 25 rising young leaders from sub-Saharan African countries will spend six weeks at ӰƵ in a federal program aimed at empowering them through workshops, leadership training and netwo...