Tech Transfer
April 24, 2025
When Wayne Hawthorne and his wife, Maria, went hiking in Grand Canyon National Park 20 years ago, they faced an unfortunate turn of events: Maria broke her ankle. Following an emergency medevac to the park’s South Rim, she found help from a volunteer Preventative Search and Rescue (PSAR) ranger who…
October 31, 2017
New Brookings Institution report highlights advantages of urban universities in research-related economic activity ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ ranked 13th in the country—ahead of Harvard, Georgia Tech, and the University of Chicago—in a new study of research universities’ effectiveness in translating…
December 20, 2016
Program renewed for second year; now accepting students and software ideas CWRUcible, a novel software development program based in the university’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO), proved so successful in its first year that it’s just been renewed for a second. The program teams Weatherhead…
September 27, 2016
What if eliminating physical pain was a matter of flipping a switch to block it? No drug needed. When it’s time to stop the block, just turn it off. Researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÊÓÆµ hope to eventually treat chronic or acute pain by using energy-based neuromodulation technology. The…