A research team led by biomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University and collaborating with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation has received a $1.9 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop injectable artificial platelets that halt bleeding by sticking to bleeding sites and signaling natural platelets to home in on them.
The technology has broad applications to staunch bleeding in patients suffering from traumatic injury or surgery, as well as those with clotting disorders from deficiencies in platelet number or defects in platelet functions.
Sprav Water LLC, a company created by engineering students from Case Western Reserve University and a Cleveland Institute of Art graduate to develop “smart” showerhead meters that can save water and cut energy bills, has won a statewide collegiate clean energy competition.
By capturing the 2014 Ohio Clean Energy Challenge, the Sprav team earned $10,000 and a shot at $100,000 at the Midwest regional competition hosted by the Clean Energy Trust in Chicago on April 3. Winning teams from Chicago and five other regionals will advance to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition in Washington, D.C., this summer.
Case Western Reserve alumnus and former COO of Microsoft Bob Herbold addressed some 600 engineering students, faculty and staff at the E-Week Banquet held on Feb. 20.
His keynote address included lessons learned from the ups and downs of some of the world’s biggest technology companies—from Apple and Blackberry to Netflix and Blockbuster.
Watch Herbold’s speech now.
Anatomy Camp—a set of community education programs at Case Western Reserve University design to introduce high school and middle school students to science and promote healthy living—has been featured in American Way, the in-flight magazine of American Airlines-American Eagle.
The program is organized by the Leonard Gelfand STEM Center, a collaboration between the Case School of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.
Read the full article in American Way.
The materials science and engineering program at the Case School of Engineering has been named one of the top 12 programs at private universities in the country, according to a list compiled by Goodfellow, a leading supplier of metals, polymers, ceramics and other materials to science and industry.
The company compiled lists of the nation’s top programs at public and private universities.
See the full listing here.
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