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Entrepreneurial alumnus and family commit $1.5 million to Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building

Miguel Zubizarreta (CWR ‘90) likes to be part of projects from the beginning. In the early 1990s he collaborated with the founder of a small startup to create a new software solution that launched Hyland Software’s journey to becoming a thriving global enterprise. Now Zubizarreta and his family are among the first to support another promising effort: Case Western Reserve University's Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building.

Fighting sickle cell disease in America

A private company’s effort to bring its portable point-of-care test for sickle cell disease (SCD) and other inherited blood diseases to the United States is supported by technology developed at Case Western Reserve University.

Alumni couple commits $5 million to Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building

As a longtime social impact and angel investor, Aarti Chandna knows well what she needs to see before committing to support a project. "The way I look at it—any successful company has to be a place where different disciplines can work together well," said Chandna, a Case Western Reserve alumnus and trustee. "No single discipline can exist on its own."

Rohan Akolkar wins international award

Case Western Reserve University electrochemical engineer Rohan Akolkar—whose pioneering research has applications in nano-material fabrication, energy storage, electrometallurgy and sensors—has been selected as the 2023 winner of an international award from The Electrochemical Society (ECS).

Working to make steel greener, cleaner

Case Western Reserve University chemical engineer Rohan Akolkar is leading a research team working to develop a new zero-carbon, electrochemical process to produce iron metal from ore. If successful, the project could be a first step toward eliminating harmful greenhouse gas emissions by eventually replacing century-old, blast-furnace ironmaking with a new electrolytic-iron production process.

CWRU on 60 Minutes—worth watching twice

History’s most successful broadcast newsmagazine is re-running a spring segment featuring Case Western Reserve University researchers at 7 p.m. this Sunday, July 16. The piece highlights advances by biomedical engineering professors Dustin Tyler and A. Bolu Ajiboye and their teams in restoring movement and the sense of touch for individuals who have become paralyzed or lost a limb.

Engineering alumnus and partner commit $2.5 million to science and engineering building

Since he first stepped onto the Case Quad as an electrical engineering student in 1970, Larry Enterline (CIT ’74) has recognized the value of exploring fields beyond his specialty. Throughout a career spanning more than four decades, he’s held positions in engineering, manufacturing, marketing and sales—with each discipline enhancing and informing the next. Today, he is investing in the promise of such complementary work