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Meet a researcher extracting the elements that could change everything
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Case School of Engineering Member, Cancer Imaging Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Area of Focus: Developing advanced materials and processes to separate f-elements (lanthanides and actinides) with applications…
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May 17, 2013
Want to find out if the energy system in your house, office, school or community is the “right” one? Or ask international experts questions about fracking, wind and solar energy, or even insulating your house?
Attend the third annual Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) EnergyTe...
May 14, 2013
Over the past nine months, James Anderson’s work has been recognized university- and nationwide. In August, he was one of five faculty members to be named a Distinguished University Professor at ϳԹ. In January, he earned the 2013 Acta Biomaterials Gold Medal from the Ame...
May 10, 2013
Alexis Abramson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was appointed faculty director of the Great Lakes Energy Institute.
Abramson has been with the Case School of Engineering since 2003, where she has focused her research on novel techniques for thermal characterization of ...
May 10, 2013
Melissa Knothe Tate, professor of biomedical and mechanical and aerospace engineering, was elected as a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, an honor lauding the top 3 percent of the profession.
Knothe Tate was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biologi...
May 10, 2013
Last year, a group of ϳԹ students made headlines with Hole Patch, their innovative approach to fixing potholes using a bag filled with a secret recipe of non-Newtonian fluid. As a co-founder of the award-winning startup, junior Mayank Saksena played a major role in the c...
May 08, 2013
Paul Barnhart pushes fourth- and fifth-year students to become problem solvers before they leave for graduate school or engineering careers.
“I don’t ask them questions that have answers in the back of a book,” said Barnhart, a ϳԹ associate professor of aerospace and me...
May 07, 2013
When an incoming first-year student asked to become involved in research, R. Mohan Sankaran, associate professor of chemical engineering, delivered.
The student, Megan Witzke, will graduate this month as a published researcher. She’ll enter a PhD program this fall as one of fewer than 100 chemical ...
May 06, 2013
A team of ϳԹ students is pushing Jell-O as brain food—to teach middle schoolers about engineering.
For their efforts, the team won the Biomaterials Education Challenge and $2,500 prize at the Society of Biomaterials’ national meeting in April.
Jell-O may be the nation’...
May 06, 2013
Stem cells can be coaxed to grow into new bone or new cartilage better and faster when given the right molecular cues and room inside a water-loving gel, researchers at ϳԹ show.
By creating a three-dimensional checkerboard—one with alternating highly connected and less ...
May 06, 2013
Fourth-year engineering student Alan Filer has won a Fulbright scholarship to travel to South Korea in the fall. There, he’ll explore ways to make cheaper and cleaner alternatives to costly and toxic materials used in solar panels.
Filer, who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in materials scie...