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James McGuffin-Cawley has built his career around creating opportunities for students. It’s the main reason he transitioned into an administrative role at the Case School of Engineering several years ago. And it’s what led him to his new position as the faculty director of the university’s innovatio...

How the university’s innovation center transformed into a pandemic problem-solver By Michelle Kolk This article first appeared in a summer publication related to the university’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More articles will appear in The Daily and on the university and school social media...

Known as SUDS, the invention design is available by non-commercial creative commons license from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø A device that aims to decontaminate N95 respirators in roughly a minute has been created by a team at the Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[box] at Case Western ...

The Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[box], ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s innovation center, has re-opened on a trial basis through July 15. During this initial re-opening phase, access is by reservation only. Students, staff and faculty can request a reservation online. In order to r...

Devices being developed at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s public-access innovation center in collaboration with University Hospitals protect front-line health care workers Northeast Ohio health care workers on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19 are benefitting from innovative devices being deve...

Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears think[box] is providing targeted prototyping, design and fabrication support for ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers and local medical professionals working on projects to address needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Staff from Sears think[box] set up an online...

Manufacturers in Akron, Cleveland and Erie (PA) to produce 5,000 shields per day An engineering team from Case Western Reserve University, Nottingham Spirk and Penn State Behrend have partnered with manufacturers in Northeast Ohio and Erie, Pennsylvania, to launch rapid production of face shields f...

Students are invited to join a roundtable discussion with Margaret O’Mara on Friday, March 27 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. on floor 6 of think[box] as part of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Entrepreneurship Series. Margaret O’Mara, the Howard & Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington, will d...

Undergraduate women in STEM are encouraged to apply for the Program Rewarding Innovation in STEM Entrepreneurship (PRISE), a project-based learning cohort of STEM students who receive coaching and financial support to launch a STEM venture of their choosing. The program is an initiative of the Flor...

Sears think[box] has created a campus culture survey in order to better understand and serve the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. This survey is optional and will take approximately 12 minutes to complete. Take the survey. Participants will be entered ...