• New Faculty Spotlight: Sam Root

    Sam Root’s interest in knowledge of polymers started in high school. His father worked in the flexographic printing industry and after school, Root would head to the plant to do quality control. When his interest in organic materials chemistry, soft matter physics, and engineering started to grow, he decided to study chemical engineering.

  • Kathleen A. Harper awarded Winter 2025 AAPT Fellowship

    As a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers since 1994, Kathleen A. Harper, a lifetime member, will receive the Winter 2025 AAPT Fellowship in January. The fellowship recognizes AAPT members who have shown “exceptional contribution to AAPT's mission to enhance the understanding and appreciation of physics through teaching.“

  • SDLE Envoys program brings local high school students to campus to conduct research

    Since its founding in 2006, the Envoys program has impacted hundreds of high school students in Cleveland and East Cleveland schools. With the purpose of increasing access to STEAM for underrepresented minority students, the Envoys program supports a number of students each summer to engage in research projects on campus for three summers, from 10th grade through 12th grade.

  • CWRU researchers partner on $26 million NSF grant focused on domestic rubber production

    From automobile and aircraft tires, to belts and hoses, natural rubber production is essential to modern production. Unfortunately, the world’s primary rubber supply—the tropical rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis—is shrinking, and supply chains originate outside of the U.S. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are working with colleagues at The Ohio State University to accelerate natural rubber production in the United States.

  • Case Western Reserve University to offer full funding to Hertz Fellowship finalists

    Case Western Reserve University has a new offer for the 25 to 30 students each year who are named finalists for the prestigious Hertz Fellowship but are not ultimately selected as Fellows: Matriculate at CWRU and receive full financial benefits. The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has agreements in place with more than 40 schools to let students accept their support while pursuing graduate studies.

  • Two engineering students receive honor society scholarship

    Since 1998, Tau Beta Pi Honor Society has granted over 4,000 scholarships to engineering students across the country. This year, two Case School of Engineering students received the honor. From a pool of over 1,300 applications, only 253 students were chosen—among them were biomedical engineering students Michael Kong and Dhruv Shah. 

  • Chirag Kharangate receives prestigious award from the ASME

    Chirag Kharangate, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was awarded the 2024 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Electronic & Photonic Packaging Division (EPPD) Early Career Engineer Award at this year’s ASME InterPACK Conference.

  • Case Western Reserve University-led research team awarded $4M federal grant to develop ArgoPV—a generative AI to improve lifecycle of solar energy systems

    With a new $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers at Case Western Reserve University will lead a project to improve the lifecycle of photovoltaic solar energy systems—from fabrication and electricity production through their end of service. The Case Western Reserve-led project is headed by Roger French, the Kyocera Professor in Materials Science at Case School of Engineering and director of the university’s Solar Durability and Lifetime Extension Research Center.

  • Spartan Showcase: Daniel Clare

    Daniel Clare, a third-year student majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering, has worked late into the night many times at Case Western Reserve University. But it’s not just his studies that keep him up. 

  • Summer Spotlight: Joseph Ahmed

    Meet Joseph Ahmed, aerospace and mechanical engineering student, who worked as the Defense Manufacturing Engineering Intern at Rolls-Royce.

  • New Faculty Spotlight: Xiaotian Han

    Xiaotian Han is passionate about leveraging cutting-edge AI techniques to solve complex problems, pushing the boundaries of what technology can achieve. “I chose to study computer science due to my fascination with machine learning and its impact on our world,” Han shared.