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Receiving the highest honor among the global biomaterials community, Anirban Sen Gupta is now one of less than 500 individuals to become a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE).

Abhinendra Singh is taking his work beyond science. In four of his last published articles, Singh has stressed the importance of the art that represents his work. Now, his scientific art has seen the cover of four publications—two editions of Soft Matter, Physical Review Letters and MRS Communications. But Singh’s vision reaches beyond publications. He is hoping that his passion for art in STEM can inspire young people to join fields they might not have considered before. 

Meet Henry Lliguicota-Lema, fourth-year student majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in computer science, who found his niche at CWRU with student organizations such as the Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers (SHPE), First CWRU and La Alianza. During his time at the university, he also has been highly involved with the university’s Medical Technology Group, which aims to enhance motor independence for children with cerebral palsy using assistive technology. He serves as the organization’s vice president of design.

With a vision of “a world where people believe in their ability to innovate and tackle the most ill-structured challenges of our time,” DFA, a nationwide organization with a chapter at Case Western Reserve University, resonates with students across campus and even across Cleveland, collaborating with students from the Cleveland Institute of Art. 

Fatih Ahmet Gurbuz has a goal to optimize supply chains by utilizing technology and putting the customer experience first. “This summer I was working at Amazon,” the fourth-year computer science student said. “One of the leadership principles they insisted on was customer obsession. Customer, customer, customer. The customer was always the star, not the competitors.”

In early November, Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted the Society For Biomaterials (SFB) Biomaterials Day on campus. Adding up to be the largest in department history, 153 attendees hailing from Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania, University Of Michigan, University of Kentucky, Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State University, University of Akron, Cleveland State University and The Cleveland Clinic joined the day’s activities, ranging from keynote speakers to a poster session and an industry lunch.

With a $3.99 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, biomedical engineers from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago will begin testing an implantable device that restores the sense of touch to breast cancer patients after reconstructive surgery.

A spin-off company from Case Western Reserve University has reimagined the often dangerous, labor-intensive process of road painting. While painting lines parallel to curbs is often an automated step, the typical approach to create many other new road markings is antiquated and dangerous.

When the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB) opens in 2026, the Case Western Reserve community will discover a bright and vibrant space designed to create an atmosphere of new ideas, possibilities and partnerships—both planned and serendipitous.

Xiong "Bill" Yu, PhD, is applying artificial intelligence (AI) and mixed-reality visualization tools to better understand—and someday possibly fix—the legacy problems of leaky municipal water systems and crumbling highway bridges.

Satish Viswanath, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Case School of Engineering, traveled to Malaysia in August as part of the Fulbright Specialist Program. During his two-week placement at Multimedia University in Cyberjaya, Viswanath’s work centered on artificial intelligence (AI) and digital pathology—two topics that closely align with his work at Case Western Reserve.

A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University is part of a national effort to “reimagine” steel production, developing an innovative and low-cost process that could replace blast furnaces for ironmaking. If successful, officials at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) believe the effort could reduce greenhouse gas emissions in steelmaking by as much 85%.

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.

With a new five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a Case Western Reserve University researcher is leading a project to expand and accelerate the evolution of personalized medicine in treating diseases.

From Oct. 26 through 28, 12 members from the CWRU Society of Women Engineerings headed to Los Angeles, California for WE23—the world's largest conference for women in engineering and technology. Here's what SWE's communication director and third-year biomedical engineering student, Saloni Baral, shared about the experience.