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Zoe Sekyonda
Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship announces winners of 2026 Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition
Fifteen student-led teams competed for more than $45,000 in prizes across three tracks
Ozan Akkus
The body heals itself with collagen. A CWRU lab spins it into surgical thread
A conversation with Ozan Akkus, PhD, engineering professor and entrepreneur, CWRU alum, and co-founder of CollaMedix
Abigail Mondragon, Philip Polito and Jack Kellogg at the construction site of the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building. Photography by Nancy Andrews.
Inside the build: Meet individuals behind the construction of CWRU’s ISEB project
This October, Case Western Reserve University will open the doors to its new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), a 189,000-square-foot facility designed to foster innovative research across eight collaborative laboratories. While many will have the opportunity to see the…
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Meet a graduating engineering student combining his technical expertise with his leadership skills
As he prepares to graduate next month, Case Western Reserve University undergraduate Amadosi Ologunja has promising leadership potential in the engineering field, pairing his Case School of Engineering education with experience gained working outside of the classroom.Even before arriving at CWRU,…
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Case Western Reserve University named to Forbes’ ‘New Ivies’ list
Evaluation based on preparing and graduating students that employers seek in an evolving AI-driven workforce
 Blessing Masanga
Undergraduate student Blessing Masanga places second at 2026 Midwest Climate Collaborative Summit
Blessing Masanga, a first-year Case Western Reserve University computer science student, was honored with a second-place poster competition award at the 2026 Midwest Climate Collaborative Summit. The award recognizes her poster presentation titled “Departmental footprint: Redefining sustainability…
Jacob Akana (pictured left) receives the J. Earl Frazier Memorial Scholarship.
Undergraduate Jacob Akana receives J. Earl Frazier Memorial Scholarship
In March, the Pittsburgh section of the American Ceramic Society awarded the J. Earl Frazier Memorial Scholarship to Jacob Akana, a second-year student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, in recognition of his research. This scholarship is…
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Nationally renowned electrical engineer named dean of Case Western Reserve University’s engineering school
Susan Hagness, longtime professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison, brings exceptional research, education and leadership experience to Case School of Engineering
Michael Rosenfield
The bug stops here: how a CWRU alum left Google to build an AI startup
Every time a software team releases an update, there’s a new risk of something else breaking. CWRU alum and entrepreneur Michael Rosenfield (CWR ’17), saw the problem firsthand at Google—and watched engineering teams manually check that nothing had gone wrong after every change.His San…
Vibha Mandayam
Meet a master’s student whose dedication to nature began at the nearby Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Growing up in nearby Stow, Ohio, Case Western Reserve University master’s student Vibha Mandayam (CWR ’25) spent her childhood admiring the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, developing an appreciation and protectiveness of nature. Now, she’s turning that dedication into action as an intern helping…