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The offcial Tumblr for the Case Alumni Association. Stay connected to your school and read more about events and items of interest to engineers, scientists, current students, and alumni. https://www.casealum.org/

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Startup City

The Cleveland Scene on the city's growing reputation as a tech startup haven. Proud of our Case alumni who grow their businesses in CLE!

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"Make no mistake: Zoback is a proponent of harvesting gas and oil from the country's shale deposits, saying it offers the United States an opportunity for greater energy independence. But he said scientists and drillers need to get better at predicting and managing seismic activity triggered by shale gas development."

Read more about the NAE's conference, Shale Gas: Promises and Challenges, held on Case's campus this week: http://ow.ly/mbXrg 

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Join All [In], Case's day of giving, by donating any amount now, and you'll be entered to win a free lunch with Case School of Engineering Dean Jeffrey Duerk! What's stopping you?

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Participate in this day-long giving event and you'll be eligible for prizes from the Case Western Reserve University Alumni Association. Follow the link to give, or check out the CWRU Alumni Association Facebook page for more info: https://www.facebook.com/cwrualumni?fref=ts

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Researchers create vest that would detect cancers before symptoms arise

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The IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC) computer, an electromechanical computer operated from 1948 to 1952.

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“Modern medicine is a technology-dependent science. In order to treat patients effectively, doctors-in-training need to have access to the latest technological advances,” Toby M. Cosgrove, M.D. said. “From electronic medical records to robotic surgery, from telemedicine to advanced imaging, medical students need to be prepared to practice medicine of the future.”

Read more about the new medical education partnership between CWRU and the Cleveland Clinic here: https://www.casealum.org/Latest_News?ncs1983=0

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Cleveland bridges have problems, but not the kind that collapsed a Seattle-area span

A CWRU civil engineering professor helps shed light on Cleveland's bridges in the Plain Dealer.

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"[The] shortage of a workforce trained in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is potentially the biggest long-term threat to a US economy that has thrived on its ability to innovate and develop much of today’s rapidly advancing technology."

Great article by Case alum Jim Treleaven. Read more here:

http://tbkconsultblog.com/2013/04/16/lack-of-stem-grads-in-the-us-is-a-global-problem/

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3D printing helps save lives, and you can help bring the latest in printing technology to CWRU

Researchers at the University of Michigan have used a 3-D printer to create a custom-made, life-saving implant for baby boy, they report in a letter in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Doctors use 3D printing to save a tiny patient's life.

Bring this technology to CWRU by donating to casestarter today!

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Have you placed your order yet? The much-anticipated Fitbit Flex is finally available.

Those who pre-ordered were a little angry that select retailers, like Best Buy, had Fitbit Flexes for sale the same day their orders shipped. What was the point of pre-ordering?…

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Cells as Living Calculators

Using analog computation circuits, MIT engineers design cells that can compute logarithms, divide and take square roots.

MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three or fewer genetic parts.

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Case Western Reserve researchers discover water on moon, Earth came from same source

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Small World Competition

Confocal image of rat cerebral cortex (40x)

Credit: Madelyn May

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Motor generators for radiotron testing, circa 1920s. Testing many hundreds of tubes simultaneously requires a bank of generators for various voltages to light the filaments and supply current for the plate circuits. The rear of the control switchboard is also shown.