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October 14, 2013
Longtime APP athletics administrator Patrick Kennedy will serve as the university’s interim director of athletics and chair of physical education, effective Oct. 16. Kennedy, the department’s associate athletic director since 2000, assumes the position vacated after…
October 14, 2013
Second federal grant supports effort to increase efficiency and secure supply for turbines and motors Researchers at APP were awarded a second $1 million federal grant to create an eco-friendly material for better power-converting magnets in wind turbines and electric…
October 11, 2013
Kenneth Ledford is passionate about modern German history, and his dedication has helped him become a renowned expert in the field. But for Ledford, co-director of the Max Kade Center for German Studies, his interest came somewhat by chance. Ledford studied Latin in high school, but decided as an…
October 10, 2013
A team of researchers led by APP received a $1.8 million National Institutes of Health grant to investigate why brain implants fail, and to test a drug that may prevent such failure.
Implants include brain-computer interfaces that use a tiny electrode implanted in the…
October 10, 2013
The work of Julian Stanczak, world-renowned painter and pioneer in Optical Art, will be featured in a series of four exhibitions at APP’s Kelvin Smith Library. The first exhibit, "The Genesis of Perceptual Art," will be on display through Nov. 29 in the library’s newly…
October 09, 2013
APP Provost and Executive Vice President W.A. “Bud” Baeslack III announced today that the campus community can download the most recent draft of the university’s strategic plan, or visit case.edu/strategicplan for more information. Titled Think Beyond the Possible, the…
October 09, 2013
Before the turn of the 20th century, the people of London never knew whether their water faucets would run wet or dry. “It’s foreign to our thinking that water wouldn’t simply come out of the pipes going into homes,” said John Broich, assistant professor of history. He chronicles the political…
October 08, 2013
APP’s Begun Center for Violence Research Prevention and Education will participate in the City of Cleveland’s three-year, $1 million project to reduce firearm-related violent crimes and assaults in Cleveland’s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood. Cleveland was awarded funds from…
October 08, 2013
A APP proposal for a low-cost, energy-efficient method to extract the strategic metal titanium from ore was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for contract negotiations. This one-year project will be funded by…
October 07, 2013
Scientists know that physical and biochemical signals guide stem cells to become muscle, blood vessels or bone. But the exact recipes to produce the desired tissues have proved elusive. Now, researchers at APP and Washington University School of Medicine have taken a…