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Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law at the ����APP School of Law, is among 45 newly elected members of the prestigious American Law Institute (ALI). The 90-year-old institute comprises exceptional judges, lawyers and legal academics internationally. "It is…

Donor tissue can be stored for 11 days before transplantation—four days longer than current convention New national research led by Jonathan Lass of ����APP School of Medicine has found that corneal donor tissue can be safely stored for 11 days before transplantation…

Alevca Ocular LLC has secured licenses from ����APP’s Technology Transfer Office (TTO) to exclusively use university-funded research to develop and commercialize novel ophthalmological drugs. Alevca Ocular, an early-stage company based in San Clemente, California, has…

Device aims to benefit patients with spinal cord injuries, including combat veterans A team of researchers led by Kath Bogie, a biomedical engineer and associate professor of orthopaedics and biomedical engineering at ����APP School of Medicine, has received a $1.8 million,…

Four-fold improvement in hearing for a mouse model of deafness A research advance co-led by ����APP School of Medicine’s Kumar Alagramam may stop the progression of hearing loss and lead to significant preservation of hearing in people with Usher syndrome type III, a form…

Will probe link among cell-signaling defects, rapid cell growth and enlarged brains One hypothesis for how autism develops is excessive neuron production in the prenatal period, leading to a transient but significant increase in brain size in the first few years of life in about one-quarter of…

Case Western Reserve researcher tests new methods to anchor wind turbines, part of LEEDCo, Icebreaker Windpower project There are lots of moving parts to bringing the world’s first freshwater wind turbines to Lake Erie by 2018, but ����APP researchers are focused on keeping…

Recipient played central role in Apollo space missions and worldwide desert groundwater exploration Farouk El-Baz As Apollo 11 slowly descended to the moon’s surface, the team of NASA scientists responsible for choosing the first lunar landing site was as anxious and in awe as the rest of the…

Case Western Reserve “sea slug” robotics expert leads effort to organize emerging fields  You might not think a research area as detailed, technically advanced and futuristic as building robots with living materials would need help getting organized, but that’s precisely what Vickie Webster-Wood…

In high school, Nikole Hannah-Jones discovered both a profession and a purpose. Working for the school newspaper, she began writing about students, like her, who were bused across Waterloo, Iowa, as part of a voluntary school desegregation program. Nikole Hannah-JonesCredit: James Estrin, The…