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Campus News
December 11, 2003

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School of Medicine
Case to create drug to treat eye disease

Under a new $4.7 million grant from the National Eye Institute, researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland hope to develop in five years a drug ready for human clinical trials to treat myasthenia gravis.

Weatherhead School of Management
AUTOnomy
The Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management's Bold Thinkers Series featured J. Byron McCormick, executive director of fuel cell technology and commercialization at General Motors.

College of Arts and Sciences
Köll fends off frostbite to explore history of early Chinese industry
Elisabeth Koll wore four layers of clothing to ward off the bone-chilling cold that seeped through the walls of the municipal archives in Nantong, China, while researching her new book.

Case School of Engineering
New implantable device to offer patients relief from sleep apnea
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University's Case School of Engineering are developing an implanted medical device slightly larger than a postage stamp to help 20 million Americans who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea.

On the rise
U.S. Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, gave a speech and conducted a question-and-answer session on America's war on terror and its effect on U.S. foreign policy.

Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Study to promote well-being of adopted youth
Two researchers from Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences have received a $700,000, four-year grant to help ensure that adopted children get the proper services to overcome developmental and social/emotional problems.

Tech transfer soars in two schools
During the 2002–2003 fiscal year, Case Western Reserve University's College of Arts and Sciences and Case School of Engineering produced more than twice the expected number of invention disclosures—and they are on track to do so again this year.

College of Arts and Sciences
Team to search for secrets of cosmos beneath Earth's surface
A detective hunt to solve two of the universe's biggest mysteries is taking a team of physicists, including ones from Case Western Reserve University, a half-mile below the Earth's surface.

Weatherhead School of Management
Case to form partnership to focus on regional entrepreneurship activities
Recognizing the need for increased focus within Northeast Ohio's entrepreneurial community, Case Western Reserve University and NorTech will team up to create a new organization that will combine the service lines of Case's Enterprise Development Inc. and NorTech's NEOpreneur Inc.

School of Dental Medicine
Dental students, faculty, alums know what's in a name
Dental faculty, alumni and students at Case Western Reserve University who want their school's name to reflect its focus on the overall health of patients have overwhelmingly supported changing that name from the Case School of Dentistry to the Case School of Dental Medicine.

School of Dental Medicine
Researchers to study private dental practices in depth, set teaching standards
Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine are leading the first in-depth study of daily activities in private dental practices.

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