

Maxwell Briggs ’06, MS ’08, PhD ’15, is a space engineer at heart. But to shape the future of space travel, he
needed to think bigger.

Seizing the cosmic moment
With totality, the Case Amateur Radio Club saw a chance for ‘citizen science’


Case professor will lead a multi-million dollar quest to create a better treatment for arthritis


Climate warrior
After leading the College of Arts and Sciences for a dozen years, Professor Cyrus Taylor is on a new and urgent quest: saving the world from global warming.

Pencil poised above a drawing board, a T-square positioned for a
line, a shirtless young man in hiking shoes (and funky socks) partakes
in a Case academic tradition in 1953.

Alumna finds focus and fulfillment as a first responder with a volunteer fire department.

Emily Dickens ’19, MEM ’20, passed on the corporate world to join a battery startup. She saw a better chance at doing something awesome.





Hang Loi escaped the Fall of
Saigon and became a leading
engineer for 3M. Now she hopes
to inspire other women to take
the road less travelled.

Cleveland Browns’ Coach Blanton Collier used to complain that his star quarterback would overthink things. He wanted Frank Ryan to rely on his instincts and powerful arm to win NFL football games



In one of its largest building projects in decades, the university will build a $300 million laboratory complex designed for team science.


Case alumni committed early and big to the vision of a $300 million research building on Case Quad.

As the era of artificial intelligence dawns, Cal Al-Dhubaib is ready to help us meet the startling new
normal. We’re going to need him.

Time for new blood
Case team is part of an historic effort to create the world’s first artificial blood.

A president with panache
Resting his elbow on his white Thunderbird, his other hand tucked inside his jacket pocket, T. Keith Glennan appears happy to pose as he arrives for work in 1957. By this point, he had been president of Case Institute of Technology for nearly a decade.

Powering the future
The U.S. invests another $12 million into Case’s efforts to build a better battery.


What a ride
Alumna leaves helm of NASA Glenn after nearly 40 years with the space agency.




Karl Zender ’59, PhD, started his career with a degree in physics from Case and ended as a professor emeritus of English. How did that happen?

Using science developed at Case, a technology company aims to make Cleveland a hub of polymer manufacturing.







Brian Taylor, a trumpet-playing
biological engineer, finds that jazz
and engineering share a tempo.


Academic trailblazer
Illinois State chooses a Case-trained scientist as its first woman president


Lordy, lordy look who’s 140
With the aid of alumni, KSL plans to commemorate Case history



Solid idea
With a new and unusual lab, Case hopes to become a leader in concrete innovations


Building smarter robots
Case researchers take lead role in national effort to breathe life into cyborgs

100 years of Case Alumnus
How has Case changed across a century? Sometimes a magazine cover is worth a thousand words.