think[box] Radio Case Alumni Association
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Think[box] Radio Season 2 EP. 9: Krazy for Case
Driven, smart, creative. That’s Franco “Krais” Kraiselburd, a student so atypical, he
typifies today’s Case student. The third-year biomedical engineering major is CEO
of his own startup, a guitarist in a rock band, and the founder of a new student
group. Hailing from Argentina, he speaks four languages, which is why he can
order his pizza in Italian in Little Italy.
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Think[box] Radio Season 2 EP. 8: Bold science, new blood
Anirban Sen Gupta, a professor of biomedical engineering, has spent much of his career seeking a substitute for whole blood, which is always in short supply. Suddenly, his quest looks a lot more attainable. Sen Gupta’s lab will play a key role in a $46 million federally funded effort to develop artificial blood. It’s a project could achieve an historic first as it revolutionizes approaches to emergency care.
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Think[box] Radio Season 2 EP 7: Research Catalyst
Joy Ward is a biologist, a climate scientist, and the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. She’s also a research catalyst who has clearly made her mark since arriving from the University of Kansas three years ago. Her signature program, the Expanding Horizons Initiative, has opened up new research opportunities to faculty and students by funding interdisciplinary student-faculty teams. It also offers a window onto some of the fascinating research taking place at Case.
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Season 2 Episode 6: A Lighthanded touch
While most popular with students, Sears think[box] is open to all. That includes alumni like Steve Burns ’11, MEM ’11, Brecken Blackburn, PhD ’21, and Matt McPheeters ’12, MS ’13, PhD ’21. The trio tapped the resources of the campus innovation center to launch their company, Lighthanded, and to develop a promising medical device.
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Season 2 Episode 5: Thinking about think[box] at 10
Sears think[box] began a decade ago as a basement maker space in an
engineering building. Today it’s the largest open-access innovation center on an
American college campus. Jim McGuffin-Cawley, PhD ’84, the faculty director of
Sears think[box], shares his vision for the future of this uncommon resource as
workers add the finishing touches to the towering Richey-Mixon Building.
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Season 2 Episode 4: A CLEANR Wash
You might be surprised to learn that the biggest single source of microplastics in our drinking water is your laundry. The fibers and dies in your clothes teem with specs of plastic, which flow out in the washing machine wastewater. It’s an unseen mess that a trio of young Case engineers aims to clean up. Their startup, CLEANR, is developing a washing machine filter—just as many states and nations are poised to mandate such a device.
Tapping campus resources
Max Pennington ’22, David Dillman and Chip Miller became friends through their fraternity, Sigma Chi. But they became partners because of their shared concern for microplastics in our in our drinking water.
Pennington, a chemical engineering major, alerted his classmates to the problem and they resolved to find a solution. They combined their skills and their passions to launch CLEANR, which incorporated in July of 2022. They also tapped the entrepreneurship resources available to students at CWRU. Those include the campus startup consultancy, LaunchNet, the classes and advising offered by the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship, and the fabrication and prototyping equipment of Sears think[box], where CLEANR is headquartered.
Their story illustrates what can happen when drive meets resources—as it often does at Case.
Follow the company on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/cleanrh2o/
Company website: https://c212.adwatchmedia.com/