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IC Fellow Sudha Chakrapani, PhD (IC Fellows Cohort 2022) delivered the NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences 2024 Stetten Lecture on Nov. 20. You can watch a recording of her talk, “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Glycinergic Neurotransmission,” on the NIGMS website and read more about her work in NIH’s Biomedical Beat Blog. To learn more about Sudha’s…

From CWRU’s The Daily: “One of the larger productions the department has presented in the past 24 years, Voyages features Professor of Dance Gary Galbraith’s new technology-infused Quest… Galbraith created and choreographed Quest in collaboration with colleagues across the university and with support from an Expanding Horizons Initiative grant through the College of Arts and…

Along with six other CWRU colleagues, Professor Anirban Sen Gupta (IC Fellow Cohort 2023) was made a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), which is “an honor that recognizes their “remarkable innovation-producing technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society.” Read the read the full…

This article originally appeared in the fall/winter 2023 edition of art/sci magazine. “Students at the College of Arts and Sciences are seeing and experiencing remarkable places—without ever leaving the classroom. Wearing mixed-reality headsets, they can walk amid 3D holographic images of a 2,000-year-old Greek religious site; explore the three-dimensional geologic contours of a Hawaiian volcano;…

So excited for our IC Fellows 2024 Cohort member Phil Cola, who along with his collaborators was awarded the Rod Rose Award for, “Most outstanding contribution in the past year to the Journal of Research Administration,” by the Society of Research Administrators International (SRAI). The award was for their article titled “Faculty Views on the…

CWRU’s 2023 Innovation Week was full of spectacular panels, poster sessions, and tours that showcased some of the brightest minds and most adventurous projects happening all over campus. Check out the video below, where our own IC Fellow Professor Elina Gerstman is shown walking guests through her MR app, Immersive Realms.

We are thrilled to join in the celebration of IC Fellow Elina Gerstman, who was just named Distinguished University Professor (CWRU, CAS Art History & Art.) Professor Gertsman created a beautifully immersive Medieval Chapel in mixed reality (“Immersive Realms”) as part of her fellowship at the IC, which from within students can pick up and…

Do you have an idea that you would like to teach in mixed reality? Would you like to be in the next cohort of Interactive Commons (IC) Faculty Fellows? The IC is holding in-house workshops for all interested CWRU faculty and staff to learn about creating in mixed reality (MR). At these workshops we will…