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Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices

Three ¹ú²úÂ×Àí students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. 

Together, with the help of LaunchNET ¹ú²úÂ×Àí, the three created Case.MD. Ariella Yager, entrepreneur major in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Business Administration; Samuel Graska, cell and molecular biology major in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Arts and Sciences; and Justin Gleason, graduate student in ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design spent more than a year planning, inventing, designing and 3-D printing smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

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Case.MD helps make emergency medicine more convenient and safe.

Students Turn Smartphone Cases Into Lifesaving Medical Devices

With the help of LaunchNET ¹ú²úÂ×Àí, three students have created smartphone cases that contain vital medication. Wherever your smartphone goes, so does the medication.

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Students discuss their project during the 2016 Fashion/Tech Hackathon at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Fashions School.

¹ú²úÂ×Àí Fashion/Tech Hackathon Set for Jan. 27-29

Students gets ready to innovate, design and bring wearable technology to life at the 2017 Fashion/Tech Hackathon Jan. 27-29.

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Idea Generation & Market Research

Idea GenerationIdea NapkinUse this idea napkin to think through what you're working on and the elements that surround it such your audience and the value your idea brings.Bug ListA Bug List — in the context of entrepreneurship and creativity — is a list of things that you encounter throughout your d…

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¹ú²úÂ×Àí Entrepreneur Wins Burton D. Morgan PITCH U Competition

¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s Shanice Cheatham is one step closer to helping health care workers stop the spread of disease in underdeveloped countries. Cheatham took first place and won $4500 in the PITCH U elevator competition at the University of Akron, with the generous support of the Burton D. Morgan…

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No Desk Jobs for These ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Alumna

Walk the halls of some secondary private schools in Ohio and you will see students adorned in what appears to be typical school attire: striped skirts, traditional ties and stark white button-up oxfords.     What you do not see are the amazing women around the globe who use se…

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Women Turn Ideas Into Businesses

Walk the halls of some secondary private schools in Ohio and you will see students adorned in what appears to be typical school attire: striped skirts, traditional ties and stark white button-up oxfords. What you won't see is the hard work behind the attire.       &nbs…

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LaunchNET Awards and Expo celebrates entrepreneurs

LaunchNET Celebrates with Awards & Expo

The university and local community are invited to join LaunchNET as we celebrate the success of ¹ú²úÂ×Àí entrepreneurs! Over 1,200 students, faculty/staff and alumni from across the university have participated in the NEOLaunchNET program at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí. Many of these innovators …

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Shanice Cheatham worked with ¹ú²úÂ×Àí’s College of Public Health and LaunchNET ¹ú²úÂ×Àí to help her company, Endemic Solutions, develop its Endemic Filtration Portable Handwashing System.

Life-Changing Event Inspires ¹ú²úÂ×Àí Entrepreneur to Help Prevent Infectious Diseases

In 2009, Shanice Cheatham, who received her bachelor’s degree from ¹ú²úÂ×Àí in 2013 and is pursuing a graduate degree in environmental health sciences at ¹ú²úÂ×Àí, was told that her father had a 10 percent chance of living after being infected with MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylo…

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