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The Center for Law, Technology & the Arts ("Center for LTA") was created with the understanding that technologic and artistic expression are both part of the human creative enterprise, and there are artistic influences in science and scientific influences in the arts. Also behind the Center for LTA's creation was the recognition that the ongoing technological revolution of recent years presents new opportunities and challenges for our legal system pertaining to technological innovation and related proprietary rights. Moreover, there have been significant national and international developments in the visual and musical arts that offer their own opportunities and challenges. Law and technology and law and the arts are burgeoning fields that present some of the most exciting, important, and complex issues facing not only our legal system, but also the business and technology communities. |
The Center mission is: "To promote health in the world and enrich our community". This is accomplished by bringing together experts from the Case community that specialize in infectious diseases, epidemiology, anthropology, tropical diseases, nursing, pediatrics, etc., and by uniting the Case faculty in programs of collaborative research and education, student and faculty international exchanges, and community enrichment to promote health in the world and enrich the international community.
The Center focuses on three main objectives that have been present throughout its history:
Linkages - to develop a critical mass of creative investigators with multidisciplinary capabilities and provide them with appropriate resources and environment for basic, clinical and epidemiological research, in order to develop linkages within and beyond the University community.
Education and training - to establish an education and training program to insure the continuing replenishment of the pool of intellectual talent in this country and to enhance the scientific proficiency of scientists from developing countries via an educational program based at the University, reaching a wide audience.
Research and application - to develop a collaborative interdisciplinary application program in international health overseas in order to bring together diverse disciplines, adaptation and adoption of practices and the application of technology to the under served populations of the world. |
The Center, based in the School of Medicine, with university wide associations is engaging the many strengths of the University and the community to:
Improve the health of the community
Educate and empower the community to become better consumers of healthcare and more informed and stronger advocates for healthcare policy and legislation in their own interests.
Encourage members of the community enter careers in the biomedical workforce and healthcare professions.
The Center has engaged the community at the level of the individual and the neighborhood, in public and private schools, at civic and faith-based organizations, and at the level of governmental agencies and community leadership to identify community problems, perceptions, assets and resources; advise the community of faculty skills, assets and expertise; and, catalyze that community service based scholarship that benefits community interests and promotes mutual enhancement.
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The Center conceptualizes and conducts research on Tibetan history, society, language, ecology/physiology and culture so as to understand traditional Tibet and the manner in which it has changed. The Center maintains a collaborative relationship with the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences (TASS) in Lhasa, and has undertaken a wide range of research projects on different aspects of present and past Tibet with the cooperation of TASS. Since 1988, the Center has hosted eight scholars from TASS for periods ranging from 6 months to one year. Two young Tibetan researchers from TASS have received Masters of Arts degrees in Anthropology (1988 and 2003), while another Tibetan student earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in 2001.
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A fuel cell, like a battery, converts chemical energy to electricity. But unlike a battery, the fuel and oxidant are not contained within the device, but externally. In the case of the direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) the fuel is methanol, which is stored as a liquid in tanks and has properties similar to liquid alcohol and water. The oxidant for the fuel cell is oxygen taken from the outside air, therefore it is not necessary to accommodate its storage. There is intense interest in fuel cells driven by the need for high efficiency and lower polluting energy for transportation and stationary power. Fuel cells have the potential to be attractive battery replacement devices because of their energy storage capacity, which is significantly greater than batteries. The University just completed a 5-year $8.8 million University Research Initiative to advance the technology basis for a direct methanol fuel cell. The primary target for this program was portable power, especially for military applications. New work sponsored by DARPA is focused on extending our fuel cell research, but adding the microfabrication expertise of Prof. C.C. Liu to create the technology to make micro fuel cells fabricated onto silicon and other substrate materials. |
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