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July 31, 2012
Mechanical engineering junior Andre White, who is currently on co-op with Boeing, says Drexel's co-op program arms students with an "extra notch of competitiveness."
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July 30, 2012
DrexelNow recently checked in with fashion design professor Alphonso McClendon to discuss fashion’s role in the 2012 Olympics and specifically the recent controversy over the Team USA opening ceremony clothing.
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July 30, 2012
Meet Michael Brennan, a computer science Ph.D. candidate who has a passion for the intersection of computer science and its effect on society.
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July 30, 2012
The U.S. men's eight boat finished first in the preliminary heat and will advance to Final A on August 1 at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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July 27, 2012
Former Drexel rower Steve Kasprzyk is part of the United States men's eight boat that will take the water at Elton Dorney for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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July 25, 2012
Drexel is returning the School of Education to independent status, which recognizes the school's achievements and encourages further growth.
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July 24, 2012
With summer in full swing and folks enjoying the outdoors, the College of Medicine's Dr. Christina Chung debunks a few popular myths about sun protection.
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July 24, 2012
DrexelNow recently spoke with Dr. Paula Marantz Cohen, distinguished professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of English and Philosophy. She is currently reading Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America by John M. Barry.
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July 24, 2012
In 1992, the United Nations held a summit to find a way to lift billions of people out of poverty without exhausting the planet’s resources. Twenty years later, experts from around the globe—including Drexel’s Dr. Dov Jaron—convened once again to move beyond the political promises of the 1990s and begin accomplishing goals.
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July 23, 2012
DrexelNow spoke with LeBow's Yael Branscom, assistant director of marketing, to discuss the college’s Words I Live By advertising campaign.
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July 19, 2012
Harriet Cole, a maid employed at what is known today as Drexel’s College of Medicine, willed her body to science just before her untimely death in the late 1800s. Her sacrfice can still be appreciated today at Drexel's Queen Lane Campus.
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July 18, 2012
Drexel's Dr. Eugenia Victoria Ellis has a lot on her plate—but only in the academic sense. She recently took time to chat with DrexelNow about what she’s reading in her spare time—a book called The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf.
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July 18, 2012
Drexel senior Amanda Pentecost is currently in China working at the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI). She is the first student to take part in the Drexel-SARI partnership.
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July 18, 2012
School of Public Health Dean Marla Gold Gold talked with DrexelNow about the new at-home HIV test and how it could affect the trajectory of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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July 16, 2012
The historic Anthony J. Drexel Picture Gallery is closed through November 2012 for renovations. The gallery, which is located on the third floor of the Main Building, will retain its original design from 1902.
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July 11, 2012
In the wake of the Supreme Court's heath care decision, DrexelNow asked Dr. Robert Field, a professor at the School of Public Health and the Earle Mack School of Law, to put the ruling in context, and offer his thoughts on whether the fight over the controversial law was really over—or if it had just begun.
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July 11, 2012
Dr. Michael Lowe, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, studies the psychobiology of eating and weight regulation, eating disorders and social cognition. He is currently reading Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker.
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July 11, 2012
Drexel students Matt Klahre and Danny Fornasa have just a few short months before they begin their senior year this fall. Until then, these two friends and band mates are living out their rock-and-roll dream touring the country with their band D&M.
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July 10, 2012
During a time when many college students are struggling to find jobs after graduation, Drexel’s co-op program has allowed students like Anna Petrone to get ahead of the game.
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July 10, 2012
DrexelNow asked Dr. Richardson Dilworth, an associate professor and director for Drexel’s Center for Public Policy, if Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law could impact the presidential election.
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July 9, 2012
DrexelNow spoke with Dr. David Goldberg, associate professor of physics at Drexel, in the days after the CERN research center in Switzerland announced the possible identification of the Higgs boson. We asked him what it means and why we should care.
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July 5, 2012
The staff at Drexel's Center for Interdisciplinary Clinical Simulation are masters at recreating wounds, scrapes, blisters and burns.
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July 3, 2012
DrexelNow chatted with Drexel’s Cyndi Rickards, assistant teaching professor of criminal justice and instructor of Drexel’s course “Prison, Society and You." She's currently reading The Other Wes Moore—One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore.
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July 2, 2012
DrexelNow recently chatted with Rob D’Ovidio, associate professor of criminal justice and director of Drexel’s program in computer crime and digital forensics, who is an expert on computer crime, Internet safety, identity theft and surveillance.
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July 2, 2012
Four students from the College of Engineering recently saw their research take flight at NASA's Wallop's Island Flight Facility. The project is designed to capture energy from the vibrations of the rocket during launch.
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