April

Drexel Names New Computing Cluster After Historic Alumna

April 29, 2021
Picotte, the University’s high-performing computing equipment, is named for Susan La Flesche Picotte, MD, who is believed to be the first Native American physician in the U.S.
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CoAS Students Present Research at UN Commission on the Status of Women

April 26, 2021
CoAS students Liz Pham and Zyrah Alvi recently presented their research on corruption at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 2021 Forum.
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New Linguistics Minor Puts Focus on the Nature of Language

April 21, 2021
Beginning in fall 2021, undergraduate students across the University will have the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of the building blocks of language through a new minor in Linguistics. Offered by the Department of Communication, the minor offers courses that teach social and cultural aspects of communicating with people of diverse backgrounds, technical aspects of how language creates meaning, and psychological aspects of how language affects the human mind.
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2021 Global Research Symposium: International Solutions for A Global Crisis

April 20, 2021
The University’s “Climate Year: Global Research Symposium” brought together Drexel faculty and international partners to present and discuss ways of studying, addressing and combatting climate change.
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Defense Mechanisms in Aphids Can Become a Double-edged Sword, Sharpened by the Seasons

April 20, 2021
Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular Ecology a team of Drexel University scientists examined the biological variations in pea aphids, insects that reproduce frequently enough to evolve before our eyes, by tracing the prevalence of their protective endosymbiont, Hamiltonella defensa, which the insects use to ward off parasitoid wasps.
 
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Rivers in History Course Brings the Past into the Future with ArcGIS

April 19, 2021

Due to COVID-19, Associate Professor of History Debjani Bhattacharyya, PhD, re-envisioned her usually hands-on course Rivers in History, using the advanced technology of ArcGIS.

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PhD Student Luis Grande Branger Tackles Aquaman and White Supremacy in New Publication

April 15, 2021
Communication, Culture and Media (CCM) doctoral student Luis Grande Branger has an essay on "Aquaman and the American White Supremacy" forthcoming in a new collection of critical essays on the work of movie director James Wan.
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Undergraduate Research Leads to Lead Authorship in Biology Publication

April 14, 2021
Shivani Patel '20, Nicole Naranjo '18, and Kimheak Sao '16 conducted work as undergraduates in the Petrie Lab that led to a recent publication in Molecular Biology of the Cell.
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence Requires the Guidance of Sociology

April 13, 2021
In the race to out-compete other companies– artificial intelligence (AI) design is lacking a deep understanding of what data about humans mean and its relation to equity. Two Drexel University sociologists suggest we pay greater attention to the societal impact of AI, as it is appearing more frequently than ever before.
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Global Studies Students Draw Attention to International Human Rights Violations

April 12, 2021
For their senior capstone projects, Global Studies students worked with Scholars at Risk to raise awareness of human rights violations against four incarcerated or missing scholars.
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Clinical Psychology PhD Student Fareshte Erani Awarded F31 Fellowship from National Institutes of Health

April 08, 2021
Clinical Psychology PhD student Fareshte Erani was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research, which supports the research training of predoctoral students from diverse backgrounds that are underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral or clinical research workforce.
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Junior Medina Talebi Accepted to Prestigious Ralph Bunche Summer Institute

April 05, 2021
College of Arts and Sciences junior Medina Talebi has been accepted to attend the highly competitive Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI), which helps prepare undergraduate students from traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities for an academic career in political science.
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