• Discover Top 100 Stories

    January 31, 2014

    Joshua Jacobs used to study computers, but they weren’t quite complex enough for his taste. So he moved on to examining a much more complicated instrument: the human brain.

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  • Building Collapse Commission

    January 23, 2014

    Bob Brehm came to Drexel to get away from the news cameras, but he found himself in front of them after Philadelphia's deadly Market Street building collapse in June 2013. Now he and another Drexel professor, Scott Gabriel Knowles, are stepping up to help the city in the collapse's wake.

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  • DU-CHOP-HU Symposium

    January 17, 2014

    When researchers from Drexel, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Hebrew University of Jerusalem come together next week, leaders hope the result will be new research "dream teams" that can tackle pediatric problems in new ways.

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  • Stephen Cox BEYA Honor

    January 17, 2014

    Stephen Cox believes that all students can succeed, if given the opportunity. But he's had no trouble finding people who disagree.

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  • Drexel Ventures Selects Inaugural Proof-of-Concept Projects

    January 09, 2014

    In its first round of proof-of-concept funding, Drexel Ventures — the University’s new technology accelerator and transfer enterprise — is supporting research that could lead to improved solar cells, new drug therapy for treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, safer chemicals for oil extraction and smarter software system monitoring.

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