March 31, 2015
Distinguished University and Trustee Chair Professor Yury Gogotsi has joined the International Advisory Board of Advanced Electronic Materials.
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March 29, 2015
Drexel alumnus Blake Johnson (PhD 2013, Advisor: Raj Mutharasan) has accepted a faculty position at Virginia Tech in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
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March 27, 2015
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March 25, 2015
Legions of viruses that infect the leaves of tobacco plants could be the key to making power plants safer, heating and cooling of buildings more efficient, and electronics more powerful. These tiny protein bundles, which were once a threat to a staple cash crop of the nascent United States in the 1800s, are now helping researchers like Drexel University’s Matthew McCarthy, PhD, better understand and enhance the processes of boiling and condensation.
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March 25, 2015
Legions of viruses that infect the leaves of tobacco plants could be the key to making power plants safer, heating and cooling of buildings more efficient, and electronics more powerful. These tiny protein bundles, which were once a threat to a staple cash crop of the nascent United States in the 1800s, are now helping researchers like Drexel University’s Matthew McCarthy, PhD, better understand and enhance the processes of boiling and condensation.
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March 25, 2015
On April 24 and 25, 2015, Drexel University’s Daskalakis Athletic Center pool will once again be home to more than 1000 middle and high school students competing against each other in a robotics challenge. The underwater robotics competition, known as the Greater Philadelphia SeaPerch Challenge, is an annual regional qualifying competition that sends its winners on to the National SeaPerch Competition which will take place at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in May.
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March 24, 2015
John Vergara, CBE graduate student, received an award for Best Poster from the Royal Society of Chemistry at the International Symposium on Polymer Science and Technology in Kolkata, India.
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March 23, 2015
A group of Drexel Materials students attended the TMS 2015 Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Orlando, FL to showcase the Drexel bladesmithing team’s first sword and to participate in a “Materials Bowl” trivia competition.
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March 20, 2015
Drexel’s Concrete Canoe team is making waves again this year. The team has been busy preparing for another regional competition. The annual ASCE Mid-Atlantic Concrete Canoe competition will be hosted by Penn State University, University Park on April 10 – 12, 2015.
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March 18, 2015
Fifty years ago, Pete Grice was sure he knew exactly what he wanted to do, but with the help of a co-op through Drexel, he discovered his perfect career.
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March 16, 2015
Drexel Materials Alumna Dr. Elizabeth Hoffman was named one of Drexel’s “Forty Under Forty” for 2015.
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March 12, 2015
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the following two graduate student awards:
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March 11, 2015
Drexel researchers, along with colleagues at Aix-Marseille University in France, have discovered a high performance cathode material with great promise for use in next generation lithium-sulfur batteries that could one day be used to power mobile devices and electric cars.
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March 10, 2015
For this year's third annual 40 Under 40 at Drexel University, over 200 nominations were submitted and the variety was impressive. The College of Engineering is proud to report that eight engineering alumni have made it on to this year's list.
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March 09, 2015
To fully understand how nanomaterials behave, one must also understand the atomic-scale deformation mechanisms that determine their structure and, therefore, their strength and function. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, Drexel University and Georgia Tech have engineered a new way to observe and study these mechanisms and, in doing so, have revealed an interesting phenomenon in a well-known material, tungsten.
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March 09, 2015
Engineering student Jamie Howard shares what she learned while acting in the movie "Boyhood" while she was growing up in Austin, Texas.
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March 09, 2015
To fully understand how nanomaterials behave, one must also understand the atomic-scale deformation mechanisms that determine their structure and, therefore, their strength and function. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, Drexel University and Georgia Tech have engineered a new way to observe and study these mechanisms and, in doing so, have revealed an interesting phenomenon in a well-known material, tungsten. The group is the first to observe atomic-level deformation twinning in body-centered cubic (BCC) tungsten nanocrystals.
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March 09, 2015
Drexel Materials research on capacitive yarn has been featured on the cover of Advanced Energy Materials.
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March 05, 2015
A Drexel doctorate student is leading the charge on researching conductive yarns that have the flexibility of a cotton T-shirt but the energy storage that would make the Energizer Bunny proud.
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March 04, 2015
Professor Yury Gogotsi and his research group and colleagues at Aix-Marseille University have created for the first time a 2D carbon/sulfur, C/S, nanolaminate through selectively extracting titanium (Ti) from Ti2SC MAX phase, one of a family of layered ceramics. The research team has published their results in Angewandte Chemie as a VIP paper.
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March 03, 2015
Once again Drexel Engineering hosted "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day," a free event for girls in grades 6-12. This year, we welcomed our largest group yet. The 180 girls who registered represented about 70 different schools in the Greater Philadelphia and South Jersey areas. In addition to working with the Girl Scouts of Southeastern PA, a stronger relationship with the Dornsife helped recruit girls specifically from the West Philadelphia area.
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March 02, 2015
Drexel Materials welcomes back Danielle T. Kopicko, who rejoined the staff in February 2015 as Associate Director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute.
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March 02, 2015
Jamie Howard, a senior in the electrical engineering program at Drexel’s College of Engineering, had a role in the critically acclaimed film "Boyhood," directed by Richard Linklater. The film, which takes place over the course of twelve years, is a coming-of-age drama that follows a boy’s life (played by Ellar Coltrane) from age six to eighteen. Howard played the role of the main character’s stepsister, Mindy Welbrock. "Boyhood" recently won the 2015 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture.
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