• Heard Around Campus – August

    August 29, 2016

    In this last Heard Around Campus before the start of the new academic year, take a moment to reflect on all that has been accomplished this past year and what will be celebrated in the future.

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  • A. J. Drexel Plasma Institute Renamed the C. & J. Nyheim Plasma Institute

    August 26, 2016

    Thanks to a generous donation from John and Christel Nyheim, the A. J. Drexel Plasma Institute is now known as the C. & J. Nyheim Plasma Institute.

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  • Building Drones to Dance – David Parsons’ Choreography Brings Human and Robot Inspired Dynamics to Philadelphia

    August 25, 2016

    The Federal Aviation Administration has counted nearly 325,000 registered drone operators as of Feb. 8, 2016 – although this number represents only a fraction of the unmanned aerial vehicles currently at the fingertips of humans. According to the FAA, the average drone operator owns one and a half drones, putting the number of flying robots closer to half a million…but how many of these drones will dance?

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  • A Celebrated History of Drexel Olympians and Paralympians

    August 10, 2016

    A Drexel alum is currently in Rio for his second Summer Olympics, thus becoming the most recent in a line of Drexel Dragons who have repeatedly competed in the Olympic and Paralympic games.

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  • Making a Solar Energy Breakthrough With Help From a Ferroelectrics Pioneer

    August 08, 2016

    Designers of solar cells may soon be setting their sights higher, as a discovery by a team of researchers has revealed a class of materials that could be better at converting sunlight into energy than those currently being used in solar arrays. Their research shows how a material can be used to extract power from a small portion of the sunlight spectrum with a conversion efficiency that is above its theoretical maximum — a value called the Shockley-Queisser limit. This finding, which could lead to more power-efficient solar cells, was seeded in a near-half-century old discovery by Russian physicist Vladimir M. Fridkin, PhD, a visiting professor of physics at Drexel University, who is also known as one of the innovators behind the photocopier.

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