• The Drexel Students Who Can Fix Your Fear of Public Speaking

    April 17, 2017

    Danish Dhamani and Paritosh Gupta wanted to help people uncomfortable with public speaking, so they created Orai, an app that acts as a personal speech coach. Orai is a finalist this week in two notable competitions.

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  • CDC/WHO Ebola Guidelines Could Put Sewer Workers at Risk

    April 11, 2017

    Research from Drexel University and the University of Pittsburgh suggests that guidelines for safe disposal of liquid waste from patients being treated for the Ebola virus might not go far enough to protect water treatment workers from being exposed. In a study recently published in the journal Water Environment Research, a group of environmental engineering researchers reports that sewer workers downstream of hospitals and treatment centers could contract Ebola via inhalation — a risk that is not currently accounted for in the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention or World Health Organization Ebola response protocol.

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  • New Research Labs Foster Collaboration at Drexel’s 3101 Market St.

    April 10, 2017

    Professors in the College of Engineering and the LeBow College of Business worked with architects to design a shared research laboratory space that would encourage collaboration between themselves and their students.

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  • Drexel Takes Eco Education to the Movies at Philadelphia Film Festival

    April 04, 2017

    In search of new ways to promote awareness of the realities of climate change and global warming, Drexel faculty members have struck up a relationship with the Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival. The University is sponsoring a block of local films later this month.

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