June 29, 2017
Drexel University has distinguished itself as one of the top institutions for cybersecurity education in the nation, according to the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. This month, the NSA and DHS recertified the university as Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education.
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June 28, 2017
Drexel University has distinguished itself as one of the top institutions for cybersecurity education in the nation, according to the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. This month, the NSA and DHS recertified the university as Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education. Drexel’s remains the first cybersecurity program in Philadelphia to receive this distinction and joins just over 200 programs in the nation that have earned the certification for “contributing to the protection of the National Information Infrastructure.”
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June 27, 2017
Alumna Prineha Narang (BS ‘11) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Computational Materials Science at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
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June 23, 2017
Assistant Professor Hao Cheng has been awarded an R21 grant by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to study injectable biomaterial scaffolds for inducing antigen-specific tolerance to treat autoimmune disorders.
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June 22, 2017
The department bid farewell to its graduating students at our annual commencement dinner at the University Club on Monday, June 12, 2017. Faculty, staff, and students receiving 2016-2017 departmental awards were also honored.
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June 22, 2017
The Soroush group has recently developed a novel polymer membrane for the separation of CO2 from other gases. The CO2-removal performance of the membrane is above the 2008 Robeson upper bound, which represents the performance of the best existing membranes for CO2 removal...
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June 20, 2017
Graduating PhD students Katie Van Aken (advisor: Yury Gogotsi) and Chang (Evelyn) Ren (advisor: Yury Gogotsi) are recipients of college-level graduate student excellence awards.
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June 20, 2017
The Separations Division of AIChE has selected the abstract [id: 500990], entitled “Effects of Cyanuric Chloride and its Derivatives on Gas Separation Properties of Polyurethane Membranes” by A. Arabi Shamsabadi (1), M. Sadeghi (2), M. Dinari (3), A. Ronasi (2) and M. Soroush (1) for the TED-Sep Oral Presentation Session that is sponsored by the Separations Division at the 2017 AIChE Annual Meeting.
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June 19, 2017
The National Water Research Institute (NWRI) is pleased to announce that Charles N. Haas, PhD, will receive the NWRI Athalie Richardson Irvine Clarke Prize for pioneering and applying methods to assess and minimize health risks caused by exposure to disease-causing microorganisms (referred to as pathogens) in water and waste water.
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June 15, 2017
At the College of Engineering’s annual Celebration of Engineering Design Day held June 8, 2017, a freshman design team comprised of three materials majors: Mark Petrovic, Kirsten Snodgrass, and Anna Desch, along with Jean-Luc Cassagnol and Mika Away, won Best of Freshman Design for their poster entitled “Exploring Thermal Expansion” describing their “Materials MacGyver” project.
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June 14, 2017
In an effort to limit the damage done by mass shootings, a team of Dragons drew on their military experience to design a bulletproof curtain that could help save lives.
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June 13, 2017
Anne Stevens Assistant Professor Ekaterina Pomerantseva and Distinguished University and Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Chair Professor Yury Gogotsi posit that next-generation batteries created by combining different two-dimensional (2D) materials in heterostructured electrodes can greatly improve battery life and charge storage capabilities, altering the technology landscape.
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June 12, 2017
After several senior design teams presented projects to a panel of judges, three teams were recognized at the final awards ceremony during the last stage of the Senior Design Competition on June 8, 2017 in the Bossone Research Center.
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June 09, 2017
The last in a year-long series of public lectures celebrating Drexel’s 125th anniversary brought President John Fry together with several generations of students, faculty, staff and alumni to look back at the personal experiences that define the University.
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June 01, 2017
Drexel University's first "Lives & Lessons of the Underrepresented in STEM" event was hosted on May 20 by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the College of Engineering, with the help of the National Society of Black Engineering (NSBE) and the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP).
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June 01, 2017
At this year’s Graduate Student Day, the Graduate College and the Graduate Student Association joined together to honor the work done by Drexel students in the classroom and in the community.
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June 01, 2017
Katie Van Aken, vice president of the Graduate Student Association, turned her dissertation defense into a celebration earlier this month, and she’s currently preparing to speak at the biggest one of all for students — commencement.
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