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  • WINS Program Celebrates 35 Years of Opportunity

    April 27, 2018

    The Women in Natural Sciences program at the Academy of Natural Sciences introduces Philadelphia-area high school girls to STEM-focused interactive learning and careers.

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  • Joel Embiid Mask

    Protecting ‘The Process’ — What Makes Joel Embiid’s Mask So Indestructible?

    April 27, 2018

    To understand how Joel Embiid’s mask gets its durability, a doctoral researcher in the College of Engineering explains the material science behind the lightweight face protection.

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  • Award Winners

    Student Fulbright and NSF Award Winners

    April 27, 2018

    The College of Engineering is proud to announce the names of current students and recent alumni awarded prestigious national grants and fellowships, including awards from the Fulbright US Student Program Grant, and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

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  • Drexel’s Outstanding Promise Alumni: Where Are They Now?

    April 25, 2018

    Seven Drexel Materials alumni recipients of the Outstanding Promise Award share how they are enhancing Drexel’s reputation in the real world.

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  • ASME Robotics Team

    CoE Robot Takes Third Prize At ASME Competition—And It’s Cool, Too

    April 25, 2018

    A team of undergraduates designed a stackable, omni-wheeled robot, dubbed "THOR", that placed third out of 54 teams at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers student design competition held at Penn State.

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  • Alumni Awarded Tenure and Promotion

    April 24, 2018

    Drexel Materials alumni Dr. Jessica Schiffman and Dr. Aaron Sakulich have been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor at their respective universities.

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  • Drexel Joins Philadelphia's Weeklong Celebration of Science

    April 23, 2018

    Students, faculty and staff from around the University will be participating in the Philadelphia Science Festival starting this weekend. The annual celebration of science is a week full of fun and learning for all ages, culminating with a carnival on the Ben Franklin Parkway on Saturday, April 28.

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  • Materials Alum Frederick Schmidt, Jr. Wins Service to Profession Award

    April 23, 2018

    Frederick Schmidt Jr., BS Metallurgical Engineering '68, MS Materials Engineering '70, PhD '95, is the recipient of Drexel University's 2018 Service to the Profession Alumni Award

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  • Dr. Gail Rosen Co-Author of Review Paper in Interface

    April 23, 2018

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  • Dr. Ioannis Savidis Named 2018 IEEE Delaware Valley Young Engineer of the Year

    April 23, 2018

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  • Owen Mayer Earns 2017-2018 Koerner Family Award

    April 23, 2018

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  • ECE Labs Named For Dr. Edwin Gerber

    April 23, 2018

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  • CAEE Students Attend Transportation Summit in Brooklyn, NY

    April 23, 2018

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  • A Q&A With the President of Drexel’s International Graduate Student Association

    April 20, 2018

    Doctoral candidate Melvin Mathew, the president of the International Graduate Student Association, discussed how the organization welcomes international Dragons to campus.

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  • Sunpongsri MIT Grand Hack

    CBE Undergraduate, Suparit Sunpongsri, Awarded 1st Place at MIT Grand Hack 2018

    April 20, 2018

    Congratulations to Suparit Sunpongsri, CBE undergraduate student, for receiving 1st place, Grand Prize at MIT Grand Hack 2018! MIT Grand Hack 2018 is a themed competition in Global Public Health - the aim is to build "affordable and accessible solutions that will scale"!

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  • Yury Gogotsi

    Gogotsi Appointed Fellow of International Society of Electrochemistry

    April 20, 2018

    Professor Yury Gogotsi has been appointed Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry.

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  • Dr. Christopher Peters Interviewed by Philadelphia Inquirer Regarding Southwest Engine Debris

    April 20, 2018

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  • Ariana Levitt

    PhD Student Ariana Levitt Awarded 2018 Australia-Americas PhD Research Internship

    April 18, 2018

    PhD student Ariana Levitt has been selected to participate in the 2018 Australia-Americas PhD Research Internship Program of the Australian Academy of Science.

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  • Philip Weigel, Class of 2020, Named Goldwater Scholar

    April 18, 2018

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  • Haley Dervinis Wins Provost Award for Innovation in Advising

    April 18, 2018

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  • Professor Patrick Gurian Featured in Wallethub About the Greenest States in America

    April 17, 2018

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  • Four Rising CoE Faculty Stars Win 2018 NSF Career Awards

    April 16, 2018

    Leslie Lamberson, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Ioannis Savidis and Maureen Tang have received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program awards, the most prestigious science awards in support of early-career research

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  • Maddie

    CBE Sophomore, Madeleine Pelchat, Wins FMC Essay Contest

    April 13, 2018

    Madeleine’s essay titled, “Energy Conservation in the Chemical Industry”, was selected as the winner in the Excellence in Technical Writing on Sustainability and the Environment essay contest sponosored by FMC.

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  • Dr. Ioannis Savidis Granted Prestigious NSF Career Award

    April 13, 2018

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    CBE Students, Yawei Li and Adrian Mendonsa, headed to Germany for DAAD Rise Internship Program

    April 12, 2018

    Yawei Li, CBE PhD student, will travel to Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy. Adrian Mendonsa, CBE prejunior, will intern at Technische Universität Braunschweig.

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    Nicholas Trainor Receives Honorable Mention for the 2018 Goldwater Scholarship

    April 12, 2018

    Congratulations to CBE junior, Nicholas Trainor, on receiving an Honorable Mention for the 2018 Goldwater Scholarship

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  • Drexel Team Wins IEEE RFID Educational Mega Challenge: Smart Cities

    April 12, 2018

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  • Student Steel Team Invited to Compete in 2018 National Steel Bridge Competition

    April 12, 2018

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  • Maureen Tang

    Dr. Tang Receives Drexel University Career Development

    April 11, 2018

    Congratulations to Dr. Maureen Tang, CBE Assistant Professor, on receiving a Drexel University 2018-19 Career Development Award.

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  • Architectural Engineering Senior, Maria Raggousis, Awarded Chi Epsilon National Scholarship, The 2018 President's Choice Award

    April 10, 2018

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  • Faculty Highlights: Grants and Awards From Winter 2018

    April 10, 2018

    Check out what Drexel University faculty and staff accomplished during the winter term.

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  • Briefly Noted: Campus News From Winter 2018

    April 10, 2018

    Here’s a list of important dates and deadlines that Drexel faculty and professional staff should be aware of going forward.

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  • Two Materials Alumnae Named Drexel Magazine's 40 Under 40

    April 10, 2018

    Alumnae Dr. Nina Crum and Dr. Kristy Jost have been named to the 2018 Drexel Magazine 40 Under 40.

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  • Dr. Diran Apelian

    Alumnus Dr. Diran Apelian Elected Fellow of NAI

    April 09, 2018

    Alumnus Dr. Diran Apelian (BS ’68) has been elected a 2017 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

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  • Hollywood Legend M. Night Shyamalan to Address Drexel’s Class of 2018

    April 09, 2018

    Hollywood legend M. Night Shyamalan will address the class of 2018 at Drexel’s University-wide commencement ceremony on June 15 at Citizens Bank Park. The director, producer, screenwriter and actor — whose breakout hit, “The Sixth Sense,” appeared nearly 20 years ago — is known for filming and setting his movies in and around Philadelphia, hiring locally and utilizing area vendors, and showcasing some of the region’s best-loved attractions and locales.

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  • Professor Joe Martin Interviewed on Cost of Navy Yard Subway Extension

    April 06, 2018

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  • Dr. Bahram Nabet to Speak at SPIE Defense and Security Conference

    April 06, 2018

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  • Schematic of desalination using manganese oxides

    Water Desalination with Abundant and Environmentally Friendly Materials

    April 06, 2018

    Drexel Materials researchers in Anne Stevens Assistant Professor Ekaterina Pomerantseva's Materials Electrochemistry Group have recently shown that a family of inexpensive and environmentally friendly manganese oxides are effective at removing a number of different salts from solution via a process called hybrid capacitive deionization.

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