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April

  • Liberty Scholars Celebration

    April 28, 2014

    In 2010, Drexel announced a new scholarship program: the Drexel Liberty Scholars. The University began awarding 50 full-ride scholarships each year to academically talented Philadelphia high school students from low-income families. In June, 16 of those students will graduate from Drexel, the first class to do so.

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  • Drexel Engineering Lab 3D Printing Cancer Tumors

    April 24, 2014

    Drexel’s Wei Sun, PhD, Albert Soffa chair professor in the College of Engineering, has devised a method for 3D printing tumors that could soon be taking cancer research out of the petri dish.

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  • Ask the Archivist-Spring Festival

    April 23, 2014

    If you were working at Drexel 80 years ago, it would be just about time to gear up for the dance around the maypole at the annual Spring Festival.

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  • Drexel at Philadelphia Science Festival

    April 23, 2014

    The press of a button triggering a chain reaction of more than 300 energy transfers will serve as the elaborate opening to the 2014 Philadelphia Science Festival. The harbinger of this year’s week of science excitement is a Rube Goldberg machine –a complex device designed to perform a simple task- built by Drexel engineering students with the goal of setting a world record.

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  • Autism Institute Uses Custom-Outfitted Van for Outreach and Clinical Assessments

    April 21, 2014

    The A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University can’t contain its efforts within the walls of a building — so it is now hitting the road with a custom-outfitted van, called Mobile REACH, to extend autism outreach and clinical research activities into the community.

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  • Music-Driven Light Show Showcases Local Student Talent and a Smartphone App Created with Drexel

    April 21, 2014

    Remix Interactive, a live orchestral performance featuring digitally remixed music and a high-tech light show created and produced by some of Philadelphia’s most talented high school students, will take place as part of the Philadelphia Science Festival on Sunday, April 27. The event will be held at 1:30 p.m. at World Café Live (3025 Walnut St., Philadelphia).

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  • Goldwater Scholarship Twins

    April 14, 2014

    Their parents joke that they're almost "the same person." So it's only natural that the year after Rishon Benjamin won a Goldwater Scholarship, his twin brother, Alex, won one as well.

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  • Minding Your Mind

    April 07, 2014

    Drew Bergman knows that you’re wearing an invisible backpack right now. And so is the person next to you or across from you, and so are your friends and family.

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