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Drexel in the News

  • Spring Festival on Walnut Street

    Philadelphia Daily News
    May 17, 2013

    The Academy of Natural Sciences was included in a May 17 Philadelphia Daily News article for its participation in the Rittenhouse Row festival on May 18. A similar story also appeared in a May 16 Uwishunu blog post.

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  • How important is Chris Fouch?

    The Examiner
    May 17, 2013

    Senior basketball player Chris Fouch was profiled in a May 15 Examiner article for his eligibility to play a sixth season for Drexel.

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  • Drexel Students Produce and Perform Two-Man Musical Comedy GUTENBERG!, 5/30-6/1

    BroadwayWorld.com
    May 16, 2013

    Dan Toll and Justin Romeo, seniors in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, were featured in a May 16 BroadwayWorld.com article about their two-man musical spoof Gutenberg! The Musical! It’s the first time a musical and a fully student-produced show have been performed in Drexel’s new Black Box Theater in the URBN Center.

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  • Plan B Political Football Irks Ob/Gyns

    MedPage Today
    May 16, 2013

    Dr. Owen Montgomery, chair of the obstetrics and gynecology department in the College of Medicine, was quoted in a May 16 MedPage Today article about teen access to emergency contraception.

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  • 'Music Hack Day' coming to Drexel's ExCITe Center; these robots are unimpressed

    WHYY-Radio (91-FM)
    May 16, 2013

    Dr. Youngmoo Kim, an associate professor in the College of Engineering and director of the ExCITe Center, was interviewed in a May 16 WHYY-Radio (91-FM) “NewsWorks Tonight” story about the Center hosting the first Philadelphia Music Hack Day. A corresponding story was posted on Newsworks.org.  

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  • PhillyDeals: Everyone's got a point of view on tax hikes

    The Philadelphia Inquirer
    May 16, 2013

     Dr. Mark Stehr, an associate professor in the LeBow College of Business, was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article on May 16 about proposed Philadelphia tax increases on alcohol and cigarettes.

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  • Help on Wheels for Philly's Public Health 'Time Bomb,' Hepatitis C

    City Paper
    May 16, 2013

    Dr. Stacey Trooskin, an assistant professor in the College of Medicine, was quoted in a May 16 Philadelphia City Paper story about a mobile Hepatitis C testing lab that will bring testing to highest risk neighborhoods.

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  • Apply for Drexel’s Incubator Competition summer prep program

    Technically Philly
    May 15, 2013

     A May 15 Technically Philly featured Drexel’s Incubator Competition summer prep program available to Drexel graduates and current students preparing for the university’s annual Incubator Competition.

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  • Noam Chomsky, Scholars Ask NY Times Public Editor to Investigate Bias on Honduras and Venezuela

    North American Congress on Latin America
    May 15, 2013

    Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was among the dozen experts on Latin America and the media who sent a petition available on the North American Congress on Latin America’s website to Margaret Sullivan, public editor of The New York Times, condemning the paper’s biased coverage of Honduras and Venezuela. He was featured in the Chestnut Hill Local on May 15 for his upcoming reading from his new book, “We Created Chavez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution.” The book also was reviewed on SocialWorker.org on May 15.

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  • Drexel's MAD Dragon record label turns out hits, careers in music business

    WHYY/Newsworks
    May 15, 2013

    Terry Tompkins, an associate teaching professor in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and the faculty advisor for MAD Dragon Records, was quoted in a May 15 WHYY/Newsworks story about the 10th anniversary of the student-run record label.

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  • Historical Marker Placed at Original Founding Site of Academy of Natural Sciences

    KYW Newsradio (1060-AM)
    May 15, 2013

    Dr. Robert McCracken Peck, senior fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, was interviewed in a KYW Newsradio (1060-AM) story on May 15, about a new historical marker placed in Old City at the site of the Academy’s founding in 1812.

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  • Creative arts may ease cancer-related anxiety, pain

    Reuters Health
    May 15, 2013

    Dr. Joke Bradt, an associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was quoted in a Reuters Health article on May 15 about the value of creative arts for healing. The story ran in the Chicago Tribune and Yahoo! News.

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  • Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds

    The Guardian
    May 15, 2013

    Dr. Robert Brulle, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a May 15 Guardian article about climate change being mostly caused by humans.

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  • Drexel's Fouch gets NCAA clearance for sixth season

    Philadelphia Daily News
    May 15, 2013

    Senior basketball player Chris Fouch was quoted in a May 15 Philadelphia Daily News story about the NCAA approving a waiver to extend his eligibility after he suffered a season-ending injury in the third game of the 2012-13 season.

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  • Best in Class Salute

    WPVI-TV (6-abc)
    May 15, 2013

    Drexel students were featured on a May 15 WPVI-TV (6-abc) story giving advice to incoming college freshman as part of 6 ABC’s “Best in Class” program.

  • The People, Representation, and Revolutionary Culture

    Counter Punch
    May 15, 2013

    Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, published a 2012 interview he conducted with Reinaldo Iturriza, Venezuela’s New Minister of Communes, in a May 15 Counter Punch article.

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  • Drexel Culinary Students Take Over Kitchen At Le Bec Fin For A Night

    KYW.com
    May 15, 2013

    A collaboration between culinary students in the Goodwin College of Professional Studies and the French restaurant Le Bec Fin was featured on KYW Newsradio (1060-AM) and WPVI-TV (6-abc) on May 15. Culinary arts program director Jonathan Deutsch and student Noah Williams were quoted.

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  • Original Academy site to get historic marker

    Philadelphia Business Journa
    May 14, 2013

    On May 14, the Philadelphia Business Journal highlighted plans to dedicate a historic marker at the original site where the Academy of Natural Sciences was founded in 1812 as the first natural science institution in the Americas.

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  • Cicadas For Dinner? Entomologist Calls Insects ‘The Shrimp Of The Land’

    WCBS
    May 14, 2013

    Isabelle Betancourt, an entomologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, was quoted in stories about cicadas on WCBS radio in New York on May 14, and in a LiveScience article syndicated to FoxNews.com, on May 16.

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  • Student entrepreneurship: economy, costs and culture drive young startups

    Technically Philly
    May 14, 2013

    Drexel was mentioned in a May 14 Technically Philly article about student entrepreneurship for unveiling its Close School of Entrepreneurship.

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  • Mixed reaction outside Gosnell's shuttered clinic

    Philadelphia Inquirer
    May 13, 2013

    Drexel students Benjamin Pramuk, a student in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, and Vincent Farace, a student in the College of Engineering, were quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article on May 13 about reactions to the verdict in the Kermit Gosnell abortion clinic trial.

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  • [OPINION] Round The Clock Surveillance: Is This The Price Of Living In A ‘Free, Safe’ Society?

    NJToday.com
    May 13, 2013

    Dr. Rob D’Ovidio, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in an opinion piece on NJToday.com on May 13 about the tension between security and our constitutional rights. He was also interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio about teenagers, terrorism and the role of social media.

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  • Exclusive: Shootings by Philly police soar as violent crime plummets

    The Philadelphia Inquirer
    May 13, 2013

    Dr. Robert Kane, director of criminal justice in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer story on May 13 about shootings by police increasing even as violent crime decreases.

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  • Drexel launches pathology program

    Sacramento Business Journal
    May 13, 2013

    Drexel University was mentioned in a May 13 Sacramento Business Journal for its new pathology program at the Sacramento campus. Drexel Sacramento director and associate vice provost Dr. Sandra Kirschenmann was quoted.

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  • Breakroom Rule Breakers

    KTXL-SAC (FOX)
    May 13, 2013

    Dr. Sal Falletta, an associate professor and Director for the Human Resource Development Program at Drexel University Sacramento, was interviewed in a May 13 KTXL-SAC (FOX) segment on breakroom deal breakers.

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