2012 | Drexel Engineering

- Drexel Engineering Research Helps Generate Efficient Bioterrorism Response Plan
  
  March 28, 2012
  Dealing with the threat of bioterrorism is just one of the many issues facing emergency preparedness agencies in the post-Sept. 11 world. Researchers in Drexel University’s College of Engineering are helping to answer important questions that will shape the way responders handle bioterrorism threats in the future. Most recently, research from Drexel’s Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering offered findings that will advise the timing of reoccupying a building where there has been a bioterrorism attack.
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- Drexel Materials Engineers Receive Young Investigator Recognition From the Army Research Office
  
  March 28, 2012
  
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- Gogotsi Quoted on Nature News Blog About Graphene Controversy
  
  March 28, 2012
  
  Distinguished University and A. W. Grosvenor Professor Yury Gogotsi has been quoted in a March 15, 2012 story on the NatureNews Blog regarding a claim by researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and colleagues that graphene can draw on ambient thermal energy to generate electrical current
  
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- Dr. Baxter's Publication Highlighted in March 2012 AVS Newsletter
  
  March 26, 2012
  
  Dr. Jason Baxter (Assistant Professor, CBE) recently published a review article on dye sensitized solar cells that was highlighted in this month's AVS Newsletter.
  
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- Alumnus Dr. Marko Knezevic Awarded LANL Seaborg Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship
  
  March 23, 2012
  
  Alumnus Dr. Marko Knezevic (Ph.D. 2009; advisor: Surya Kalidindi) has been awarded the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Seaborg Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship.
  
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- Drexel Materials Engineers Receive Young Investigator Recognition
  
  March 22, 2012
  A pair of Drexel University engineers earned recognition from the Army Research Office’s (ARO) Physics Division for their promising research achievements within the first five years of receiving their doctoral degree. Dr. Steven May and Dr. James Rondinelli, assistant professors in Drexel’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering, have each received a three-year Young Investigator Program award to enable new research projects in materials science and engineering.
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- Image by Ph.D. Student Kristy Jost Illustrates Article in Science
  
  March 20, 2012
  
  An article that appeared in the 16 March 2012 issue of Science uses an image created by Ph.D. student Kristy Jost (advisor: Yury Gogotsi) to illustrate its point.
  
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- May and Rondinelli Receive Young Investigator Awards from Army Research Office
  
  March 19, 2012
  
  Assistant professors Steven May and James Rondinelli have each received a three-year Young Investigator Award from the Physics Division of the Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP). YIP supports the research and teaching careers of young faculty who have held Ph.D. degrees for less than five years. These two young investigator awards join two NSF-CAREER Awards already received by the young faculty of the department earlier this year.
  
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- Drexel Engineers Attend K-12 Conference to Advance STEM Education
  
  March 16, 2012
  
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- Dr. Patricia Gallagher Appointed Member of the U.S. EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology
  
  March 15, 2012
  
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