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March 25, 2015
Legions of viruses that infect the leaves of tobacco plants could be the key to making power plants safer, heating and cooling of buildings more efficient, and electronics more powerful. These tiny protein bundles, which were once a threat to a staple cash crop of the nascent United States in the 1800s, are now helping researchers like Drexel University’s Matthew McCarthy, PhD, better understand and enhance the processes of boiling and condensation.
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March 25, 2015
On April 24 and 25, 2015, Drexel University’s Daskalakis Athletic Center pool will once again be home to more than 1000 middle and high school students competing against each other in a robotics challenge. The underwater robotics competition, known as the Greater Philadelphia SeaPerch Challenge, is an annual regional qualifying competition that sends its winners on to the National SeaPerch Competition which will take place at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in May.
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March 24, 2015
John Vergara, CBE graduate student, received an award for Best Poster from the Royal Society of Chemistry at the International Symposium on Polymer Science and Technology in Kolkata, India.
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March 23, 2015
A group of Drexel Materials students attended the TMS 2015 Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Orlando, FL to showcase the Drexel bladesmithing team’s first sword and to participate in a “Materials Bowl” trivia competition.
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March 20, 2015
Drexel’s Concrete Canoe team is making waves again this year. The team has been busy preparing for another regional competition. The annual ASCE Mid-Atlantic Concrete Canoe competition will be hosted by Penn State University, University Park on April 10 – 12, 2015.
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March 18, 2015
Fifty years ago, Pete Grice was sure he knew exactly what he wanted to do, but with the help of a co-op through Drexel, he discovered his perfect career.
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March 16, 2015
Drexel Materials Alumna Dr. Elizabeth Hoffman was named one of Drexel’s “Forty Under Forty” for 2015.
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March 12, 2015
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the following two graduate student awards:
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March 11, 2015
Drexel researchers, along with colleagues at Aix-Marseille University in France, have discovered a high performance cathode material with great promise for use in next generation lithium-sulfur batteries that could one day be used to power mobile devices and electric cars.
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March 10, 2015
For this year's third annual 40 Under 40 at Drexel University, over 200 nominations were submitted and the variety was impressive. The College of Engineering is proud to report that eight engineering alumni have made it on to this year's list.
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