2017 | Drexel Engineering

- A Drexel University PhD Reflects on Five Years in the Lab and on the Board
  
  June 01, 2017
  Katie Van Aken, vice president of the Graduate Student Association, turned her dissertation defense into a celebration earlier this month, and she’s currently preparing to speak at the biggest one of all for students — commencement.
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- Drexel Honors Outstanding Faculty Achievements at Year-End Awards
  
  May 25, 2017
  At the annual Faculty Recognition Awards Ceremony on May 24, Drexel acknowledged the faculty and staff members whose scholarship, service and teaching contribute so much to the University and its students.
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- 2017 Cooperative Education Awards Honor the Best of Drexel’s Co-op Program
  
  May 25, 2017
  Students, employers and faculty were celebrated at Drexel’s 2017 Cooperative Education Awards.
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- Drexel Researchers Help Provide First Glimpse of Organelles in Actions
  
  May 24, 2017
  Researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development are getting a first glimpse at the inner-workings of live cells thanks to a new microscopy technique pioneered by Nobel laureate Eric Betzig with help from engineers at Drexel University. Their method uses grids of light that activate fluorescent color tags on each type of organelle — the result is a 3-D video that gives researchers their best look at how cells function. It will allow scientists to better understand how cells react to environmental stressors and respond to drug treatment.
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- Drexel Students Try to Negotiate a Climate Change Accord
  
  May 22, 2017
  Three-dozen Drexel students role-played as global climate officials during a recent classroom exercise, working together to hash out a plan to address the changing environment. Over the course of nearly three hours of negotiations, they developed an agreement to reduce climate change and learned just how challenging such an endeavor can be.
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- A Recipe For Concrete that Can Withstand Road Salt Deterioration
  
  May 18, 2017
  Road salt, used in copious helpings each winter to protect them from ice and preserve safe driving conditions, is slowly degrading the concrete they’re made of. Engineers have known for some time that calcium chloride salt, commonly used as deicer, reacts with the calcium hydroxide in concrete to form a chemical byproduct that causes roadways to crumble. A civil engineer from Drexel University is working on a new recipe for concrete, using cast-off products from furnaces, that can hold its own against the forces of chemical erosion.
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- Study Abroad Tips From Your Drexel Classmates
  
  May 08, 2017
  What’s the most important tip for students planning to study abroad? It just might be to leave room for spontaneity, based on the advice offered by your Drexel classmates about the ins and outs and ups and downs of studying in a foreign land.
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- Drexel University’s 2017 Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients
  
  May 08, 2017
  With Drexel University’s commencement just around the corner, the University is announcing its complete list of speakers and honorary degree recipients for the 2017 ceremonies.
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- Nanomaterials Researcher Yury Gogotsi Receives $2.2M Endowed Professorship
  
  May 02, 2017
  Yury Gogotsi, PhD, the founder and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, was installed May 1 as the inaugural Charles T. and Ruth M. Bach Professor at Drexel University.
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- Emerging Graduate Scholars Show Research at First-Ever Conference
  
  May 01, 2017
  Drexel University’s first-ever Drexel Emerging Graduate Scholars Conference was recently held to give graduate students a chance to share their interdisciplinary work and test out their presentation skills.
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