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  • 2024

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  • 2022

  • 2021

    • Drexel Joins Citywide Innovation Conversation at 2021 B.PHL Fest

      September 17, 2021

      Drexel University faculty and staff will participate in a new hybrid version of the B.PHL Innovation Fest, a citywide celebration of innovation now in its third year. From Sept. 29 – Oct. 1 the event will welcome scores of creative thinkers from around the city and across the country, including headliners CNN’s Don Lemon, Philadelphia 76ers President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey and Grammy-winning recording artist Eve.

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    • Minecraft At ExCITe Flyer

      Community Building in Minecraft

      September 16, 2021

      The ExCITe center will be hosting a Community Minecraft Buildathon as part of the Drexel Welcome week on Thursday, September 16th at 1pm, at 3401 Market St. This is an in-person event, please register for it through the DrexelOne app.

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    • STAR Scholars 2021: A “Closer to Normal” Experience Despite Ongoing Pandemic

      September 13, 2021

      One hundred and forty second- and third-year Dragons completed their faculty-mentored STAR research experience last month, and partook in a range of opportunities spanning remote, hybrid and in-person modalities, as well as six-month part-time and three-month full-time timeframes.

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  • 2020

    • Creative Conversations for a Changing World

      September 09, 2020

      Join ExCITe Center Director, Youngmoo Kim, and Play On Philly’s Program Director, Jessica Zweig, in a series of conversations about how Philadelphia is designing and implementing creative and innovative arts education programming in the virtual space. We’ll speak with organizational leaders around Philadelphia who are thinking in out of the box ways about modes of learning (virtual and otherwise), who want to share their best practice and want to have conversations about how their organizations have shifted during social distancing. What are the assumptions that we are testing?

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    • Drexel Joins Virtual B. PHL Citywide Innovation Festival

      September 04, 2020

      With a new virtual format and a focus on supporting COVID-19 recovery efforts in the Philadelphia region, the 2020 B. PHL festival &mdash; a celebration of the city&rsquo;s creative spirit &mdash; will bring together innovators for three days of talks, workshops, meet-ups and curated experiences from the city and around the world. Admission to this year&rsquo;s festival is free, with the option to make a donation to the PHL COVID-19 fund. Drexel University leadership, faculty and professional staff members, including President&nbsp;John Fry, will participate in several events during the festival, which will be held from Sept. 15-17.<br />

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    • Drexel Professor Wants to Help Us All Have a Big Talk

      August 07, 2020

      <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">There&rsquo;s a lot to talk about right now and social distancing hasn&rsquo;t made it easy to get it all out. Drexel University Professor Frank Lee, PhD, who is known for visually appealing and nostalgic architectural art installations, is hoping to provide a forum for conversation with some assistance from a seven-story building in Philadelphia.</p>

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    • ExCITe Center to Help Community Members Navigate Technology Access Challenges of Working and Learning From Home as Part of City's Digital Literacy Initiative

      June 24, 2020

      <span>Drexel University&rsquo;s&nbsp;<span style="color: #000000;">Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center</span>&nbsp;</span><span>will join a network of organizations across the city to help ensure all Philadelphians have access to the devices and internet connections they need to learn and work remotely amid the coronavirus pandemic. With support from a Philadelphia Digital Literacy Alliance initiative, Drexel will be one of three partners to provide support on accessing low cost Internet options, connecting wireless devices, and providing computers to ensure access to internet service for community members in need.</span>

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  • 2019

  • 2018

  • 2017

    • Drexel to Host Pennsylvania's Center For Advanced Fabric Manufacturing Innovation

      November 14, 2017

      The Department of Defense’s effort to bring America to the forefront of textile technology manufacturing and innovation is gaining a strategic foothold in the region. Drexel University, in collaboration with DoD-supported Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), is establishing a statewide center that will help companies, entrepreneurs and innovators take their advanced-textile concepts from prototype to product and prepare America’s workforce for the quality jobs this growing sector is generating. Called the “Pennsylvania Fabric Discovery Center,” this statewide resource is the first hub located outside of AFFOA’s home state of Massachusetts. It will be part of a national network intended to lower the barrier to commercialization for functional fabrics, resulting in advanced textiles that do things like see, hear, sense, communicate, generate and store energy.

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    • Young Dragons Take Flight With an Eagle at 'STEAM' Camp

      July 26, 2017

      On the final day of the two-week, STEAM-focused section of a Drexel-run summer camp, a group of Young Dragons took to the Philadelphia Eagles’ weight room and practice fields to learn what goes into making their favorite team soar.

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    • Learning-Innovation-Speaker-Series

      January 20, 2017

      The University’s new initiative aims to find the technologies and methods fueling creative approaches to education. It will feature a series of conversations on learning, a national survey of innovative spaces and pilot programs to put ideas into practice.

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  • 2016

    • Building Drones to Dance – David Parsons’ Choreography Brings Human and Robot Inspired Dynamics to Philadelphia

      August 25, 2016

      The Federal Aviation Administration has counted nearly 325,000 registered drone operators as of Feb. 8, 2016 – although this number represents only a fraction of the unmanned aerial vehicles currently at the fingertips of humans. According to the FAA, the average drone operator owns one and a half drones, putting the number of flying robots closer to half a million…but how many of these drones will dance?

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    • Find any Museum in America with New MuseumStat Website and App

      August 16, 2016

      There are over 30,000 museums across the United States – and now you can learn about each one, with the online resource MuseumStat, a powerful tool to better understand museums and their role in our communities. For those with wanderlust and a zeal for travel, the associated iOS app, MuseumFinder, will reveal what museums may be just around the corner through its location-based GPS search.

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    • Save Mario With 24 Hours of Impact

      May 09, 2016

      Our beloved mascot is missing! Here's how you can be a part of Drexel's first Day of Giving, become an agent of C.I.A. (Central Institutional Advancement), receive secret messages and help rescue Mario.

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    • Drexel Brings National Network for Advanced Functional Fabrics Manufacturing to Philadelphia

      April 01, 2016

      The U.S. Department of Defense has tapped Drexel University as a key leader in the creation of a $75 million national research institute that will support American textile manufacturers in bringing sophisticated new materials and textiles to the marketplace. The institute, called Advanced Functional Fabrics of America, will be a national manufacturing resource center for industry and government to draw on academic expertise in new fibers and textiles. The result will be fabrics engineered to see, hear, sense and communicate; serving an array of industries including aerospace, apparel, architecture and health.

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    • Drexel Brings National Network for Advanced Functional Fabrics Manufacturing to Philadelphia

      April 01, 2016

      The U.S. Department of Defense has tapped Drexel University as a key leader in the creation of a $75 million national research institute that will support American textile manufacturers in bringing sophisticated new materials and textiles to the marketplace. The institute, called Advanced Functional Fabrics of America, will be a national manufacturing resource center for industry and government to draw on academic expertise in new fibers and textiles. The result will be fabrics engineered to see, hear, sense and communicate; serving an array of industries including aerospace, apparel, architecture and health.

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    • Drexel and Coventry University to Host Workshop on Serious Games For Health Care

      March 16, 2016

      A gathering of international researchers, developers, professors, entrepreneurs and physicians will convene at Drexel University’s Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center at the end of March to have a discussion about video games and how they can help improve people’s health, aid the healing process and guide caregivers.

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    • No Easy Questions for Anita Sarkeesian at the ExCITe Center

      March 02, 2016

      Media critic Anita Sarkeesian, known for her Feminist Frequency video series “Tropes vs Women” and “Video Games vs Women,” answered student-submitted questions about her beginnings, the state of the video game industry today and what she sees for the future.

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    • A Cappella for Academics: The TONICs Join Drexel’s TrebleMakers at the Academy

      February 29, 2016

      Celebrate 25 years of a cappella with colleagues from the Academy of Natural Sciences and the ExCITe Center at a special concert on March 5.

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    • Video Game Therapy — Drexel Professors Design Games For Cerebral Palsy Patients

      February 22, 2016

      While video games have often been saddled with the reputation of promoting a sedentary lifestyle, a group of Drexel University professors see the digital diversions as a way of helping patients with cerebral palsy to keep on moving. The team, with expertise ranging from game design to movement science, physical therapy and biomedical engineering, recently formed a company called enAble Games, with the goal of making web-based active video games that can be used as part of therapy or rehabilitation exercise sessions.

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    • Q & A with Anita Sarkeesian

      February 19, 2016

      ExCITe was honored to co-host an informal Q & A with the feminist media critic, alongside Temple Libraries and the Entrepreneurial Game Studio.

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    • STEAM Education Workshop

      February 15, 2016

      The second annual STEAM Education Workshop took place on February 15th, 2016 at the ExCITe Center.

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    • EGS Receives Intel Grant

      February 03, 2016

      After receiving a generous gift from Intel, the EGS plans on holding a series of Game Design and Creative Code workshops for middle and high school students.  The workshops will encourage children to explore STEAM fields and promote an interest in computing and game design.

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    • Drexel and Penn Create Free Online Course With Opera Philadelphia

      January 25, 2016

      In its ongoing mission to broaden its audience and bolster its patrons’ enjoyment, Opera Philadelphia is rolling out an online course in the lead-up to its next major production. Experts from Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania created the framework and curriculum as a primer for Opera Philadelphia’s east coast premiere of Jennifer Higdon and Gene Scheer’s Cold Mountain, which opens on Feb. 5 at the Academy of Music.

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    • Drexel to Bring 'War of the Worlds' Interactive Art Experience to Philadelphia With Support From William Penn Foundation

      January 11, 2016

      “The War of the Worlds,” H.G. Wells’s classic work of science fiction literature has inspired the creation of feature films, radio dramas, comic books, music and even the rockets that put a man on the moon. Now the seminal tale of alien invasion is the vision guiding the development of a citywide interactive game and performance project in Philadelphia.

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  • 2015

    • Philadelphia Students to Design Skyscraper-Size Video Games

      December 09, 2015

      Starting this winter, more than 100 middle-school students from Philadelphia schools and community groups will try their hand at being video game designers, with an opportunity to play their games on one of the biggest screens imaginable: a 29-story building covered with LEDs. Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio is working with young game designers-in-the-making to come up with new games for Brandywine Realty Trust’s Cira Centre office building, an edifice that has twice played host to the largest architectural video game display in the world.

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    • Faculty Fellowship

      September 21, 2015

      The ExCITe Faculty Fellowship is an opportunity for faculty to receive financial support to allow for long-term (a year minimum) engagement and housing within the ExCITe Center.

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    • #PhillyLovesRobots

      August 06, 2015

      Join ExCITe roboticist, The Hacktory and participants from around Philadelphia for a project night around robotics. Tonight, Thursday August 6, 6-9pm at 3401 Market Street, Suite 100

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    • Idea to App Store

      June 29, 2015

      On June 29th, 2015, the Drexel App Lab held an Idea to App Store Workshop, a collaborative program in which attendees had the chance to learn about the overall process of taking an app idea from concept to deployment.

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    • Drexel Joins Philadelphia Science Festival's Weeklong Celebration of Science and Technology

      April 22, 2015

      Students, faculty and staff from Drexel University will help make the fifth anniversary of the Philadelphia Science Festival one of the biggest citywide celebrations to date. More than 200 regional partner organizations from museums to cultural centers and educational institutions will present over 100 events across the city during the nine-day celebration intended to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers.

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    • Holding Energy By The Threads: Drexel Researchers Spin Cotton Into Capacitive Yarn

      March 05, 2015

      A Drexel doctorate student is leading the charge on researching conductive yarns that have the flexibility of a cotton T-shirt but the energy storage that would make the Energizer Bunny proud.

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    • Drexel and TechGirlz to Create Online Game Design Class For Teens

      February 18, 2015

      “Our hope is that these workshops will empower and educate young women who are eager to learn and become interested in the game industry,” said Tracey Welson Rossman, founder of TechGirlz.

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    • ExCITe announces The STEAM Education Workshop

      February 16, 2015

      The ExCITe Center will be holding a STEAM education workshop on Monday, February 16th.

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    • Drexel Hosts, Wins Hardware Hackathon

      January 21, 2015

      Hosting a hackathon that utilized hardware instead of the usual software, a Drexel team using innovative controls for a drone rose above the rest.

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  • 2014

    • War of the Worlds: Philadelphia

      December 22, 2014

      The next act for the professor who put Pong and Tetris on Brandywine Realty Trust’s 29-story Cira Centre office building could be a city-wide alien invasion of Philadelphia.

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    • ExCITe Celebrates National Computer Science Education Week

      December 08, 2014

      The ExCITe Center will be hosting several events to celebrate this year's National Computer Science Education Week. 

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    • Drexel's Entrepreneurial Game Studio Gets Boost From State Economic Development Grant

      November 20, 2014

      Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio (EGS) is on its way to becoming a proving ground for enterprising young game developers. As part of a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, the studio, which was founded about two years ago by Frank Lee, PhD, an associate professor in Westphal College, will take the next step toward becoming an educational business incubator for undergraduate students pursuing careers in game design.

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    • How to Write True Stories about Science and Society: The ‘Godfather of Creative Nonfiction’ Joins Drexel for Workshop

      October 23, 2014

      Lee Gutkind, “the ‘Godfather’ behind creative nonfiction” (Vanity Fair), will join Drexel University on Monday, Nov. 3 from 2 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. for a workshop and discussion to help faculty, students and other scholars, researchers and academics learn how to write about their research for a broad audience. The event aims to help those who have a passion to share their knowledge outside of the classroom, laboratory or institution to communicate their ideas to the public to advance knowledge and create new dialogue.

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    • LiveNote App To Premiere at Philadelphia Orchestra

      October 03, 2014

      The Philadelphia Orchestra will be debuting its mobile application, LiveNote, this fall.

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    • LiveNote

      October 02, 2014

      The Philadelphia Orchestra, in collaboration with engineers from Drexel University’s Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center, is launching a mobile app that will change the way audiences experience musical performances.

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    • Dion Named Scientist of the Year

      August 18, 2014

      Drexel University’s Genevieve Dion, an associate professor in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, was named “Scientist of the Year” at the 2014 Philadelphia Geek Awards in recognition of her groundbreaking work in developing wearable technology.

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    • Drexel Faculty, Students Among 2014 Philly Geek Awards Nominees

      July 07, 2014

      The annual Philadelphia Geek Awards have once again recognized the work of Drexel University’s faculty and students as some of the best examples of the city’s vibrant geek community over the past year.

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    • Cira Tetris Game Sets Guinness World Record

      June 24, 2014

      Drexels Frank Lee has officially outdone himself. The man behind this spring’s giant game of "Tetris" — played on the north and south sides of Brandywine Realty Trust’s Cira Centre skyscraper — replaced his own name in the Guinness World Records ledger as the creator of the world’s “largest architectural videogame display.”

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    • Jazz Musicologist Tad Shull to Speak at ExCITe

      June 09, 2014

      The ExCITe Center is pleased to welcome jazz musicologist Tad Shull on Monday, June 9.

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    • National Day of Civic Hacking 2014

      May 31, 2014

      This May, the ExCITe Center will be the proud host of the National Day of Civic Hacking

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    • Drexel Researchers Develop Smart Fabric Belly Band

      May 19, 2014

      Tummy snugging maternity wear could soon be giving expecting parents peace of mind in addition to stylishly securing waistlines. Researchers at Drexel University are combining fashion design with wireless technology to produce a belly band that will be able to monitor uterine contractions and fetal heart rate in real time.

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    • Composer Pauline Oliveros to Visit ExCITe

      May 05, 2014

      The ExCITe Center and Drexel University's Department of Music welcome modern composer Pauline Oliveros on May 5th.

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    • ExCITe Events at Philly Science Festival 2014

      April 25, 2014

      The ExCITe Center is proud to present two events at this year's Philly Science Festival on Sunday, April 27.

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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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    • 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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    • Innovation Center @3401

      April 09, 2014

      Philadelphia’s newest shared workspace, the Innovation Center @3401, is accepting applications from tech startups and individuals who need office space and can benefit from a collaborative atmosphere.

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    • Drexel Professor Puts Giant Game of Tetris on Cira Centre

      March 11, 2014

      In a follow-up to the world record-setting game of 'Pong' that kicked off Philly Tech Week in historic fashion last year, Drexel’s Frank Lee, PhD, founder of Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio, is planning an even bigger feat of video game hacking for the opening of this year’s celebration on April 4.

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    • Philadelphia Science Festival Rube Goldberg Kick Off

      March 06, 2014

      What does a machine with more than 400 steps look like? You can find out during the Philadelphia Science Festival.

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    • "Wearable Power" Wins NSF Awards

      February 13, 2014

      Kristy Jost, of the Shima Lab, earned first place in the Posters & Graphics category--as well as the People's Choice award--in the NSF's International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for her entry, "Wearable Power."

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    • NSF vizualization challenge

      February 06, 2014

      The team of Drexel University engineers who came up with a way to knit an energy storage device have now been recognized by the National Science Foundation for their skill in showing how they did it.

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    • Global Game Jam '14

      January 26, 2014

      For a full 48 hours, from January 24th-26th, members of Drexel's International Game Developers Association hosted their own Global Game Jam. 17 students and Philadelphia locals came together over the weekend to develop games based on this year's theme: "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

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    • Drexel Opens New App Development Lab with Gift from Bentley Systems

      January 07, 2014

      While many college students are attached to their smartphones, students at Drexel University are just as likely to be spending their screen time programming the next great app. Drexel students have already launched apps that help users explore museums, find scholarships or get involved on campus. Now, thanks to a generous gift from Bentley Systems, the University has established a dedicated space for app development.

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  • 2013

    • 3401 Market Innovation Hub

      December 11, 2013

      Drexel University, the University City Science Center and DreamIt Ventures are on a mission to support innovators and entrepreneurs in the Philadelphia region and have formed a strategic partnership that creates a hub for start-ups to test their wings and the capital that will support their continued growth.

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    • Pong on Cira Centre Named Guinness World Record

      November 18, 2013

      The dream of Drexel associate professor Frank Lee, PhD, that came to fruition in the form of a 29-story video game — Pong — played on the north facade of Brandywine Realty Tusts’s Cira Centre is now a world record. Guinness World Records officially recognized the event, which was held on April 19 and 24 as part of Philly Tech Week, as the “largest architectural videogame display.”

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    • CityAge

      November 18, 2013

      What will Philadelphia look like in 30 years, and what role will Drexel play in its transformation? President John Fry and Mayor Michael Nutter addressed these questions at last week's CityAge gathering at Drexel.

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    • CityAge

      October 29, 2013

      What will cities look like in the future? Who will live in them? How will people travel between them? These are just some of the questions facing politicians, investors and innovators – people who have the power, motivation and vision to shape their answers. Hundreds of these visionaries and decision-makers will come together at Drexel University’s Behrakis Grand Hall on Nov. 13-14 to continue a dialogue about “the New American City.”

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    • Isomer Musical Metacreation

      August 21, 2013

      Over the summer, Dr. Wilder and I [Jamie Leidwinger] have set up camp in Drexel University’s Expressive and Creative Interactive Technologies (ExCITe) Center in Philadelphia to work on the Isomer Project: a digital humanities research project aimed at teaching computers to listen to music sensitively. Our goals for the summer are to develop both quantitative and qualitative aspects to Isomer’s ability to listen and identify descriptors for music.

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    • Touchkeys Kickstarter

      August 01, 2013

      Dr. Andrew McPherson (inventor of the Magnetic Resonator Piano), has launched a successful Kickstarter project for TouchKeys, sensors for musical keyboards that turn every key into a touchpad controller. Andrew began work on the TouchKeys project during his post-doctoral fellowship at Drexel in the Music & Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab) as part of our efforts to enhance the expressive capabilities of musical instruments.

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    • Reimagining Learning in Philly

      July 18, 2013

      During it's seventh year, the cost-free music technology program for high school students called Summer Music Technology ran for the first time at the ExCITe Center. Over the week, students learned about the science and technology behind digital music; and this year, a visitor from the U.S. Department of Education came by to observe the program.

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    • 2013 Seed Project Proposals

      May 20, 2013

      The ExCITe Center announces a new call for novel, highly multi-disciplinary research projects providing the opportunity to develop concepts that may be difficult to support through traditional channels.

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    • The Hubos Come Together

      May 13, 2013

      Check out the Hubos performing their cover of The Beatles classic "Come Together."

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    • Knight Arts Challenge

      April 29, 2013

      Drexel University’s Expressive & Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center is taking a step forward in efforts at the intersection of the arts, technology and science thanks to a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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    • International Space Apps Challenge

      April 21, 2013

      Organized by Azavea and presented by NASA, the International Space Apps Challenge is a two-day hackathon (April 20-21, 2013) where citizens from around the world work together to solve current challenges relevant to both space exploration and social needs. In Philly judges were Franklin Institute Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts, NASA Deputy CIO Deborah Diaz, and City of Philadelphia Chief Data Officer Mark Headd, who awarded prizes at the end of the event.

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    • Pong Over Philly

      April 19, 2013

      The video game that started them all will come to life on Philadelphia’s largest array of LEDs in a visual spectacle that is sure to inspire wonder while plucking at the heartstrings of nostalgic video gamers throughout the city.

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    • QandA-Youngmoo Kim Science of Jazz

      April 15, 2013

      One must-see highlight of this year's Philadelphia Science Festival is Drexel’s “Science of Jazz,” a next-generation jazz concert the evening of April 23 in the Mandell Theater. DrexelNow spoke with Dr. Youngmoo Kim, director of the ExCITe Center, to find out learn more about this uniquely Drexel event and why it’s one to add to your to-do list for the festival.

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    • Nature Speaks with Genevieve Dion

      April 11, 2013

      Genevieve Dion works at textile engineering's cutting edge at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ahead of the Smart Fabrics conference in San Francisco, California, she talks about knitting robots, permanently pleating silk and charging mobile phones from shirts.

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    • WHYY Friday Arts

      April 05, 2013

      Friday Arts is a 30-minute arts, culture and entertainment magazine produced by WHYY-TV that features three segments: "Art," "Art of Life" and "Art of Food." Friday Arts casts a light on some of Philadelphia's best-kept secrets in the arts. In April's episode, which aired Friday April 5th, Drexel's ExCITe Center was featured, along with Mary Wilson: Come See About Me and The Perfect Brew.

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    • The Science of Music

      February 11, 2013

      The Philadelphia Science Festival hosted a unique jazz concert held in the Bossone Research Center’s Mitchell Auditorium. This event allowed the audience to experience the science behind the music via an interactive smartphone app, as well as insight into the powerful connection music has in the structure and function of the brain presented by Dr. Aniruddh Patel, Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology from the Neurosciences Institute.

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  • 2012

    • ExCITe Center Opens

      November 28, 2012

      The center occupies more than 11,000 square-feet of converted industrial office space at the University City Science Center’s 3401 Market Street building.

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    • ExCITe Center Space Opens

      November 26, 2012

      Anchored by research teams from Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, the College of Engineering, and the iSchool-College of Information Science and Technology, the ExCITe Center represents a step forward in the ambitious plans of Drexel and its partners in the community to develop an “Innovation Neighborhood” in University City and West Philadelphia. The flexible space for the highly collaborative work housed within the University City Science Center building at 34th and Market streets, was designed by local firm UJMN Architects + Designers.

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    • What Im Reading Youngmoo Kim

      September 19, 2012

      Drexel's Dr. Youngmoo Kim took the time to chat with DrexelNow about his current reading choice, The Rise of the Creative Class—Revisited (second edition) by Richard Florida.

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    • Ignite Philly 10

      September 12, 2012

      Dr. Youngmoo Kim presented at Ignite Philly 10. Speaking about the ExCITe Center in their beloved short format, he touched on The Hubos and the MRP, as well as the other great work of our partners.

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    • Scientist of the Year

      August 22, 2012

      Dr. Youngmoo Kim, director for the ExCITe Center, associate professor of electrical & computer engineering, and assistant dean of engineering for media technologies, was among the many members of Philadelphia’s vibrant geek community on the red carpet at the Academy of Natural Sciences for Philadelphia’s Geek Awards on August 17th.

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    • Seed Funded Research Projects

      June 01, 2012

      The first three seed funded research projects were announced on June 1, 2012. The awarded projects were: "Virtual Opera," "Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Gaming," and "Sonic City."

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    • Science Night at the Ballpark

      April 28, 2012

      Many attended Science Night at the Ballpark and cheered on the Phillies as they took on the Chicago Cubs all while learning about the science of sports.

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