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Researchers from Drexel University’s School of Education will join peers from Ursinus College and the 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education in an effort to strengthen artificial intelligence tools that will enhance math teaching and learning. This work is part of a Gates Foundation initiative to improve math education by better supporting students. Drawing on mentoring data and insight from math educators, the team aims to improve how AI tools respond to student work. The project will also explore how AI can assist teachers in providing focused feedback that equips students to build their conceptual understanding of math over time.
For the third year in a row, the University’s position in the publication's annual “Best National Universities” list has progressed. Drexel was also included in higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo’s “Dream School: Finding the College That’s Right for You.”
A group of Drexel University students and faculty, in collaboration with Opera Philadelphia, have come up with a new way to capture the beauty of a song. They created a device that translates the pitch and volume of a singer’s performance into a work of visual art. The device will take center stage at Vox Ex Machina, Opera Philadelphia’s 50th Anniversary Gala, on Sept. 13, creating a one-of-a-kind concert experience for the audience.
Since their discovery at Drexel University in 2011, MXenes — a family of nanomaterials with unique properties of durability, conductivity and filtration, among many others — has become the largest known and fastest growing family of two-dimensional nanomaterials, with more than 50 unique MXene materials discovered to date. Experimentally synthesizing them and testing the physical properties of each material has been the labor of tens of thousands of scientists from more than 100 countries. But a recent discovery by a multi-university collaboration of researchers, led by Drexel University researcher Yury Gogotsi, PhD, and Drexel alumnus Babak Anasori, PhD, who is now an associate professor at Purdue University, that sheds light on the thermodynamics undergirding the materials’ unique structure and behavior, could be the key to supercharging this endeavor with artificial intelligence technology. The discovery was recently reported in the journal Science.
