Dr. Rachel Greenstadt, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering, graduate student Andrew W.E. McDonald and undergraduate Marc Barrowclift were featured in a July 31 New Republic story about a software program they developed that can strip text of stylistic markers in order to obscure the identity of the author. In the article, the group used its program, “Anonymouth,” to alter well-known texts by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, David Foster Wallace, George Eliot and the King James Bible.
Dr. Rachel Greenstadt, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering, was quoted in a Chronicle of Higher Education article on July 29 about technology used to study linguistic style.
Drexel earned a 3.0 on the Education Department’s 2011 Financial-Health Test, which scores private universities awarded federal student aid on a scale of positive 3.0 to negative 1.0 based on financial ratios measuring net worth, operating losses, and the relationship of assets to liabilities, according to a July 23 Chronicle of Higher Education article.
Dr. Robert Brehm, an associate teaching professor in the College of Engineering, was mentioned on a July 18 WCAU-TV (NBC-10) story on a Philadelphia City Council hearing to discuss safe demolition practices in light of a building collapse at 22nd and Market Street in early June. An accompanying story ran on NBCPhiladelphia.com.
Dr. Robert Brehm, an associate teaching professor in the College of Engineering, was mentioned in a July 10 Philadelphia Inquirer article for supporting the state House Urban Affairs Committee’s proposed requirement for engineering input into demolition sites during a presentation on ways to improve demolition.