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June 30, 2017
Girija Kaimal, EdD, an assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was quoted in a June 30 story in Vice's Tonic about her study that showed making art can activate the brain’s reward pathway.
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June 30, 2017
A study that showed clean hands may not be enough to prevent the spread of MRSA in hospital NICUS by Neal Goldstein, PhD, an assistant research professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was covered in Politico New York June 30. Goldstein was also quoted about the study in a June 30 Becker’s Hospital Review story.
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June 30, 2017
Girija Kaimal, EdD, an assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was quoted in a June 30 story in Vice's Tonic about her study that showed making art can activate the brain’s reward pathway.
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June 30, 2017
A study that showed clean hands may not be enough to prevent the spread of MRSA in hospital NICUS by Neal Goldstein, PhD, an assistant research professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was covered in Politico New York June 30. Goldstein was also quoted about the study in a June 30 Becker’s Hospital Review story.
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June 29, 2017
Allan B. Schwartz, MD, a professor in the College of Medicine, authored a June 29 “medical mystery” piece for The Philadelphia Inquirer about how Calvin Coolidge’s depression may have contributed to his cardiovascular issues later in life.
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June 29, 2017
Neal Goldstein, PhD, assistant research professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a June 29 Philly Voice article about his study that found that even perfect hand hygiene in hospitals can’t stop the spread of MRSA among NICU babies.
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June 29, 2017
Danish Dhamani, an undergraduate in the College of Engineering, and Parish Gupta, an undergraduate in the College of Computing & Informatics, were featured in a June 29 NBC News story about their speech coaching app called Orai.
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June 29, 2017
Allan B. Schwartz, MD, a professor in the College of Medicine, authored a June 29 “medical mystery” piece for The Philadelphia Inquirer about how Calvin Coolidge’s depression may have contributed to his cardiovascular issues later in life.
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June 29, 2017
Phillip Ayoub, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences authored an article on June 29 for The Washington Post's "monkey cage" feature in regards to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent support of a conscience vote in regards to marriage equality.
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June 28, 2017
Ryan Offer, MD, an assistant professor in the College of Medicine, was interviewed June 28 during a WTXF-TV (FOX-29) “Good Day Philadelphia” segment about how expecting mothers can track fetal movements during pregnancy.
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June 27, 2017
A study about the motor cortex led by Ilya A. Rybak, PhD, a professor in the College of Medicine, was featured in a June 27 post by Evolution News & Science Today.
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June 27, 2017
Jordan Hyatt, Phd, JD, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences was quoted in a June 27 Philadelphia Inquirer article about Pennsylvania's "swift and certain" parole punishment approach.
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June 27, 2017
Drexel and its partnership in the Schyulkill Yards development project was mentioned in a June 27Plan Philly story about Brandywine Realty Trust and Penn Medicine creating new programs that will recruit workers from their local communities.
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June 27, 2017
Drexel's partnership with Brandywine Realty in the Schuylkill Yards development project was featured in a June 27 Philly Voice story about their commitment to provide funds for affordable housing in West Philadelphia as part of the project.
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June 27, 2017
Drexel was mentioned in a June 27 Curbed Philly story about Brandywine Realty Trust committing $5.6 million into West Philadelphia neighborhoods through an initiative that is part of the Schuylkill Yards development project.
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June 27, 2017
Drexel was featured in a June 27 WPVI-TV (6-abc) news segment about Saxbys opening a second café on campus today, which will be operated exclusively by students.
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June 26, 2017
Samuel Cook, a third-year medical student in the College of Medicine, was mentioned in a June 26 Huffington Post piece written by his mother about raising successful black men.
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June 26, 2017
Lisa A. Tucker, JD, associate professor in the Kline School of Law, was quoted in a June 26 KYW Newsradio 1060 article in regards to the rumors over whether Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will step down.
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June 26, 2017
William Rosenberg, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in June 26 KYW-TV (CBS-3)/KYW Newsradio (1060-AM) story in regards to the Supreme Court ruling on President Trump’s travel ban. Rosenberg was also interviewed on June 19 on a Sirius XM Radio’s “POTUS 124” broadcast to analyze the Trump Investigations and other national issues.
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June 26, 2017
Robert Field, PhD, JD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health and the Kline School of Law, was interviewed in a June 26 news segments on My PHL-17 and WPVI-TV (6-abc) about the implications of the GOP Senate bill on health care.
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June 26, 2017
A study about how art activates the brain’s reward pathway by Girija Kaimal, EdD, an assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was featured in June 26 CBS Local and KYW-Newsradio (1060 AM) stories.
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June 26, 2017
Rob D’Ovidio, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed for a KYW-TV (CBS-3) news segment about the safety concerns surrounding Snapchat’s new “Snap maps” feature.
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June 26, 2017
Paul Furtaw, PsyD, an associate director of counseling services, was interviewed for a June 26 KYW-Newsradio (1060-AM) story about Drexel’s “Adulting is Hard” campaign, aimed at letting students know that it’s okay to fail.
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June 26, 2017
M. Brian Blake, PhD, executive vice president of Academic Affairs and provost, was featured in a June 26 Philadelphia Inquirer story highlighting the fact that Penn, Temple and Drexel all now have black provosts in their administration.
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June 23, 2017
Jason Orne, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a June 23 Daily Dot story about social desirability bias within gay dating apps.
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June 23, 2017
Barry Furrow, JD, a professor and director of Drexel's health law program in the Kline School of Law, was quoted in a June 23 WPVI-TV (6-abc) news segment about the Senate Republican health bill, elaborating on how and whom it will effect.
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June 23, 2017
Robert Field, PhD, JD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health and the Kline School of Law, was interviewed for a June 23 WCAU-PHI (NBC 10) segment on the new health care bill crafted by GOP Republicans. He was also interviewed on the "Knowledge@Wharton" Sirius XM radio program on the opioid epidemic in the United States.
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June 23, 2017
Richard Frankel, JD, an associate professor in the Kline School of Law, was quoted in a June 23 Philadelphia Inquirer article about local addiction treatment centers that have been illicitly re-routed to facilities in Florida.
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June 23, 2017
Paul Harrington, a professor in the School of Education and director of the Center for Labor Markets and Policy, was quoted in a June 23 Associated Press story about how more teenagers are choosing summer school over jobs. Harrington’s research was also featured in a June 22 CNBC article.
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June 23, 2017
Evan Forman, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a June 23 U.S. News & World Report slideshow about how “accepting displeasure” when trying to lose weight could be effective.
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June 22, 2017
The first phase of Drexel and Brandywine Realty Trust's Schuylkill Yards development project was mentioned in a June 22 Philadelphia Inquirer story as one of several proposals that were approved by City Council this week.
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June 22, 2017
Daniel R. Taylor, DO, an associate professor in the College of Medicine, authored a June 22 opinion piece for The Philadelphia Inquirer about the White House's 2018 budget proposal and how its proposed reductions in programs could affect his patients' access to housing, food, education and health care.
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June 21, 2017
Paul Harrington, a professor in the School of Education and director of the Center for Labor Markets and Policy, was quoted in a June 21 USA Today story about how more teenagers are choosing summer school over jobs.
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June 21, 2017
Paul Harrington, a professor and director of the Center for Labor Markets and Policy in the School of Education, was quoted in a June 21 USA Today article about Amazon's Whole Foods purchase and how Whole Foods' lack of unions is one of the things that made the chain an attractive purchase.
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June 20, 2017
Robert Field, PhD, JD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health and Kline School of Law, authored a post for his blog on Philly.com June 20 that discussed whether health care in the United States is the most expensive in the world.
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June 20, 2017
Ryan McKenna, PhD, an assistant professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was mentioned in a June 20 Radio Bilingüe story on his study that found that the Affordable Care Act helped Latinos with hypertension get better access to care.
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June 20, 2017
Girija Kaimal, EdD, an assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was quoted in a June 19 Daily Mail story about her study into how art-making activates the reward pathways of the brain. She was also quoted in a June 20 Yahoo Style article covering her study, and mentioned in a Spirituality & Health magazine article on it. Additionally, the study was featured in a June 20 KSTU-SLC (FOX 13, Salt Lake City) segment.
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June 20, 2017
Mark Sabaj, PhD, interim curator of Ichthyology in the Academy of Natural Sciences, was the focus of a June 20 Philadelphia Inquirer feature on a new catfish that he named in honor of his daughter.
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June 20, 2017
Yi Deng, PhD, dean of the College of Computing & Informatics, was quoted in a June 20 Philadelphia Business Journal story about the city ranking among the top 10 in computer programming talent, according to a report from the commercial real estate firm JLL.
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June 20, 2017
Danish Dhamani, an undergraduate in the College of Engineering, and Parish Gupta, an undergraduate in the College of Computing & Informatics, were featured in a June 20 Fast Company story about their speech coaching app called Orai.
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June 20, 2017
Alissa Morss Clyne, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Engineering and faculty advisor of Drexel’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, was quoted in a story about the trend of more women pursuing degrees in biomedical engineering that ran in the May/June edition of IEEE Pulse.
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June 19, 2017
Alex Geisinger, JD, a professor in the Kline School of Law, was quoted in a June 19 Huffington Post article about disappearing consumer rights and the many sets of regulation repeals across various industries.
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June 19, 2017
Stephen Gambescia, PhD, clinical professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, wrote a letter to the editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer June 19 about the importance of the state legislature allowing for local government to have its own provisions, citing the state recently pre-empting local rules limiting plastic bag use.
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June 19, 2017
Ryan McKenna, PhD, an assistant professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a June 19 NBC News story that covered his study on the benefits the Affordable Care Act had for Mexican-Americans with hypertension.
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June 17, 2017
A Philadelphia Inquirer story about Fred Mullison, fossil preparator at the Academy of Natural Sciences, has been picked up by multiple media outlets, including the website of WCAU-TV (NBC-10) June 19 and the New Jersey Herald June 17.
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June 16, 2017
Paul Nyirjesy, MD, a professor in the College of Medicine, was quoted in a June 16 Prevention story about common household products that can soothe vaginal itching.
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June 16, 2017
Ryan McKenna, PhD, an assistant professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a June 16 UPI story on his study on how the Affordable Care Act benefitted Mexican-Americans with hypertension.
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June 16, 2017
Drexel was mentioned in a June 16 Philadelphia Inquirer story about Paul Robeson High School, which has partnered with the University to offer high school students the opportunity to take science classes on campus.
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June 15, 2017
Ellen Staurowsky, EdD, a professor in the Center for Hospitality and Sport Management, was quoted in a June 15 Portland Business Journal story about the ethical implications of Nike funding junkets for athletics directors to tour their manufacturing facilities in Southeast Asia.
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June 14, 2017
Rita LaRue, vice president of campus services, was quoted in a June 14 Bisnow story about private student housing developers, like American Campus Communities, which operates and markets three buildings on campus.
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June 14, 2017
John Cannan, a research and instructional services librarian in the Kline School of Law, was quoted in a June 14 story in The Hill about the lack of committee hearings the Senate has held while crafting a revision of the American Health Care Act.
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June 14, 2017
Girija Kaimal, EdD, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was quoted in a June 14 Pacific Standard article about her study into the effect art-making has on the brain’s reward pathway. Detroit’s WJR-AM also covered the study during a segment June 15.
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June 14, 2017
James Ostman, an undergraduate in the College of Engineering, was interviewed on WHYY-Radio (91-FM)’s “Newsworks Tonight” in a segment about his group’s senior design project: a bulletproof curtain system.
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June 14, 2017
President John Fry was included in a June 14 Philadelphia Style story that featured six Philadelphia influencers and what they enjoy doing in Philadelphia during the summer months.
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June 14, 2017
The A.J. Drexel Autism Institute was mentioned and had its 2015 National Autism Indicators Report referenced by the New York Times June 14 in an article about a type of learning environment for children with autism. This year's National Autism Indicators Report was featured in a June 13 Disability Scoop article.
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June 14, 2017
Jeff Gregorio, a doctoral candidate in the College of Engineering, and Peter English a Knight Foundation artist-in-residence at the ExCITe Center, were featured in a June 14 WHYY/Newsworks story about an electromagnetic drum instrument they invented.
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June 13, 2017
Argie Allen, PhD, director of clinical training in the Couples and Family Therapy program of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was interviewed for a June 14 Philadelphia Daily News article focusing on the presence of Camille Cosby at Bill Cosby's trial.
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June 13, 2017
Ron Bishop, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a June 13 ESPN “NFL Nation” article about hold out ideology and the change of narrative between football players and employers.
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June 12, 2017
A study on the birth control effect that the artificial sweetener behind Trivia has on fruit flies, authored by Sean O'Donnell, PhD, and Daniel Marenda, PhD, both professors in the College of Arts and Sciences, was the focus of a June 1 Food52 article. They were both quoted in a related story on the website of WESH-TV (NBC-2, Orlando, Florida), which was picked up by network affiliates across the country. Fox News' "The Daily Meal" also covered the study on June 12.
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June 11, 2017
Paul Harrington, PhD, a professor in the School of Education and director of the Center for Labor Markets and Policy, was featured in a June 11 NJ.com story offering tips for teen job seekers.
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June 10, 2017
John Kounios, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, authored a June 10 New York Times opinion piece refuting a claim that Mark Zuckerberg made in his commencement address at Harvard. Zuckerberg suggested that that "the idea of a single eureka moment" is "a dangerous lie."
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June 9, 2017
James Roberts, MD, a professor in the College of Medicine, was quoted in a June 9 MedPage Today story about the painkiller Opana ER, which the FDA now wants off the market.
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June 9, 2017
A June 9 USA Today opinion column about a House bill that would impose mandatory minimum sentencing for teens cited a Drexel study, by researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences, about the prevalence of "sexting" among teens. The column was picked up by the Statesman Journal and the Asbury Park Press and a related story also ran on WTLV-TV (NBC-Jacksonville, Florida).
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June 8, 2017
Harriet Levin Milan, associate teaching professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the certificate program in Writing and Publishing, authored a novel, “How Fast Can You Run,” which is based on the story of Kuch, a "Lost Boy of Sudan" who was separated from his family in 1988 when his village in South Sudan was destroyed during the country’s long Civil War. Millan was interviewed on June 6 by Aspen Public Radio regarding the story.
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June 8, 2017
Drexel was mentioned in a June 8 slideshow in the Philadelphia Business Journal about Nick Bayer, CEO and found of Saxby’s, who is also an adjunct professor at Drexel. The University and the coffee company have partnered to create the nation’s first student-run café.
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June 7, 2017
Guy Diamond, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was quoted in a June 7 WCAU-TV (NBC-10) story on the importance of talking about suicide to prevent it.
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June 7, 2017
Jonathan Deutsch, PhD, a professor in the Center for Hospitality and Sport Management was interviewed in a June 7 Philly Voice article about the origin and meaning of the word “gourmet”
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June 7, 2017
A letter to the editor by George W. Gephart Jr., president and CEO of the Academy of Natural Sciences, about President Trump's decision to leave the Paris climate agreement was published in the June 7 edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer. The letter called the departure a step backward in the global effort to combat global warming.
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June 7, 2017
Danuta Nitecki, PhD, dean of Libraries, was quoted in a June 6 Philadelphia Inquirer story about the role Drexel's library scientists played in creating a digital archive of WHYY's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross. Jordan McClain, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was also quoted
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June 7, 2017
Drexel was mentioned in a June 7 WTXF-TV (FOX-29) story about “College Signing Day,” a celebration held at the Wells Fargo Center for Philadelphia high school seniors heading to college in the fall.
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June 6, 2017
A new exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences that shows kids what they can experience in their own backyard was featured in KYW-TV (CBS-3) and KYW Newsradio (1060-AM) stories on June 6.
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June 5, 2017
Danish Dhamani, an undergraduate in the College of Engineering, and Parish Gupta, an undergraduate in the College of Computing & Informatics, were featured in a June 5 Fast Company story about their speech coaching app called Orai.
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June 5, 2017
Nick Jushchyshyn, an assistant teaching professor in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and director of the Animation & Visual Effects program, was mentioned in a June 5 Generocity post about how organizations are using augmented and virtual realities.
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June 5, 2017
Sean O'Donnell, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a June 5 Daily Meal story about his study that showed how the artificial sweetener Truvia limits the egg production of fruit flies.
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June 3, 2017
Joseph Hancock, PhD, a professor in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, was quoted in a June 3 NBCNews.com story about the closing of 1,000 retail stores in a week.
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June 2, 2017
A study by Drexel’s Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation was included in a June 2 opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on suburban Philadelphia home values that haven't rebounded from the 2008 mortgage crisis.
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June 2, 2017
Allan B. Schwartz, MD, a professor in the College of Medicine, authored a June 2 "Medical Mystery" column for The Philadelphia Inquirer about Thomas Jefferson's debilitating headaches, which have long been the source of debate for physicians and historians.
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June 2, 2017
A June 2 Forbes story about a House bill that would subject teenagers to jail time for “sexting" mentioned a 2014 study by researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences, which found that more than half of college students surveyed had sent explicit texts as minors. The study was also mentioned in stories about the bill on KGW.com (Portland), Law Street Media and TheStranger.com.
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June 2, 2017
Anil Kalhan, JD, an associate professor in the Kline School of Law, was quoted in an ABC News article on June 2 regarding the Trump travel ban, and where things will go after the Supreme Court appeal.
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June 1, 2017
Andrew Cohen, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Engineering, was featured in a June 1 Technically Philly story about his image sequencing lab’s work to glean data from a 3D video of organelles in a live cell. Cohen and Uri Hershberg, PhD, an associate professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems and the College of Medicine, contributed to a paper on this research that was recently published in the journal Nature.
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June 1, 2017
Franco Montalto, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Engineering, was quoted in June 1 Philadelphia Inquirer and WCAU-TV (NBC-10) stories about local municipalities reacting to the president’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement.
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June 1, 2017
Ellen Staurowsky, EdD, a professor in the Center for Hospitality and Sport Management, was quoted in a June 1 Chicago Tribune article regarding the $250K settlement awarded to former Illinois FB player Simon Cvijanovic for medical expenses due to alleged coach mistreatment.
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June 1, 2017
Mariana Chilton, PhD, a professor in the School of Public Health and director of the Center For Hunger-Free Communities, authored a column for The Hill on June 4 about the effect of the president's proposed cuts to the federal food stamp program. A related story quoting Chilton ran in the Philly Voice on June 1.
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June 1, 2017
CIO magazine published an article in its June edition authored by Rajneesh Suri, PhD, a professor in the LeBow College of Business, and Siddharth Bhatt, a PhD candidate in LeBow, about a partnership with SEI Investments through LeBow College's Corporate Education program that tested the usability of the SEI Wealth Platform (SM) using Drexel's functional near-infrared spectroscopy technology that measures brain activity.
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June 1, 2017
Philip Ayoub, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a May 31 Associated Press story about LGBTQ activists that was picked up by media outlets across the country on June 1 including The Washington Post and ABC News.
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June 1, 2017
A study on the birth control effect that the artificial sweetener behind Trivia has on fruit flies, authored by Sean O'Donnell, PhD, and Daniel Marenda, PhD, both professors in the College of Arts and Sciences, was the focus of a June 1 Food52 article. They were both quoted in a related story on the website of WESH-TV (NBC-2, Orlando, Florida), which was picked up by network affiliates across the country. Fox News' "The Daily Meal" also covered the study on June 12.
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