2014

- Student Travels to Nation of Georgia to Study Health Systems
  
  December 22, 2014
  
  A Drexel student working toward his master’s degree in public health traveled to Georgia for the winter break to help create the groundwork for a new method of teaching new systems to public health practitioners.
  
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- Spanning the Globe: Drexel Research Reaches Around the World in 2014
  
  November 11, 2014
  
  Where in the world have Drexel professors conducted research in 2014? The answer: all seven continents.
  
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- Grad Student Wins #PayMyTuition Challenge
  
  September 30, 2014
  
  Inspired by the summer's viral “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge,” some college students started the “Pay My Tuition” challenge. Education software developer Blackboard Inc., jumped on board and announced it would give away $25,000 in scholarship money. And a Drexel grad student won $15,000 of it.
  
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- Drexel Team Unveils Dreadnoughtus: A Gigantic, Exceptionally Complete Sauropod Dinosaur
  
  September 04, 2014
  
  A Drexel-led team has described a new dinosaur species with the most complete skeleton ever found of one of the largest animals to ever walk the Earth. At 85 feet (26 m) long and weighing about 65 tons (59,300 kg) in life, Dreadnoughtus schrani is the largest land animal for which a body mass can be accurately calculated.
  
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- Basketball China Trip
  
  August 18, 2014
  
  In preparation for its upcoming trip to China for a series of exhibition games, Drexel’s men’s basketball team received some expert coaching in Chinese culture from Han Chiang, well-known restaurateur and owner of seven Han Dynasty restaurants in Philadelphia and New York City.
  
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- Drexel-CHOP-Hebrew Dream Teams
  
  July 30, 2014
  
  Two newly announced “dream teams” of researchers will shape innovative solutions to address unmet pediatric medical needs, as part of Drexel's new research partnership with The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  
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- Architecture Brigade Trip to Honduras
  
  July 28, 2014
  
  Students in the Drexel Global Architecture Brigade organization didn’t know a lot of Spanish before their mission trip to Honduras, but they quickly learned more than just key phrases while working alongside a local family while building a house.
  
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- Israel Co-op
  
  July 16, 2014
  
  As a biomedical engineering student, Julie Speer knew that she needed international experience to prepare for her career. And she realized that she had a golden opportunity through Drexel’s co-op program.
  
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- Beep Cloud Help
  
  July 16, 2014
  
  Huy Dang grew up in Vietnam, and Arsen Nikiforouk in Ukraine. It seems unlikely for them to be friends, much less business partners. But that's what they've become at Drexel.
  
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- Student World Cup Trip
  
  July 14, 2014
  
  For this year’s FIFA World Cup, more Americans bought tickets to see the games than people from any other nation except for Brazil, the host country. Patrick LaFata was one of those Americans who scooped up seats to the international sporting event, but he received a unique two-for-one deal with his trip to São Paolo, Brazil’s largest city.<br />
  
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