August

Dragon Bowl 2.0, an intercollegiate Overwatch tournament hosted by Drexel Solutions Institute (DSI), was held for the second year and served as a research platform for students to study team personality and dynamics in esports.

In the spring of 2021, Jonathan Deutsch, professor in the Departments of Food and Hospitality Management and Nutrition Sciences, was having coffee with Ellen Yin when the conversation turned to the difficulty of filling jobs at her Philadelphia restaurants. Yin, a James Beard Award-winning restauranteur who operates High Street Hospitality Group, and her counterparts throughout Philadelphia were struggling to find people to fill vacancies — a lingering byproduct of the pandemic. “We need help,” Deutsch recalled Yin saying.