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A group of transfer students were seeking community at their new school, so they made their own.

Students from across the country will get a chance to design their own version of the skyscraper-size video games that have become the calling card of Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio and Westphal College of Media Arts & Design Professor Frank Lee. PhD. Through a collaboration with professor Erin Truesdell at New Jersey Institute of Technology— dubbed “Skyscraper Games” — the studio will engage K-12 students in learning computing concepts through digital game developments and creative expression as they design games on a virtual model of Brandywine Realty Trust’s 29-story Cira Centre office building in Philadelphia.

Scientists from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center have uncovered a crucial structural feature of a key malaria drug target, known as PfATP4, and discovered a previously unknown binding partner that could reshape antimalarial drug design.