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#CoASPicOfTheYears Finalists
Our latest Instagram contest has come to an end. You shared your favorite college moments and now it's time to help us pick the winner. Head over to our Facebook page to vote! |
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Fall Courses
Explore the origins of language, learn about Drexel's 125-year history, and discover the ins and outs of running a student newspaper in these fall courses. |
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Boren Scholars Go Global
From learning Arabic with a host family in Jordan, to studying World War II geopolitics in Kazakhstan, International Area Studies students Alexandra Pickens and Caitlin Walczyk share their year ahead as 2016 David L. Boren Scholars. |
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Cook For Your Life
The Drexel Food Lab and Drexel Edits have joined forces to produce a series of recipes for Cook for Your Life — an organization that promotes healthy cooking for people touched by cancer. |
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A Legacy of Paying it Forward
When criminology student Elizabeth Peckham graduated earlier this month, she was continuing a legacy that started over 80 years ago with her grandmother and great-great uncle. |
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Proof of the Undiscovered
Drexel physicists Michelle Dolinski, PhD, and Russell Neilson, PhD, have joined a Yale-led team of researchers in pursuit of hypothesized non-charged subatomic particles called "sterile" neutrinos," which could represent a new form of matter. |
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Seven Weeks of Festivities
This September, Drexel Writers Room will pay tribute to Zora Neale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (written in just seven weeks) with seven weeks of programming and events — all made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Student Job Opportunities
Need extra cash to fund your summer travels? Apply to work with the Department of Communication or the offices of STS, Public Policy and Sociology. |
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UConnect Wins for Innovative Service Model
Drexel's UConnect program, which helps local residents connect with a range of services, was awarded $40K at the Service Year + Higher Ed Innovation Challenge, winning the private university category and audience choice award. |
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| Debjani Bhattacharyya, PhD, assistant professor of history, received a fellowship to be a visiting scholar at the International Institute of Asian Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She was also elected Professional Division Councilor for the American Historical Association. |
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| Chris Sims, PhD, assistant professor of psychology, received a $742,736 NSF grant for the project "Collaborative Research: Visual Training in the Geosciences by Training Visual Working Memory." |
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| Alison Novak, PhD Culture, Communication and Media '14 and Imaani Jamillah El-Burki, PhD Culture, Communication and Media '12, are co-authors on the book "Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age." The book also features work from Greg Niedt, current CCM PhD student, and Rachel Reynolds, PhD, associate professor of anthropology and of CCM. |
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| Mimi Sheller, PhD, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, will be the PARGC Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Global Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, this fall. Sheller was also awarded a production grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to produce a documentary film, "Fly Me to the Moon," based on her 2014 book "Aluminum Dreams" (MIT Press). She has been invited to present the book and film at the Tropenmuseum in the Netherlands during her sabbatical, and to teach a related course on critical approaches to infrastructure at
the Harvard Graduate School of Design. |
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| Amy Slaton, PhD, professor of history, and Tiago Saraiva, PhD, assistant professor of history, were named co-editors of the international journal History and Technology. |
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| Don Charles, PhD, professor in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, received a $105,633 NSF grant for the project "Collaborative Research: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, Community-Led Cyberinfrastructure for Global Change Research." |
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| Jiu Jiang, PhD, MD, research associate professor of biology, received a $300,000 Neilsen Foundation grant for the project "SCI-Induced Deficits in Memory T Cell Response to Virus Infection." |
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| Phillip Ayoub, PhD, assistant professor of political science, published the book "When States Come Out: Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility" (Cambridge University Press). |
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| Robert Brulle, PhD, professor of sociology, was awarded a $102,745 NSF grant for the project "Collaborative Research: The Role of Information and Influence Campaigns in Structuring Public Responses to U.S. Policy, 1988 – 2015." |
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