The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in favor of American Broadcasting Company in ABC v. Aereo effectively struck down the web-based streaming service’s business plan for capturing and rebroadcasting television content to its subscribers. The […]
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Britt is the executive director of media relations who covers primarily technology and engineering beats, including information and computer science. He also covers a number of areas in media arts and design, student life, research ventures, athletics and more. Britt is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, in his senior year the Orange won the men’s basketball national championship. He worked in Drexel’s athletics department for seven years, during this time the women’s basketball team won its first conference championship. So if history is any indication, the media relations team is due for a big win. Follow him at @DrexelBritt or view his blog posts here. Contact Britt at britt.faulstick@drexel.edu or 215.895.2617.
On The Road Again…This Time, It’s For Air Quality Testing
“Have idea, will travel” … while it’s not Drexel’s official slogan (yet) you could be forgiven if you think so. Over the last few years it seems as though research-on-wheels has become one of the […]
Building a Better Battery With Tanks of Slurry
The biggest drawback preventing widespread use of renewable energy isn’t cloudy, wind-free days. It’s actually the relative stubbornness of the batteries used to store the energy generated by the solar panels and windmills. They fill […]
Drexel Environmental Engineering Expert Available to Discuss President’s Plan For Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions
President Barak Obama’s proposal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by the year 2030 has been characterized as one the most ambitious attempts by the government to curtail pollution since the Clean Air […]
Saving Cats in Outer Space – How Drexel Students Designed a Mobile Game That Supports Animal Welfare on Earth, Too
Kittens are floating off into the cosmos and you’re their only hope. Sheer terror collides with utter cuteness in a mobile game designed by students in Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio. But Galactickitties, the first offering […]
Found in Translation – Taking Science to Society
Ever wonder how universities help to create the cutting-edge medical devices and technologies you might see in the hospital or your doctor’s offices? This week Drexel offers an inside look at the process of taking […]
Dark Silicon: The Microchip Menace
Mark Hempstead is combating Dark Silicon. While that might sound a bit like a recycled Star Wars plot, it’s actually an important piece of research happening at Drexel in hopes of restoring the arc of […]
Aereo Case Could Set a New Precedent For Storing, Streaming Television Content
This week the Supreme Court hears arguments in American Broadcasting Company v. Aereo with its ruling likely to reverberate among cloud storage providers, cable companies, broadcast networks and television consumers. Aereo is a web-based subscription […]
A New Perch For Wireless Research
A 19-and-a-half-foot antenna just got the best view on Drexel University’s campus. Mounted atop the 205-foot Millennium Hall dormitory, the mast designed by a group of electrical engineers from Drexel, will give researchers a perfect […]
Celebrating 30 Years of Block-Stacking Bliss With a 29-Story Game of Tetris
Somewhere between the planning and coding of the last month, the serendipitous timing of Frank Lee’s towering game of Tetris was brought to our attention: The skyscraper-sized iteration of the classic game is actually taking […]