An undergraduate digital media student is changing the way people play games on their mobile devices and, in doing so, helping to change the game design industry itself. Greg Lobanov has been making games for […]
Author: Britt Faulstick
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.
Anointing Excellence: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Selection of the Peabody Awards
The George Foster Peabody Awards have been considered a standard of electronic media excellence for the last 72 years. On May 20, writers, reporters, editors, producers, directors and all manner of media magnates will gather […]
Ten Years of Musical MADness
Drexel became one of the first schools in the country to launch its own student-run record label tied to a degree program when MAD Dragon Records was born in 2003. The fledgling company entered the […]
John, Paul, George and Hubo?
Four humanoid robots stole the spotlight on YouTube last year with their take on the Beatles’ “Come Together.” Now the Drexel engineers responsible are giving a behind-the-scenes look at how the music video…well, came together. […]
Hacking the Heavens
If the stars in the sky could play music, what would it sound like? One Drexel engineer used a bit of star data and a special piano to turn the twinkling of the stars into […]
Are Jazz Cats Hip to Electric Scenes?
What happens when you mix four jazz virtuosos with new technology aimed at breaking their sweet sound down to its elements? Creating a smartphone app that strives to pictorially “explain” the intricacies of a musical […]
How Urban Fiction is Helping to Bring Readers Back to the Library
The most recent National Center for Education Statistics (2006) showed that 22 percent of Philadelphians, ages 16 and above, lack basic literacy skills and according to the Mayor’s Commission on Literacy there are 550,000 adult […]
Pong’s Big Moment in Lights
Playing an 8-bit video game on an 85,360-square-foot monitor in front of an entire city – perhaps the dream of anyone who grew up during the golden age of the arcade in the 1970s and […]
Robots on the High Seas
What if it were possible to predict where a message in a bottle was going to end up? Removing the mysticism of that archetypal fate-guided, maritime missive could turn out to be a key to […]
Guiding Light: Can the Quality of Assisted-Living Home and Hospital Life be Improved With the Flick of a Switch?
Can you imagine a life without sunsets? Twenty-four hours of daylight? Perhaps – if you’re summering in the Arctic Circle. But as a relatively common occurrence in hospitals and group-living centers, it can disrupt sleep […]