Armed with 3D scans of the most complete supermassive dinosaur skeleton ever unearthed, and the latest paleontology and biomechanical research, a graduate student in Westphal College’s Digital Media program, is bringing a giant dinosaur to […]
Category: Arts & Culture
Drexel Senior Product Design Students Create to Inspire Positive Societal Change
Life-like prosthetics, empowerment campaigns and tools to combat culture shock will be on display as Drexel Seniors from the Product Design program in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design debut their senior […]
Q+A: The Middle Ground of the Science and Religion Discussion
Often, religion and science are treated as binaries. A person must solely believe in creationism or pure evolution. There was a great flood or there wasn’t. Stem cell research is good or bad. Fraser Fleming […]
ISO: Artists With a Penchant For Tech
Drexel’s ExCITe Center, which has been at the confluence of science, technology and the arts communities in Philadelphia for a number of years, is gearing up to support a new endeavor this spring with an […]
Q+A: Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Diversity
Speculative fiction is a term used to describe works that imagine universes that are unlike our own. The term covers science fiction, fantasy, even the cities of comic book heroes. But far too often, this […]
Shelving Your Concept of ‘Library’
Temple’s Paley Library will be transformed into an interactive game environment this weekend. As with many of Philadelphia’s interactive public art displays in recent years, Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio has had a hand in shifting […]
Student-Designed Game Squeezes Out Competition at Intel Game Developers Conference
While the latest edition of the Princeton Review’s annual rankings once again slotted Drexel among the top 10 schools for game design, a group of Dragons set the program apart with a game that edged […]
11 Hidden Architectural Gems of Philadelphia
In the lead-up to the American Institute of Architects 2016 Conference hosted in Philadelphia, some of the city’s prominent members are letting us in on their favorite places to visit. Drexel’s own Harris Steinberg, executive […]
A Dramatic Shift in the World of Photography
Photographer Harvey Wang began taking pictures as a teenager. He was mid-career when the tools of his trade were made virtually obsolete with the transition from film to digital. In a new film, “From Darkroom […]
Many Animals Were Helped in the Making of This Production
Westphal College of Media Arts & Design professor Brannon Wiles is a producer of a Broadway play called “Sylvia,” starring Tony Award-winners Matthew Broderick, Annaleigh Ashford and Julie White, which recently started a limited run […]