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Health & Medicine by Apr 1, 20134:15 pmDecember 2, 2016
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Wipe the Cat with a Damp Cloth and other Healthy Home Tips

Dust. It’s probably not the biggest health hazard in your life, or in your home. But if your household includes the small and vulnerable (think toddlers and pets), it’s worth thinking about how you can […]

Community & Society by Mar 28, 20131:40 pmDecember 2, 2016
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Texting While Driving: Unsafe at Any Speed?

Big headlines today state the obvious: Texting while driving is dangerous, practically everyone knows it, and a lot of people do it anyway. That’s the widely reported finding of a new AT&T survey about texting […]

Science & Technology by Mar 27, 20137:49 amDecember 2, 2016
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Dusting for Prints from a Fossil Fish to Understand Evolutionary Change

In 370 million-year-old red sandstone deposits in a highway roadcut, scientists have discovered a new species of armored fish in north central Pennsylvania. Fossils of armored fishes like this one, a phyllolepid placoderm, are known […]

Science & Technology by Britt FaulstickMar 18, 201312:21 pmMarch 19, 2013
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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 […]

Community & Society by Mar 14, 201312:04 pmApril 17, 2013
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In School and Out of Trouble: A New Effort to Engage Mantua Middle-Schoolers

“It’s like they just forget about us when we get old.” This isn’t a statement you would expect to hear from a 12-year-old boy, and yet, for hundreds of youth in the Mantua section of […]

Business & Law by Niki GianakarisMar 8, 20138:29 pmMarch 11, 2013
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Can Music Affect How Much We Trust?

You don’t need research to tell you that listening to an upbeat tune will improve your mood, behavior and emotions as opposed to listening to a rather solemn one, but Drexel University professor David Gefen […]

Health & Medicine by Britt FaulstickMar 1, 201312:16 pmApril 17, 2013
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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 […]

Community & Society by Feb 27, 20134:36 pmDecember 2, 2016
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Dr. Ted Daeschler with Stephen Colbert

This Keeps Happening! Drexel Research Cameo during Late Night Comedy

Spotted last night during The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: That’s Dr. Mariana Chilton of Drexel’s School of Public Health. Chilton’s appearance on The Daily Show this week was in a clip from A Place […]

Arts & Culture by Britt FaulstickFeb 21, 20134:32 pmMarch 18, 2013
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The Magic Behind Movie Making: A Drexel Professor’s Role in “Silver Linings Playbook”

The final word on the year’s best movies is annually handed down by the Academy of Motion Pictures in the form of little, gold “Oscar” statuettes. And while the stars are still the most recognizable part of these […]

Community & Society by Feb 20, 20131:40 pmDecember 2, 2016
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Building an Autism-Friendly Space: A Tour of the Drexel Autism Institute’s Future Home

“We’re going to need an autism-friendly building.” Dr. Jennifer Plumb, a clinical social worker, made this comment mid-way through a tour of the future home of the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute on Market Street in […]

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