In Philadelphia, news headlines are riddled with school disruptions from aging infrastructure – asbestos, mold abatement and ineffective heating and cooling systems. These issues are rife in many urban districts. A team of researchers from […]
Tag: Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
Shelter from the Storm: Helping Communities Find a Climate- Resilient Future
For the better part of a decade, researchers and students from Drexel University’s College of Engineering have been collaborating with governmental and non-governmental partners in Camden, New Jersey and Philadelphia’s Eastwick neighborhood on the development […]
Q+A: Can AI Help Video Games Reach the Next Level?
Frank Lee, PhD, founder of Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio, considers how artificial intelligence could change the way video games are made and how we play them.
Slowing Down Can Help Photographers Find Their Subject
Westphal College of Media Arts & Design Photography Professor Andrea Modica is known for using a distinctive technique to photograph her subjects that requires a great deal of patience. Eschewing the latest technology, Modica uses […]
Q+A: What the Writers Guild Strike Tells Us About the State of the Entertainment Industry
More than 11,000 television and film writers stopped working last week after failing to reach a new contract agreement with the studios that churn out movies, cable and streaming shows. The Writers Guild of America […]
Q+A: Is This The Metaverse?
Taking a break from reality and stepping into a world where you have a little more control over things probably sounds pretty good right now. Tech companies, like the one formerly known as Facebook, think […]
Q+A: Why Giving an Oscar For ‘Popular’ Films is an Unpopular Decision
This week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts announced a series of changes for the Oscars, its annual awards ceremony. Chief among them is a new category for achievement in popular film. While the move is […]
Sharing Means Winning in Drexel Students’ Video Game
The latest student-designed video game out of Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio is encouraging players to get close — really close — while racing through an obstacle course virtually and physically linked to their teammate. In […]
Q+A: Before Kelly and Carlson — The Struggle For Equality In The Newsroom
Fifty years from now the struggle for workplace equality might be remembered as just another relic from one of the embarrassing bits of American history. That women working in media 50 years ago could only […]
Q+A: Don’t Blink! Ang Lee’s New Movie Packs in Detail by Dialing up the Frame Rate
This week the director who gave audiences acclaimed, visual masterpieces “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Life of Pi,” is asking viewers to trust him as he pushes beyond the limits of our collective visual comfort […]