College life might look glamorous through an Instagram filter, but a new awareness campaign at Drexel University is aiming to remind students that all undergraduates struggle at one time or another. Paul Furtaw, PsyD, associate […]
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Deleting This Fatty Acid Receptor Helps Mice Recover From Spinal Cord Injury
Researchers from Drexel University and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have discovered a new target for treating spinal cord injury. In a recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the scientists […]
Drexel Snapshot: A New Way to Look at Research
This is an enhanced dual-overlay map showing more than 18,000 publications by 3,790 authors at Drexel University and the 68,263 references from which they draw information (click on the image to take a closer look). […]
Staying Ahead of the Hackers
“The size of the cybersecurity challenge out there is staggering. Given all of the threats out there right now, I’d say there is a very high demand for people with knowledge who can understand these attacks and develop technology […]
Is Watching Video Games a New National Pastime?
While it might not have the same nostalgia as a trip to the ballpark, gathering around to watch someone play a video game has been happening since the age of arcades in the 1970s. This […]
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 […]
Candy Crush’s Latest Saga: Going Public
King Digital Entertainment, a London-based gaming company, announced this week that it will take the company public in an attempt to capitalize on the wild popularity of its game Candy Crush Saga. The free-to-play mobile […]
Drexel Welcomes Convocation Speaker Freeman Hrabowski
It’s that time of the year again. On Oct. 22, Drexel faculty and staff will don their colorful regalia to celebrate the start of a new academic year by observing the time-honored tradition that is […]
What do Shepherds and Cybercriminals Have in Common?
Tracking down and prosecuting cybercriminals is one of the more daunting challenges facing law enforcement agencies today. Online anonymity, questions of jurisdiction and difficulty in gathering and preserving evidence are all significant impediments to the […]
Fables in the Boardroom: Seven Tales for Strategic Success
Strategic initiatives fail far more often than they succeed despite the massive amount of resources organizations devote to the development and execution of these strategies, according to Vadake (V.K.) Narayanan, professor and director of the […]