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  • A Bigger Window for Fragile X Treatment
    Quad Ask 2017

    A Bigger Window for Fragile X Treatment

    A study led by Michael Akins, PhD, assistant professor of biology at Drexel, shows that the treatment window for Fragile X syndrome likely remains open well beyond childhood ...

  • Monsters and Matter
    Quad Ask 2017

    Of Monsters and Matter

    Dark matter is sort of like the Loch Ness monster of the physics world — sure, we’ve all heard of the mythical sea creature, but have you ever ...

  • Gwen Ottinger, PhD
    Quad Ask 2017

    A Breath of Fresh Air

    If you live in a town or city like Philadelphia where industrial facilities are emitting chemicals into the air, there is plenty of reason to wonder: How is ...

  • Quad Ask 2017

    Scholarly Adventures

    With awards from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the National Institutes of Health and more, students and alumni of Drexel’s College of Arts and Sciences are ...

  • Perpectives
    Quad Ask 2016

    Perspectives

    One Issue, Multiple Views: - According to the White House, more than 10,000 Syrian refugees were admitted to the United States this past fiscal year, along with tens ...

  • How to Train 'Superhuman' Geoscientists
    Quad Ask 2016

    How to Train ‘Superhuman’ Geoscientists

    Photos by Avi Cohen Nehemia/Thinkstock Photos and Charles Shan Cerrone The radiologist interpreting your MRI scan and the geologist assessing our natural resource reserves have one important thing ...

  • Building Toward Discovery
    Quad Ask 2016

    Building Toward Discovery

    A Drexel Professor’s Role in Finding Gravitational Waves - When talking about his contributions to science, Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen farther, it is by standing ...

  • Zadie Smith
    Quad Ask 2016

    An Evening with Zadie Smith

    Photo by Charles Shan Cerrone All eyes were on Zadie Smith this spring as she read an unpublished short story to a packed Mandell Theater. The novelist, essayist ...

  • Natural Curiosity
    Quad Ask 2016

    Natural Curiosity

    Aside from being a stone’s throw away from Fairmount Park — one of the largest urban parks in the nation — Drexel University is deeply connected to the ...

  • Going for the Gold
    Quad Ask 2016

    Going for the Gold

    Photos by Drexel Fellowships and Andrew Pellegrino The 2016 Summer Olympics made for quite the decorated year for athletes all over the world. Competing on the academic stage, ...

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From the Dean

It feels fitting that my first note in Ask as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences would be on the topic of leadership. I’ve led teams throughout my career at Drexel, as director of the Applied Neuro-Technologies Lab and as head of the Department of Psychology, but the role of dean brings a new challenge and opportunity to expand on the approaches I’ve learned through the years.

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From the Editor

Some of my earliest, fondest memories are of the afternoons I spent with my grandfather growing up.

On our walks through the woods or flying kites, I learned how to slow down and appreciate the world around me, how to find joy and beauty in quiet moments spent with people we love.

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