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Feb 5, 2019

Dr. Brian Blake joins Innovators to talk about how Drexel University has evolved as a technology institution and become one of the most complete universities in the country. Dr. Blake talks about the university's ambitions to be the "most civically engaged university in the country" and what the school is doing to improve the lives of their undergraduate and graduate students, in-class and online.

Dr. Blake became Provost at Drexel in 2015 and oversees across 15 schools at Drexel and more than 26,000 students. Before he started at Drexel, he was associate dean for research and graduate studies at the University of Notre Dame's College of Engineering. He has degrees from George Mason University, Mercer University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Innovators is a podcast production of Harris Search Associates. The show is produced by Grant Burkhardt.

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