Paul Nolan, Director of Music Therapy at the College of Nursing and Health Professions, has learned from the Certification Board for Music Therapists that Drexel students have regularly aced the Board Certification Exam for a decade. Results for the past 10 years indicate that Drexel graduates scored consistently above the national average for a 96.5 pass rate. 

Cascades of rosemary emit a pungent, pine-like aroma with a woody camphoraceous note. This aromatic shrub has scaly bark and tiny pale-blue flowers that coalesce, nestled among dense leathery, needle-like leaves...

Robert Palisano, ScD, Lisa Chiarello, PhD, and Margo Orlin, PhD, co-authored articles published in the Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology Journal that were the 6th and 21st most cited in the year 2012.

Faculty from the Nurse Anesthesia Department have returned to school part-time to obtain their doctoral degrees in accordance with a mandate from the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs...

Drexel Pre-Physician Assistant student Alexandra Kirczow and Nursing student Judith Parent had the unique opportunity to connect with hospice patients on a personal level while taking a summer course called “Life is Beautiful.”

This September, pick up a copy of Art As Research, a new book about art-based research, and you will see a chapter written by Nancy Gerber, PhD, with Elizabeth Templeton and PhD students from CNHP’s Creative Arts Therapies Program...

Drexel University was the only college or university nationally to win a Well Workplace Award from The Wellness Council of America this year...

Sherry Goodill, PhD, a clinical professor and Chair of the Creative Arts Therapies Department at the College of Nursing and Health Professions, presented on a panel called the Continuum of Arts & Health Practitioners: Creative Arts Therapists, Artists in Residence, Performer. 

Drexel University’s Physical Therapy Club and the Arnold Air Society hosted a 5k Fun Run on the morning of July 13 to support the Wounded Warrior Project. The Fighter Jet 5k was held at the Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and raised more than $3,000 to support our servicemen and women...

Do you have raw chicken sitting in your refrigerator at home right now? If the answer to that question is yes, “you should assume that you have either Salmonella or Campylobacter bacteria on it, if not both,” Jennifer Quinlan, PhD, an associate professor in the Nutrition Sciences Department, explains.

“I always find it a great compliment when people ask me if I’m native,” said Sister Katherine Baltazar, a psychiatric nurse currently working on a Native American reservation with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.

On August 20, friends of 11^th Street that included alumni, community members, and Philadelphia City Council Representative William Greenlee joined together to celebrate their appreciation of a $100,000 gift made to 11^th Street by The Walmart Foundation.

The University expects to gain more than 3,500 new students on campus in the fall. In order to welcome them into the Drexel community- to which they will belong as students and then as alumni for the rest of their lives- the University has planned a series of New Student Send-off events in different cities throughout the United States...

John A. Kristel, MPT ‘97, President and CEO of the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been appointed Chair of the Good Shepherd Penn Partners Board of Directors...

MSN student Allison Bungardas traveled to Vietnam with the organization Vets With A Mission from June 19 to July 5, 2013. She worked in two clinics in the Da Nang area, Vietnam, to satisfy the clinical practicum requirement for a course called Nurses Building a Healthy Community...

Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health Professions’ Physician Assistant students Anna Boccardo and Darence Thong gave a lecture about smoking cessation to residents at Project H.O.M.E., a halfway house in Philadelphia that helps formerly homeless people adjust during transitions...

DrNP student Jean Logan was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine for her article, Exploring Public Attitudes Towards Approaches to Discussing Costs in the Clinical Encounter. The article’s objective was to explore public attitudes toward doctor-patient discussions of insurer and out-of-pocket costs and to examine whether several possible communication strategies might enhance patient receptivity to discussing costs with their physicians...

Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions was selected to participate in The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program during the 2013-2014 academic year...

Beth Leonberg, an assistant clinical professor in the Nutrition Sciences Department and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics, was a co-author on a new study led by Drexel’s School of Public Health. Titled “Exploratory Analysis of Fast-Food Chain Restaurant Menus Before and After Implementation of Local Calorie-Labeling Policies, 2005-2011,” the study was recently published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease...

Rachel Hudes, BS Nutrition ‘10, draws upon her experiences as a co-op at 11^th Street Family Health Services as she forges ahead as the founding leader of her business, Delicious Control. Here, Rachel answers our questions about how her work at 11^th Street shaped her path to entrepreneurship...

Drexel’s Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences Department hosted the 8^th Annual Innovations in School-based Physical Therapy Practice conference here in Philadelphia on July 13 and 14, 2013. Margo Orlin, PhD, Department Chair and associate professor, led the coordination efforts and received assistance from a number of Doctor of Physical Therapy students...

The Complementary and Integrative Therapies Program is introducing a new course in the fall quarter, titled Yoga for the Enlightened Practitioner. The course has limited enrollment and is delivered entirely online via weekly PowerPoint lectures with embedded video recordings of different yoga postures. “It integrates the traditional underpinnings of yogic philosophy with contemporary medical yoga techniques,” explained Stephanie Ross, Director of the Complementary and Integrative Therapies Program...

2013 marks the tenth consecutive year that BAYADA Home Health Care founder and President J. Mark Baiada and his wife, Ann, have announced and congratulated the winners of the BAYADA Awards for Technical Innovation in Nursing Education and Practice. The awards acknowledge nurses who have made a significant contribution to either nursing education or practice through the use of new technology...

Nursing students at Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health Professions have the opportunity to experience and learn about 11th Street Family Health Services and the surrounding community while they complete their community public health clinical rotations out of the health center. One of the options that the nursing students have during their rotations is to work with the children and teens who participate in programming at the John F. Street Community center (JFSCS), located next door to 11^th Street...

Han Chen, MD, MPH, a PhD candidate in Rehabilitation Sciences at Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions, was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the World Congress of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM), held in Beijing, China in June...

Robert “Bob” Palisano, ScD, received the title of Distinguished Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences and is now one of only a few faculty members across the entire University to lay claim to the Distinguished Professor title. “It’s always an honor when you get recognized for something that you really didn’t directly apply for,” Palisano said...

Kristen Kochenour, a second year student in the Master’s Program in Human Nutrition, taught a six day camp about healthy lifestyles in The Bahamas to a group of fifty 5-12 year-old children this summer...