Gena Alulis, Founder and CEO of Philadelphia-based Superfit, Inc., has had tremendous success taking her business from a start-up custom-fit jewelry designer to a high-growth ring manufacturer.

Congratulations to the following students, who have earned either their BS or MS in Nutrition and will be attending dietetic internships in the coming year.

Emily-Ann Ruedemann is a senior nursing student in Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions. Now in the midst of her third (and final) co-op cycle, she is currently working as a nurse co-op in the intermediate cardiac care unit at Jefferson University Hospital.

If you were given a week to sample a desired major and connect with professionals in your field, all before coming to college, would you take it? The high school students who attended Drexel’s Exploration in Mental Health Careers hosted by the Behavioral Health Counseling Department certainly did. From June 22 – 26 and July 6 – 10 nearly 30 students made the journey to Drexel to get the inside scoop on all things mental health, and their experiences couldn’t have been more positive.

Drexel’s art therapy faculty and alumni from both the PhD in Creative Arts Therapies and Masters in Art Therapy and Counseling programs were well represented at the 46th Annual Conference of The American Art Therapy Association (AATA). This year’s conference was held in Minneapolis, with Temple Grandin, PhD, as the keynote speaker.

Through a long-standing partnership with the Delaware County Juvenile Detention Center, graduate students in the Music Therapy and Counseling program are helping to bring joy, a creative outlet and --most importantly -- music, to an adolescent population whose current circumstances are uncertain, often creating a great deal of anxiety among them.

Lew Bennett, DNP, chair, Nurse Anesthesia Department, and Ferne Cohen, EdD, associate chair, Nurse Anesthesia Department, started developing Dragon Traks in fall 2014. The innovative system performs two functions that are having incredible impact on nurse anesthesia students: tracking their clinical cases and completing daily clinical evaluations. 

As the topic of mental health on college campuses continues to garner attention from the media, student bodies and university administrations, Drexel’s Angela Mancao aims to take a proactive approach to awareness. 

Every fall, Drexel Magazine editors face a tough challenge: whittle down a list of hundreds into just a few dozen who will make up the next class of 40 Under 40 honorees.

Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11th Street Family Health Services officially opened their awe-inspiring new wing to patients on Monday, June 29. Adding a remarkable 17,000 square feet of space to the practice, the new wing includes space for nursing, nutrition sciences, couple and family therapy and creative arts therapies as well as the expansion of primary care services.

Drexel University is committed to providing a welcoming, inclusive and respectful environment for students, faculty and professional staff. Diversity and inclusion are at the foundation of Drexel’s success and are integrated into the fabric of the University – its curricular and co-curricular offerings, policies, programs and practices. 

The Drexel Phyisician Assistant Department is starting a partnership and exchange program with the brand new Physician Associate Department at the University of Worcester in England. 

The World University Games are something of a legacy for Eric Zillmer, Drexel’s director of athletics.