On November 16, 2021, the College of Nursing and Health Professions in partnership with Offices of University Communications and Enrollment Management & Student Success filmed an Ambition Can't Wait commercial portraying a disaster simulation exercise. Students, alumni, faculty and professional staff took part in the one-day taping at the New College Building on Drexel's Center City Campus.

The Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH) and College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) invite applications from early-career investigators for up to 12 tenure-track assistant professor positions, as part of the inaugural NIH-funded Drexel FIRST program. Drexel FIRST (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) is a novel NIH initiative to enhance inclusive excellence in health disparities research and support career development and retention of early-career investigators with a strong focus on developing independent research. Inclusive excellence refers to a culture that establishes and sustains scientific environments that cultivate and benefit from a full range of talents and involves the recruitment of a critical mass of early-career faculty with commitment to principles of inclusive excellence.

Including students, professional staff, faculty, alumni and community partners, this year's People of Purpose have remarkable stories to share.