2014

December
- Westphal College Receives Drexel’s Largest-Ever NEH Grant, Will Host First Summer Institute on the History of Design
  
  December 15, 2014
  After being awarded the largest grant Drexel has ever received from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design will host a a summertime institute featuring seminars on the history of design.
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October
- Newt Eyes and Dragon Scales: A Halloween Q+A on the History of Witchcraft
  
  October 27, 2014
  With Halloween on the horizon, DrexelNow reached out to Jonathan Seitz, PhD, director of undergraduate studies and associate teaching professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, who will be teaching a new course on the history of witchcraft during the winter term. He also authored the book “Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice” (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and is currently conducting research exploring magic and witchcraft practices closer to home — in Pennsylvania around 1700 and in more recent times.
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- Major LGBT History Discovery Brings Veteran's Life Story to Light
  
  October 10, 2014
  Researchers have discovered a previously unknown 149-page manuscript from 1940 defending homosexuality, and documented the remarkable life of its author, a gay Jewish World War II veteran.
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May
- Ask the Archivist: The Many Moves of A.J. Drexel's Statue
  
  May 15, 2014
  The statue of the University's founder, Anthony J. Drexel, hasn't always gazed down Market Street. Its current location is only the latest of many places it has called home since 1905.
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April
- Ask the Archivist-Spring Festival
  
  April 23, 2014
  If you were working at Drexel 80 years ago, it would be just about time to gear up for the dance around the maypole at the annual Spring Festival.
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March
- Drexel Professor’s New Film Tells Untold Story of Black American Soldiers in Great Britain during World War II
  
  March 10, 2014
  More than a million African-Americans fought during WWII, but their military still segregated and discriminated against them.
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February
- Black History Month
  
  February 24, 2014
  Several African-American pioneers passed through Drexel, and an effort to achieve diversity and inclusion continues today.
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January
- Building Collapse Commission
  
  January 23, 2014
  Bob Brehm came to Drexel to get away from the news cameras, but he found himself in front of them after Philadelphia's deadly Market Street building collapse in June 2013. Now he and another Drexel professor, Scott Gabriel Knowles, are stepping up to help the city in the collapse's wake.
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