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Packed House at the Annual Black History Month Luncheon
February 29, 2016
Attendance exceeded expectations at this year’s annual Black Faculty & Professional Staff Association’s lunch event. Luckily, there was still plenty of soul food to go around.
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Examining Drexel’s Ties to the First African-American Women Physicians
February 26, 2016
Some of the country’s first African-American women physicians graduated from an institution that later grew into Drexel’s College of Medicine.
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Meet Drexel’s First Black Male Graduate: William Sidney Pittman
February 05, 2016
William Sidney Pittman broke racial barriers at Drexel and across the country as one of the first prominent Black architects in America.
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Employee Spotlight: Scott Knowles and Richardson Dilworth
February 04, 2016
Professors Scott Knowles and Richardson Dilworth are reliving Drexel’s entire 125 years of existence in a new book and online oral history that will be unveiled later this year, to coincide with the anniversary of Drexel’s founding in 1891.
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