2018

October
- CoAS Accomplishments in Brief
  
  October 19, 2018
  We are pleased to recognize the recent grants, publications, presentations, awards and honors of members of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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September
- Welcoming New Faculty to the College of Arts and Sciences
  
  September 25, 2018
  We are thrilled to introduce the following new faculty members and welcome them to the College of Arts and Sciences community.
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- CoAS Accomplishments in Brief
  
  September 24, 2018
  
  We are pleased to recognize the recent grants, publications, presentations, awards and honors of members of the College of Arts and Sciences.
  
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June
- Math Professor Receives Midcareer Award for Research in Nonlinear Waves
  
  June 28, 2018
  David Ambrose, PhD, associate department head and professor of mathematics at Drexel University, is the recipient of the second biennial T. Brooke Benjamin Prize in Nonlinear Waves. The SIAM Activity Group on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures awards the prize every two years to an outstanding midcareer researcher in the area of nonlinear waves.
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May
- College of Arts and Sciences Tenure, Promotion and Awards
  
  May 22, 2018
  The mission of the College of Arts and Sciences and the University could not be accomplished without the dedication and support of our faculty members. It is their pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and scholarship that reinforces our position as a modern liberal arts college, and enhances our University’s reputation as a world-class research institution.
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April
- Mathematics Major Forges Future in Actuarial Science at Independence Blue Cross
  
  April 30, 2018
  In the spring of 2017, Stephen Costa and his coworkers at Independence Blue Cross were closely following the debate raging over health care reform. The junior mathematics and finance major knew that a new health care policy could affect his work on the company’s Medicare Advantage plans — but how?
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- From National Defense to Health Care Startup, Physics Major Finds Future Anywhere She Wants
  
  April 03, 2018
  The thrill of solving complex problems — and the countless applications of her degree — have drawn Drexel University physics junior Riley Stanford to bridge the disciplines of engineering, biophysics, chemistry, math and more, and to tackle challenges as wide ranging as threats to national defense and a mutant strain of Alzheimer’s disease.
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February
- Mathematics Major Finds Passion for Business at Exelon
  
  February 05, 2018
  A few weeks into her co-op at Exelon Corporation, Hannah Knarr made her way to the office of a vice president. Armed with a whiteboard and a few dry erase markers, the senior Drexel mathematics major was tasked with explaining, in plain language, complex mathematical concepts relevant to the business.
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January
- Calm Amid the Storm
  
  January 19, 2018
  
  As hurricane Irma barreled toward south Florida in early September, Kathleen Reardon gathered her staff to give them something akin to a pep talk. The situation in the Caribbean looked truly frightening that morning, with Irma devastating island chain after island chain with a ferocity that left meteorologists astounded. There was talk, too, that the just-developing Hurricane Jose might turn northward and put Bermuda — the headquarters for Reardon and her team at global reinsurance firm Hamilton Re — in harm’s way as well.
  
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