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January

  • To Improve Self-Control, Call Weight Loss What It Is: Difficult

    January 29, 2018

    Painting a realistic picture of the challenges of weight loss can lead to greater long-term outcomes, a new study from a Drexel psychologist shows.

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  • Students from Drexel's Story Medicine class at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Lights, Camera, Medicine

    January 18, 2018

    Fifteen Drexel students stood bright-eyed and eager to entertain in front of cameras rolling at a local hospital. Part of a Drexel community-based learning course dubbed Story Medicine, the students were there to engage sick and disabled children through live broadcast programming, using skits to infuse laughter with a little education.

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  • Drexel University student and navy veteran Chris Diaz

    Battle Tested

    January 17, 2018

    Like many of his fellow Americans, Chris Diaz was profoundly affected by the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Quite simply, he says, it was the day that forever changed the trajectory of his life. “On that Tuesday morning, I felt moved to join the military,” recalls the New York native. “And yet, at the same time, I had a newborn son and felt that I couldn’t leave, at least not right at that time.” And so he waited. He spent the next few years helping to raise his young child, and then, just after turning 25, he fulfilled what he considered his obligation to his country and enlisted in the United States Navy.

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  • Psychology Professor Kirk Heilbrun Named Drexel Ombuds

    January 16, 2018

    Kirk Heilbrun, PhD, a psychology professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recently named Drexel’s new ombuds.

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