• Faculty Highlights: Recent Awards and Grants

    July 31, 2025

    Last term, Drexel University faculty members were recognized for their scholarly research and prolific academic and professional contributions.

    Read More

  • How Are Coastal New Jersey Communities Communicating Hazards of Climate Change?

    July 30, 2025

    Recent climate-related crises — from severe storms and flooding to extreme heat — have raised new questions about how local governments communicate the risk of these crises and what they are doing to keep their citizens safe. To better understand what this communication looks like at local level, and the factors that may be shaping it, researchers from Drexel University analyzed climate resilience planning information available on the public-facing websites of 24 coastal communities in New Jersey that are contending with the effects of sea level rise. Their report, recently published in the Journal of Extreme Events, found wide variation in the number and extent of mitigation actions taken and how the websites describe causes of coastal hazards — for example, only half of the communities are acknowledging sea level rise as a contributing factor to these hazards.

    Read More

  • Drexel to Lead $5 Million Multinational Effort to Produce MXene Materials for Water Desalination and Medical Diagnostics

    July 23, 2025

    Drexel University is embarking on a three-year, $5-million multinational collaboration to produce MXene nanomaterials. The project, which is a collaboration with Kalifa University in the United Arab Emirates, the University of Padua in Italy and the Kyiv, Ukraine-based MXene manufacturing company Carbon-Ukraine, seeks to use the promising nanomaterial, first discovered at Drexel, to provide clean drinking water for arid areas of the world threatened by climate change and improve cell labeling and tracking technology for biomedical analysis.

    Read More

  • Drexel Engineers Want to Make Buildings More Energy Efficient by Making Walls, Floors and Ceilings More Like Elephant Ears

    July 16, 2025

    Drawing inspiration from the veinous ears of jackrabbits and elephants, Drexel University researchers have come up with a new approach to passive heating and cooling that could one day make buildings more energy efficient. Their concept, recently published in the Journal of Building Engineering, embeds a vascular network within cement-based building materials that, when filled with paraffin-based material, can help passively regulate the surface temperature of walls, floors and ceilings.

    Read More

  • Transfer Student Turns New Connections into Career Growth

    July 14, 2025

    Sabina Rahmatova, a chemical engineering student, reflects on transferring to Drexel, building connections on campus, and discovering new possibilities through her first co-op and the hands-on experiences that followed.

    Read More

  • When the World Changes, Drexel Changes With It

    July 09, 2025

    The University wasn’t founded with degree programs or the Drexel Co-op. In fact, it wasn’t even founded as “Drexel University.”

    Read More