September

September 25th marks National Research Administrators Day, a day that we recognize the contributions made by research administrators every day. National Research Administrators Day was designed to acknowledge how administrators regularly support the faculty and researchers in their work, protect our institution's research reputation, and ensure the sound stewardship of sponsored research dollars. 

Join Becky Miller, PhD, Program Officer for the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, as she gives a presentation on the High-Risk, High-Reward Research program at NIH. This program supports researchers pursuing highly innovate research with the potential for broad impact in biomedical, behavioral, or social sciences within the NIH mission. She will discuss the current NIH Director’s Awards that provide a diverse set of funding opportunities, including the Pioneer Award (senior investigators), New Innovator Award (early career investigators), Transformative Research Award, and Early Independence Award (recently graduated PhDs).

As you know from President Fry's recent communication, Drexel University is currently facing significant financial challenges. These hardships are directly attributed to the situation with our College of Medicine and declining graduate student enrollment. We have made numerous critical changes in our efforts to weather these times, and now find it necessary to take additional measures to close a sizable budget gap. Every unit across Drexel has had to make cuts in order to reach our reduced budget amounts for fiscal year 2020, and unfortunately, we were required to make tough decisions as part of this process.