2013

December
- Digital Media Publications
  
  December 31, 2013
  
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- Top Stories of 2013
  
  December 18, 2013
  We’ve tried to round up some of the Drexel news that most shaped the year 2013, on campus and off.
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- Opening AJ Drexel Institute for Energy and the Environment
  
  December 16, 2013
  Drexel University is opening a new research institute that will strive to answer some of the most challenging questions about energy and environmental sustainability facing the nation today.
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- Drexel Ends Fundraising Campaign Early, Surpasses Goal
  
  December 13, 2013
  Seven months before its scheduled closing date Drexel University President John A. Fry announced the conclusion of the University’s comprehensive fundraising campaign, “Dream It. Do It. Drexel. A Campaign for the Future.” The campaign’s public phase was launched in November 2011 with a goal of reaching $400 million and was expected to conclude in June 2014, but ended early with its goal already exceeded by $55 million.
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- Fashion Alumna Autumn Kietponglert on Bravo's "Styled to Rock"
  
  December 13, 2013
  
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- Original Composition by Joe Hallman on Grammy-Nominated Album
  
  December 10, 2013
  
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- Music Industry Staff, Alumnus Produce Grammy-Nominated Work
  
  December 10, 2013
  
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- Music Industry Band “Moonshine Heather” Debut Album Out Dec. 10
  
  December 05, 2013
  
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- Fall Concert Series Continues
  
  December 05, 2013
  
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- Dutch Masters' Process Meets Technology
  
  December 05, 2013
  
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- Product Design Takes on Drink Aide Project
  
  December 05, 2013
  
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- The Barnes’ Derek Gillman Joining the Westphal Faculty
  
  December 05, 2013
  
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- A Digital Home for Philadelphia’s Central Club
  
  December 05, 2013
  
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- "Raw to Refined" Exhibition Coming to the Pearlstein Gallery
  
  December 05, 2013
  
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- Our New Interdisciplinary Smart Initiatives Minor
  
  December 05, 2013
  
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- Derek Gillman Steps Down as Executive Director and President of The Barnes Foundation, Joins Drexel University
  
  December 04, 2013
  The Board of Trustees of the Barnes Foundation announced that Derek Gillman will be stepping down as executive director and president of the Barnes Foundation effective January 1, 2014, to become a distinguished visiting professor at Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.
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November
- Students Guests at Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia
  
  November 22, 2013
  
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- Graphic Design Brings The Nutcracker History to Life
  
  November 20, 2013
  
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- Gaming Prof. Frank Lee: Guinness World Record Holder
  
  November 20, 2013
  
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- Philadelphia Fashion Incubator Info Session
  
  November 20, 2013
  
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- The Apple Tree – Three Musicals in One
  
  November 20, 2013
  
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- Pong on Cira Centre Named Guinness World Record
  
  November 18, 2013
  The dream of Drexel associate professor Frank Lee, PhD, that came to fruition in the form of a 29-story video game — Pong — played on the north facade of Brandywine Realty Tusts’s Cira Centre is now a world record. Guinness World Records officially recognized the event, which was held on April 19 and 24 as part of Philly Tech Week, as the “largest architectural videogame display.”
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- Co-Op Theatre Company
  
  November 18, 2013
  Drexel’s new Co-op Theatre Company gives the University’s theater program its own identity and, true to Drexel’s mission, gives students real-world experience to stand out above the rest.
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- A New Exhibition Designed by Drexel Students Takes Visitors Behind the Scenes of the Pa. Ballet’s The Nutcracker
  
  November 12, 2013
  A new exhibition designed by Drexel University students takes visitors behind the curtain of one of Philadelphia’s most beloved holiday traditions, the Pennsylvania Ballet’s annual presentation of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.
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- Free Passes for Greenbuild 2013 Expo Floor
  
  November 11, 2013
  
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- Drexel Auctions off Once-in-a-Lifetime Experiences on eBay to Support the Westphal College
  
  November 08, 2013
  Five nights on a yacht in the Caribbean, a 2014 Subaru Forester, a tattoo design by ambigram artist John Langdon of "The Da Vinci Code" fame and lunch with "The Simpsons" writer Mike Reiss at the 20th Century FOX Studios in Los Angeles are just a few of the items up for auction at Drexel University’s first eBay fundraising auction.
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- Graduate Interior Design Program Recognized as One of the Best in the Nation
  
  November 08, 2013
  
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- Arts Administration Student Wins Rotary Peace Fellowship
  
  November 06, 2013
  
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- "Two-Spirit People" Explores Native American History of Gender, Sexuality
  
  November 06, 2013
  
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- Photography Students Experience Prague
  
  November 06, 2013
  
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- Drexel University, CEC Bring DanceAfrica to Philadelphia
  
  November 06, 2013
  
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- DHCC Going Digital at Winterthur
  
  November 06, 2013
  
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- Fashion Student's Holiday Cards to be Sold by National Retail Outlets
  
  November 06, 2013
  
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- 2013 High School Photography Contest Call for Entries
  
  November 06, 2013
  
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- Meet Dynamic Business Leader Nina Henderson
  
  November 06, 2013
  
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- Westphal eBay Auction Opens Nov. 14
  
  November 06, 2013
  
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- 2013 Fall Music Concert Series Preview
  
  November 06, 2013
  
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- Only Three Weeks Remain to See U.S. Debut of Contemporary Artwork from China’s Top Academy
  
  November 04, 2013
  Only three weeks remain for visitors to see an exhibition of contemporary art by top graduates from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), China’s premier art academy, at Drexel University. The exhibition, hosted by the University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, will be on display at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery in the URBN Center Annex (3401 Filbert St.) through Friday, Nov. 22. The gallery is free and open to the public Monday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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October
- Mantua Urban Peace Garden
  
  October 30, 2013
  What was once a vacant lot in West Philadelphia’s Mantua neighborhood is now a vegetable-filled garden, thanks in part to Drexel. And with more help from the University, the site may be transformed even further in the future.
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- Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Rescheduled for Nov. 6
  
  October 30, 2013
  
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- OFF CAMPUS' CW Philly Airing in the News
  
  October 28, 2013
  
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- OFF CAMPUS CW Philly
  
  October 24, 2013
  Drexel University’s student-produced sitcom OFF CAMPUS will debut its fourth season on CW Philly 57 this weekend. The show, which was recently honored by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, will air the night of Saturday, Oct. 26 at midnight.
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- Digital Media Professors Win NSF Gaming Grant
  
  October 24, 2013
  
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- Rudman Institute Welcomes The Joe Bonham Project
  
  October 24, 2013
  
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- The Science of Recording Studio Design with John Storyk
  
  October 24, 2013
  
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- Dr. Johanna Blakley: Wars on Television Nov. 5
  
  October 24, 2013
  
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- Award-Winning OFF CAMPUS Sitcom to Air on CW Philly 57
  
  October 24, 2013
  
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- Beasts of the Southern Wild Screening + Q&A with Paul Mezey
  
  October 24, 2013
  
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- An Evening With Randall Poster
  
  October 24, 2013
  
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- Godzilla Opens at Drexel on Halloween Night, Free Admission for those in Costume
  
  October 23, 2013
  This Halloween night, the Drexel Co-op Theatre Company will open its version of Yasuhiko Ohashi’s Godzilla, a campy, comic romp with the Japanese cultural icon, at the URBN Center Annex’s Black Box Theater (3401 Filbert St.). On opening night, attendees who come dressed in costume will receive free admission. The person wearing the best/most creative costume (as judged by the Godzilla production/performance crew), will receive two free passes to the upcoming production of the musical The Apple Tree, running Nov. 21 – 24.
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- Volunteers Get Free Admission To Greenbuild 2013 In Philadelphia
  
  October 17, 2013
  
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- Drexel Pilates – Body in Motion
  
  October 15, 2013
  
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- Off Campus to air on CW Philly Oct. 26
  
  October 15, 2013
  
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- Apply for a Philadelphia Fashion Incubator Residency
  
  October 09, 2013
  
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- Imaging War: New Drexel Course Explores the Way War Has Been Portrayed Through Art and Media
  
  October 08, 2013
  From the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. through current-day wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our view of war has been indelibly shaped by the images we see of the conflicts and their aftermath. A new fall course at Drexel University, entitled “Imaging War,” examines how the subject of war has been depicted in media ranging from photography to television to video games.
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- Green Building Design Research Expert Dr. Ajla Aksamija to Speak at Drexel
  
  October 07, 2013
  Green building design research expert Dr.Ajla Aksamija will join Drexel University on Thursday, Oct. 24,for a lecture entitled“Interdisciplinary Research: Building, Technology and Environment.”Head of research for the Building Technology Laboratory (Tech Lab) at international design firm Perkins+Will, Aksamija will speak about her ongoing research in high-performance buildings, building systems, innovative design approaches and emerging building technologies.
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- Drexel’s Historic Costume Collection Opens to the Public for the First Time with “Fashion Fridays”
  
  October 04, 2013
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- Imaging War with Donald Margulies
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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- Our First Fashion Friday!
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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- Frontline Territories with Susan Meiselas
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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- Design Thinking in Higher Education
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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- Arfaa Lecture Series – Architect Randall Stout
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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- China Central Academy of Fine Arts Exhibit
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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- Project Home Artists
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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- Drexel Hosts Second TEDx Talk
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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- Eternal Sunshine of a Film Producer’s Mind
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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- Register for our High School Workshops
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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- Prof. Lise Raven Presents "Kinderwald"
  
  October 03, 2013
  
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September
- Drexel Hosts U.S. Debut of Contemporary Art Exhibition from China Central Academy of Fine Arts
  
  September 27, 2013
  An exhibition of contemporary art by top graduates from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), China’s premier art academy, will make its U.S. debut at Drexel University. The exhibition, hosted by the University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, will be on display at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery in the URBN Center Annex (3401 Filbert St.) from Friday, Oct. 4 through Friday, Nov. 22.
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- African Dance Pioneer Dr. Kariamu Welsh to Demonstrate, Discuss Umfundalai Dance Technique at Drexel
  
  September 26, 2013
  Guggenheim Award-winning dance scholar and choreographer Dr. Kariamu Welsh, the creator of the African dance technique Umfundalai, will join Drexel University for a discussion and demonstration on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m.
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- Godzilla at the Black Box Theater
  
  September 23, 2013
  
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- DHCC Open to the Public for Fashion Fridays
  
  September 23, 2013
  
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- EAM Co-ops on the Fringe
  
  September 23, 2013
  
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- D&M Turns Makers into Sellers
  
  September 23, 2013
  
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- Umfundalai: A Contemporary African Dance Technique
  
  September 23, 2013
  
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- Leaders in Museum Leadership
  
  September 23, 2013
  
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- DesignPhiladelphia Festival at the URBN Center
  
  September 23, 2013
  
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- China's CAFA Brings Young Artists' Work to Pearlstein Gallery
  
  September 23, 2013
  
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- Music Industry Screens "At Fest" Folk Documentary in URBN Annex
  
  September 23, 2013
  
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- Drexel's URBN Center Recognized for Design Excellence
  
  September 18, 2013
  Drexel University’s URBN Center that opened its doors less than a year ago and houses programs for the University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design was recognized for its design excellence at the Maryland State Component of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Design Awards ceremony on Sept. 12.
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- DesignPhiladelphia Party at the URBN Center
  
  September 18, 2013
  
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- D&M Magazine Wins Two Content & Design Awards
  
  September 17, 2013
  
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- Enrollment Now Open for Award-Winning Interdisciplinary Media Course
  
  September 12, 2013
  
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- Student-Produced Sitcom 'Off Campus' Wins NATAS Crystal Pillar Award
  
  September 09, 2013
  
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- Franklin Institute President Dennis Wint Joins Drexel University’s Museum Leadership Faculty
  
  September 05, 2013
  Dennis Wint joins the faculty of the new museum leadership graduate degree program in Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.
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- Franklin Institute CEO Dennis Wint Joins Museum Leadership Program
  
  September 05, 2013
  
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- Drexel Players Present Parts: A Speed-Through as part of Philadelphia Fringe Festival
  
  September 03, 2013
  The Drexel Players return to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival from Sept. 6 – 14with Parts: A Speed-Through,an immersive theater experience conceived, produced, written and performed entirely by Drexel University students and alumni. Parts: A Speed-Through takes an inside look at the relationships that young theater artists share as they produce a fictional theater show.
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- Digital Media Student Chelsea Myers Designs Logo for MTV's Online Music Awards
  
  September 03, 2013
  
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August
- So You Want to Run a Museum?: Q&A with Danielle Rice
  
  August 29, 2013
  Danielle Rice joins Drexel in September as the director of the new Museum Leadership program in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.
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- Philadelphia Inquirer Interviews Museum Leadership Director Danielle Rice
  
  August 29, 2013
  
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- Drexel Players to Perform "Parts" at the URBN Annex
  
  August 28, 2013
  
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- Philadelphia Style Magazine Features Drexel Historic Costume Collection
  
  August 26, 2013
  
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- Rudman Institute, Pennoni Honors College Unveil New Great Works Symposium Media Course
  
  August 23, 2013
  
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- DUTV's "Off Campus" Receives Emmy Award Nomination
  
  August 22, 2013
  
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- DHCC Curator Clare Sauro Provides Fashion History Expertise to Philly Inquirer
  
  August 21, 2013
  
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- Recent Drexel Grads Check Emmy Nomination Off Goal List
  
  August 20, 2013
  Many professionals in the television and film industry spend their entire careers working toward an Emmy nomination. That accolade came early for a group of Drexel alumni recently nominated for the prestigious honor.
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- Philadelphia Geek Award Winners 2013
  
  August 19, 2013
  In a strong showing for some of Drexel University’s best and brightest, Frank Lee, an associate professor in Westphal and director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio, and undergraduate digital media student Greg Lobanov were among the winners at the 2013 Philadelphia Geek Awards.
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- Drexel Wins Big at 2013 Philly Geek Awards
  
  August 19, 2013
  
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- App Helps Visitors Explore Academy of Natural Sciences
  
  August 15, 2013
  A new student-designed mobile application helps visitors explore the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
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- Double Lives Series: Jay Rappaport Soups Up Power Wheels
  
  August 14, 2013
  Find out what the manager of Westphal's IT Department does in his free time. Hint: His creations flash and go very, very fast.
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- Webinar: The Future of TV Management and Your Place in it
  
  August 13, 2013
  
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- Student Updates Tour Schedules for Beyoncé, John Mayer at Groovy Co-op
  
  August 12, 2013
  Just planning to go to a concert can be a headache. Can you imagine what goes into planning the actual event? Diana Lease, a senior in the Music Industry program in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, is getting her very own taste as a touring and events intern at Columbia Records.
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- Delaware Art Museum Executive Director Danielle Rice Joins Drexel as Inaugural Museum Leadership Program Director
  
  August 05, 2013
  
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- Delaware Art Museum Executive Director Danielle Rice Joins Drexel as Inaugural Museum Leadership Program Director
  
  August 05, 2013
  Delaware Art Museum Executive Director Dr. Danielle Rice has been appointed director of the new museum leadership graduate degree program in Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, which will launch in September 2013.
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July
- Rocking MTV Logo!
  
  July 31, 2013
  
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- Student Rocks the Logo for MTV’s Online Music Awards
  
  July 30, 2013
  Digital media student Chelsea Myers helped design the logo for last month's MTV Online Music Awards at her co-op at Happy Cog in Philadelphia.
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- Spatial Translations Exhibit Opening and Reception
  
  July 26, 2013
  
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- Westphal's Philadelphia Geek Awards Nominations
  
  July 26, 2013
  
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- Summer High School Program Recap
  
  July 26, 2013
  
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- Graphic Design Student Helps Farmers in Thailand
  
  July 26, 2013
  
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- Dean's List Honors Spring 2013
  
  July 26, 2013
  
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- Experiences in the Urban Environment Inspire New Art Exhibition Presented with InLiquid at Drexel
  
  July 25, 2013
  From a wood and copper sculpture that explores an emotional response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, to drawings on mylar that translate walks through Manhattan into map-inspired shapes, “Spatial Translations” takes visitors on a visual journey through experiences in urban environments. The new exhibition, which features drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations by Pennsylvania and New York-based artists Annette Cords, Brent Crothers, William Cromar and Paul Fabozzi, is a collaboration between Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and Philadelphia nonprofit artist network InLiquid.
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- Drexel Students’ Concept for Harnessing Energy from Wind Tunnels Takes Them to Paris
  
  July 24, 2013
  Alexa Forney, a junior product design major in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, and Greg Yeutter, a junior majoring in electrical engineering in the College of Engineering with a minor in product design, recently created a concept for installing wind power solutions in urban settings.
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- What I’m Reading: Clare Sauro
  
  July 16, 2013
  Clare Sauro, curator of the Drexel Historic Costume Collection, is reading "Gold Digger: The Outrageous Life and Times of Peggy Hopkins Joyce" by Constance Rosenblum.
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- Adrienne-Mackey-Shakespeare-Clark-Park
  
  July 16, 2013
  Shakespeare in Clark Park is back again this summer—with a Drexel twist. Adrienne Mackey, an adjunct professor of voice and diction in the Theatre program in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, is directing “The Tempest” for SCP, a theater company that showcases free, outdoor productions of Shakespeare’s plays in West Philadelphia.
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- max-goldberg
  
  July 10, 2013
  Max Goldberg, a rising senior in the Film & Video Department in Drexel’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, works as a production intern for half of the week and as a post-production intern for the other half at CollegeHumor.com.
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- ashley-parker-roman-q-a
  
  July 10, 2013
  Ashley Parker-Roman joined the U.S. Navy when she was 17. She spent four years stationed in Norfolk, Va., onboard the SS Bataan LHD-5, and was deployed twice in the Mediterranean. That was nearly 10 years ago—the Annapolis, Md., native hasn’t stopped working hard since.
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- Drexel Professors Among 2013 Philadelphia Geek Awards Nominees
  
  July 08, 2013
  Nominees for the 2013 Philadelphia Geek Awards are in. Among the field for this year’s recognition of local ingenuity, intellect and innovation are Drexel’s Dr. Frank Lee, an associate professor in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and director of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio, and undergraduate digital media student Greg Lobanov.
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- Shakespeare's Macbeth in the Black Box Theater
  
  July 02, 2013
  
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- Drexel and UArts Collaborate on Mae Desmond Musical
  
  July 02, 2013
  
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- Ryan Schwabe's RareMP3s StartUp Mixes Ellie Goulding
  
  July 02, 2013
  
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June
- Drexel Students Design Visions of the Future
  
  June 27, 2013
  The future isn’t as hard to imagine as you might think. At least not for these six graduate students who recently completed a year-long project creating what they called “near-future speculations,” or prototypes of designs that could plausibly enter the marketplace in the next 5-10 years.
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- WKDU-DJs-Launch-New-Music-Blog
  
  June 26, 2013
  In May, the student DJs at WKDU Philadelphia 91.7 FM created a new blog, Communiqué, to accompany their radio station.
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- Design Futures Lab Exhibit at the Pearlstein Gallery
  
  June 26, 2013
  
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- SmartVCS: An Intelligent Virtual Cinematography Solution
  
  June 22, 2013
  
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- Drexel Student Designs Sustainable Urban Garden for Moore College of Art & Design
  
  June 20, 2013
  A“self-sustaining urban oasis” designed byWestphal student Alexandria Imbesi was recently implemented at Moore College of Art & Design.
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- DNEWS Wins Third Consecutive Telly Award
  
  June 19, 2013
  
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- 2013 Interior Design Senior Show Preview
  
  June 11, 2013
  
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- Graphic Design Senior Show
  
  June 11, 2013
  
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- Photography Senior Thesis Exhibition
  
  June 11, 2013
  
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- Summer High School Study Programs
  
  June 04, 2013
  
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- Senior Send Off and Graduation 2013
  
  June 04, 2013
  
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- Edinburgh, Philadelphia Exchange Artists With Dual Exhibits
  
  June 04, 2013
  
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- D&M Class Helps Non-Profits Find Visual Identity
  
  June 04, 2013
  
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- Product Design Students in Paris Competition
  
  June 04, 2013
  
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- Music Industry Takes Class to LA
  
  June 04, 2013
  
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- Motion City Soundtrack to Play Warped Tour
  
  June 04, 2013
  
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- QandA-Andrew Susskind
  
  June 03, 2013
  More and more people are turning from pricey cable television packages toward the more-affordable internet streaming. DrexelNow checked in with associate teaching professor Andrew Susskind to learn more about the fate of cable television and how it can compete against the big internet players that allow viewers to watch what they want, when they want.
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May
- Digital Media's 2013 Senior Show Preview
  
  May 30, 2013
  
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- Making Music Work - Music Technology from Concept to Consumer
  
  May 30, 2013
  
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- Gutenberg! The Musical! Opens May 30
  
  May 30, 2013
  
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- Film & Video 2013 Senior Show Preview
  
  May 30, 2013
  
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- Art, Architecture and the Apocalypse Inspire Student Designs at Drexel’s Annual Fashion Show
  
  May 24, 2013
  Inspired by a spectrum of influences, ranging from Japanese Kabuki paintings to Frank Gehry architecture to post-apocalyptic high society, collections by 24 graduating student designers will hit the runway at Drexel University’s annual senior fashion show, presented by the Fashion Design and Design & Merchandising programs in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.
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- Drexel Announces 2013 Honorary Degree Recipients
  
  May 23, 2013
  Drexel will celebrate its 126th commencement on June 14 and June 15. More than 5,000 students will receive a degree from Drexel this year and 13 honorary degrees will be distributed to prominent individuals distinguished in their fields.
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- Two Weeks Remain to See First-Ever Exhibition of Art and Archival Artifact Highlights from Drexel’s Collections
  
  May 16, 2013
  Only two weeks remain to see works of art and archival artifacts from around Drexel, displayed together for the first time in the University's history.
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- Students Produce and Perform “Riotously Funny” Two-Man Musical Comedy Gutenberg! The Musical! at Drexel
  
  May 16, 2013
  The “riotously funny” (Time Out New York) two-man musical spoof "Gutenberg! The Musical!" will take center stage in the new Black Box Theater in Drexel University’s URBN Center Annex (3401 Filbert St.) from Thursday, May 30 – Saturday, June 1 at 8 p.m.
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- Music Hack Day
  
  May 14, 2013
  A 24-hour marathon of conceptualizing, hacking and coding with the goal of designing the future of music technology will bring artists, engineers, musicians, programmers and enthusiasts from around the region to Drexel’s Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center on May 18-19. Drexel’s Music Hack Day will be the 12th such event worldwide and the first time that it has been held in Philadelphia.
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- MAD Dragon Anniversary
  
  May 13, 2013
  MAD Dragon Records, Drexel University’s student-run record label, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special concert that will take place on Friday, May 17 at The Trocadero Theater (1003 Arch St.). The show will feature a lineup of MAD Dragon artists that spans all genres and styles of music. Cheers Elephant and Hoots & Hellmouth will headline the event with special guests Kuf Knotz, Andrew Lipke & The Prospects, Matt Duke and Wild Rompit.
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- Spring Music Concerts
  
  May 09, 2013
  
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- Gaming Guru Noah Wardrip-Fruin
  
  May 09, 2013
  
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- MAD Dragon Reunion Show
  
  May 09, 2013
  
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- Dance Ensemble Spring Concerts
  
  May 09, 2013
  
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- Iraq Invasion Exhibit Opens May 15
  
  May 09, 2013
  
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- Guttenberg! The Musical!
  
  May 09, 2013
  
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- Grapes of Wrath Tickets on Sale
  
  May 09, 2013
  
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- Fourth Year Student Wins National Competition
  
  May 08, 2013
  
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- Exhibit of War Diaries and Photos from Iraq to be Displayed at Drexel
  
  May 02, 2013
  On theheels of the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, the powerful multimedia exhibit “Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq” will be on display in Drexel University’s URBN Center from Wednesday, May 15 through Thursday, May 23. The exhibit is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. (a photo ID will be required to enter the building after 3 p.m.).
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- What's In Drexel's Closets? (Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  May 02, 2013
  
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April
- Drexel Student Performance of “The Grapes of Wrath” Ties Steinbeck’s Classic Novel to Modern-Day Social Issues
  
  April 30, 2013
  John Steinbeck’s epic novel “The Grapes of Wrath” will be brought to life on an intimate new stage by students in the Department of Performing Arts inDrexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. The production, which marks the inauguration of the new Black Box Theater in the URBN Center Annex (3401 Filbert St.), opens on Friday, May 10 and will run through Saturday, May 25.
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- Diaries, Photography Form Iraq War Exhibit
  
  April 29, 2013
  
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- Grapes of Wrath, May 10-25
  
  April 29, 2013
  
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- Ken Downing Wins Westphal Award
  
  April 29, 2013
  
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- The Backyard Philly Project Puts Poverty in Perspective
  
  April 29, 2013
  
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- Fashion Alum Ou Lin Honored
  
  April 29, 2013
  
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- Westphal @ Research Day
  
  April 29, 2013
  
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- Todd Solondz, Soul of Suburban Satire
  
  April 29, 2013
  
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- Neiman Marcus Fashion Director Ken Downing to Receive Westphal Award at Drexel
  
  April 26, 2013
  Fashion visionary Ken Downing, the senior vice president and fashion director of American luxury department store Neiman Marcus, will be presented with the second annual Westphal Award from Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. The award ceremony will take place Wednesday, May 1 at 6 p.m. at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery in the URBN Center Annex (3401 Filbert St.). This event is free and open to the public.
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- The History of Philadelphia’s Watersheds and Sewers
  
  April 18, 2013
  
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- The Backyard Philly Project
  
  April 16, 2013
  
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- Grapes of Wrath
  
  April 16, 2013
  
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- Green Initiatives
  
  April 16, 2013
  
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- Hightlights Exhibit Feature
  
  April 15, 2013
  For the first time in Drexel’s history, works of art and archival artifacts from across the University are being exhibited together during A Legacy of Art, Science & Industry: Highlights from the Collections of Drexel University.
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- Vote Now
  
  April 15, 2013
  
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- When American Fashion Conquered Paris
  
  April 15, 2013
  
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- College News
  
  April 15, 2013
  
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- Highlights of the Drexel Collection
  
  April 15, 2013
  
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- Westphal Moving Pictures
  
  April 15, 2013
  
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- Dead End: The Influence of the PC on Player Emotional State & Actions
  
  April 13, 2013
  
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- Developing Visual Narrative
  
  April 13, 2013
  
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- Art Directed Visual Complexity Through Smart Textures
  
  April 13, 2013
  
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- D&M Hosts Brooks Brothers President Diane Ellis
  
  April 10, 2013
  
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- Drexel Celebrates Grand Opening of New URBN Center for Arts and Design on April 12
  
  April 09, 2013
  Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design celebrates its new home, The URBN Center, with a grand opening on April 12. Called “one of Philadelphia's most thrilling new designs” by The Philadelphia Inquirer’s architecture critic Inga Saffron, the iconic 3501 Market Street building created by Robert Venturi was transformed into a state-of-the-art center for design and the arts by the noted design firm of Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, LTD.
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- Monkey Film Premieres to Promote African Biodiversity
  
  April 09, 2013
  Turtle biologists with digital SLR cameras may be on the verge of something extraordinary: Empowering a nation to save endangered monkeys and the idyllic island ecosystem they call home. The very unusual nature documentary the biologists produced will have its U.S. premiere at Drexel University on April 15.
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- Celebrated Journalist Bob Dotson
  
  April 09, 2013
  
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- Robin Klehr Avia’s New Currency of Space
  
  April 09, 2013
  
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- Performance Charette
  
  April 07, 2013
  
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- Festival of Classic Indian Raga Music
  
  April 06, 2013
  
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- First-Ever Exhibition of Art and Archival Artifact Highlights from Drexel’s Collections to go on Display April 12
  
  April 04, 2013
  For the first time in Drexel’s history, the most treasured works of art and archival artifacts from around the University will be exhibited together during A Legacy of Art, Science & Industry: Highlights from the Collections of Drexel University, opening April 12.
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- Critically Acclaimed Fashion Documentary “Versailles ’73” to Screen at Drexel April 18
  
  April 04, 2013
  A screening of the critically acclaimed documentary film“Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution,” which explores a moment that changed the course of fashion history, will take place at Drexel University on Thursday, April 18 at 6 p.m.
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- Drexel Professor to Transform Cira Centre into Classic Arcade Game
  
  April 03, 2013
  The video game that started them all will come to life on Philadelphia’s largest array of LEDs in a visual spectacle on April 19, when the Cira Centre’s 83,360-square-foot, north-facing wall will be transformed into the classic arcade game Pong to open festivities of the third annual Philly Tech Week.
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March
- Bob Dotson event
  
  March 29, 2013
  NBC News Correspondent Bob Dotson has travelled over four million miles tracking down stories for the American public. On April 9, the award-winning reporter’s travels will bring him to Philadelphia as the honored guest at the 2013 Kal and Lucille Rudman Media Seminar. Dotson, who is the creator of the Today Show series’ “The American Story with Bob Dotson,” will share stories about the incredible people he has met along his journey.
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- Architecture and Interior Design Student Competition for Summer Internship
  
  March 28, 2013
  
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- promaxbda PRESENTS: The Best of Television Marketing, Promotion & Design
  
  March 25, 2013
  
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- Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers
  
  March 20, 2013
  
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- Screening of Latter Days
  
  March 20, 2013
  
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- MAD Dragon Receives 5 IMA Nominations
  
  March 20, 2013
  
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- An Evening with Bob Dotson
  
  March 20, 2013
  
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- D&M Distinguished Speaker
  
  March 20, 2013
  
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- New Department Head of Media Arts
  
  March 20, 2013
  
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- New Music Program Director
  
  March 20, 2013
  
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- Top Rankings for Drexel Gaming
  
  March 20, 2013
  
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- TechCamp Philadelphia
  
  March 20, 2013
  
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- QandA-Allen Sabinson
  
  March 13, 2013
  Gov. Tom Corbett recently rejected a request from actor Bradley Cooper to shoot a film in Philadelphia due to the city's exhaustion of its film tax credits for 2012-13. DrexelNow checked in with Westphal Dean Allen Sabinson to find out more about the implications of this decision and the story behind Pennsylvania's film tax credit program.
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- Sustainability Business Course
  
  March 13, 2013
  LeBow College of Business is preparing its students to excel in the eco-conscious business world, with new courses focused on sustainability.
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- GDUSA Graphic Design Awards 2011
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- International Design Competition
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- Concert Band
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- Fusion Band & Rock Ensemble
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- Jazz Orchestra at Clef Club
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- All-College Choir and Orchestra
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- What's a Charette?
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- Pops of Color at d&mShop
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- Mediterranean & Guitar Ensembles
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- University Chorus
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- URBN Renewal: April 12
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- Winning Plans
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- Museum Leadership
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- 418 Open House
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- Percussion Ensemble
  
  March 07, 2013
  
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- New Drexel University Graduate Program Will Prepare Students for Museum Leadership
  
  March 05, 2013
  A new graduate program offered by Drexel’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design will prepare students for leadership roles in museums across the country and around the world.
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February
- Research Day 2013
  
  February 21, 2013
  
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- Wangechi Mutu
  
  February 21, 2013
  
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- Memory of Everything
  
  February 21, 2013
  
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- Americans for the Arts
  
  February 21, 2013
  
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- Making Indie Films
  
  February 21, 2013
  
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- Mantua Theater Project
  
  February 21, 2013
  
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- Wangechi Mutu Exhibit
  
  February 20, 2013
  Westphal's Joseph Gregory shares the inspiration behind the new exhibit opening this weekend at Drexel, featuring the work of African artist Wangechi Mutu, "one of the most original and respected African artists on the contemporary art scene."
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- Nina Henderson Challenge
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Westphest
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Mutu at Pearlstein Gallery
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Joanne Landis
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Madrigal Dinner
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Art Auction
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Book Art
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Evening of African American Music
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Gifts for Your Sweetie
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Once a Gym, Now a Dance Studio
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Ghana Dance & Percussion
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Digital Advertising
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- To Fool The Eye
  
  February 20, 2013
  
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- Actor and Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson Visits Drexel for a Film Screening and Discussion
  
  February 15, 2013
  Film, television and Tony Award-winning theater actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson will visit Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design on Monday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. for a screening and discussion about his film Lackawanna Blues, during Black History Month. The event is free and open to the public, and will take place in the Bossone Research Center's Mitchell Auditorium (3140 Market St.).
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- Museum Leadership Conference 2013
  
  February 01, 2013
  
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January
- Drexel and 1812 Productions Team Up to Present "To Fool the Eye"
  
  January 24, 2013
  Drexel University and Philadelphia theater company 1812 Productions have partnered together to present Jeffrey Hatcher’s comedy confection To Fool The Eye, an adaptation of the romantic comedy Léocadia by Jean Anouilh, as part of Drexel's Mandell Professionals in Residence Project (MPiRP).
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- Award-Winning Graphic Designers
  
  January 24, 2013
  
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- Bioko Co-op
  
  January 23, 2013
  Many fashion design students hope to visit Paris or Milan. Senior Amy Stoltzfus wanted something different. So, she went to Bioko Island.
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- Sustainability Minor
  
  January 23, 2013
  The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design recently launched a new minor intended to meet a growing demand from architecture and interiors students looking for more in-depth knowledge and content related to sustainable design.
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- Architecture Group Mentoring Program
  
  January 23, 2013
  
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- Provocative Kenyan-Born Artist Wangechi Mutu Exhibits Work At Drexel, Feb 15 - Mar 30
  
  January 16, 2013
  Next month, the work of provocative Kenyan-born, Brooklyn-based artist Wangechi Mutu will be featured as the inaugural exhibition in Drexel's newly expanded Leonard Pearlstein Gallery.
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- Senior Shows
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- Producing Indie Films
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- Winter Dance Concerts
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- Save the Date: Party at URBN
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- Creating with Constraints
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- Completing the URBN Center
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- America's All-Comedy Theater Company
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- Indie Giant
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- Daring Feminist Artist to Open New Pearlstein Gallery
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- Diane Ellis, Brooks Brothers COO
  
  January 16, 2013
  
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- What Im Reading-Michael Glaser
  
  January 14, 2013
  Assistant professor Michael Glaser had low expectations when he picked up After the Future by Franco Berardi. Now he's racing to finish it.
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