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Drexel's graduate studies provide an interdisciplinary educational experience within a collaborative environment that encourages the sharing of knowledge and ideas. This is a place that will not only help you to develop your own skills but will allow you to join with leaders outside of your expertise to explore the boundaries of what can be achieved.

This collective spirit of collaboration allows our Dragons to push further and apply concepts and theories in ways never before considered. Every day, Drexel's graduate community is discovering new concepts, methodologies, and breakthroughs that move the world forward.

Our work produces extraordinary results across all disciplines, as you'll see in the stories below. No matter what your field of study may be, our unique model of learning will prepare you to shape the future. The next generation of leadership begins here.

Drexel Introduces Repository of Virtual Reality Content to Enhance Online Education

Utilizing new technology applications, the University is working with 3Dream Studios to create rich and immersive learning experiences for online students.

A Partnership with Purpose

In partnership with the School District of Philadelphia, Drexel's School of Education is working to find new ways to prepare educators for the challenges of special education classrooms.

Teaching Engineers How to Build Peace

Successful engineers have a unique set of skills. How could those skills prove valuable when attempting to evaluate or avert global crises?

Psyche and the City

Can a massive initiative to provide mental illness literacy training to 100,000 Philadelphia workers and residents teach our communities to be kinder?

The Story of No. 9349298

Developing a great idea is only the first step. Sometimes, pushing that idea forward is even more challenging.

New Applications

Drexel and Chemical Heritage Foundation Mix Artifacts with Mobile Gaming to Create History of Alchemy Experience

What if mobile gaming could be used as a teaching tool to make learning an enjoyable and interactive experience?

The Drexel Collection's New Exhibit Highlights Art at the Nanoscale

Beauty is all around us. This engaging exhibit showcases breathtaking imagery resulting from a unique combination of design, science, and research.

Marking Wetlands Day with an Engineered Approach

How often do you consider the implications and effects of water runoff in urban areas? This holiday not only encourages you to do so more often, it asks you to consider how we can manage it more effectively.

Of Hippocratic Oaths and Antidotes of Hippocratic Oaths and Antidotes

The opioid epidemic in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, along with other areas across the U.S., is growing worse each day. The Drexel Naloxone Outreach Project (NOP) is allowing students to make a positive impact at the ground level.

Sing with Me, Sing for the Years

Learn how the power of music therapy can help patients fight back against the slow creep of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and other forms of memory degeneration.

Meet a Drexel Student Who Used Her Clinical Psychology Education to Combat Suffering of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Violence and suffering has effects that are not always easy to see or, in some cases, even acknowledge. Following a drive to make a difference for trauma survivors, Mona Elgohail’s journey has taken her to the other side of the world.

A Creative Approach to Teaching Creativity, Interdisciplinary Teamwork for Graduate Students

Learn more about some of the strategies, techniques, and methodologies used to teach Drexel graduate students how they can harness their creativity and think outside of the box.

New Discoveries

Lab-Grown Neurons Improve Breathing in Rats After Spinal Cord Injury

For many patients, a devastating spinal cord injury could mean a lifetime of reliance on a ventilator to breathe. Researchers from Drexel University College of Medicine and the University of Texas are working together in hopes of changing that.

Will People Eat Relish Made From Waste?

American households collectively throw away an estimated 80 billion pounds of food each year. These researchers are looking for methods to repurpose this waste in appetizing ways.

'Non-Smoking' Doesn't Mean Smoke-Free — Drexel Study Finds Third-Hand Smoke Spreads Inside

Everyone knows cigarette smoke is persistent, pervasive, and dangerous. But research shows it may be even more difficult to avoid than previously thought.

What Makes Some People Creative And Others Analytical?

It has long-since believed that the key to understanding another person's perspective is learning "how they think." Researchers from Drexel University's Creativity Research Lab are doing just that.

Without 46 Million Year Old Bacteria, Turtle Ants Would Need More Bite And Less Armor

The evolution of a species relies on a wide variety of internal and external factors to arrive at specific developmental points. Recent studies show that these ants have been influenced in a most unexpected way.