2013

August
- Dont Wash Your Chicken Video Vignettes Make Cooking Safer
  
  August 19, 2013
  Drexel food safety researchers have helped develop a new educational campaign to raise awareness that washing raw poultry prior to cooking risks spreading bacteria, without any benefit of removing or killing them.
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July
- Grad Student Helps Peers Strengthen Teaching Skills
  
  July 01, 2013
  When grad student Mitchell D'Rozario noticed his fellow teaching assistants struggling to be prepared to teach classes, he created workshops to help them strengthen their skills.
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June
- Co-op Profile-Victor Fiore
  
  June 24, 2013
  Some students are lucky if they can work part time or full time at their co-op once it is finished, but biology major Victor Fiore is planning on spending all three co-ops, as well as the time in between, as a dental intern.
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May
- Grad Student Profile Vlad Ratushny
  
  May 31, 2013
  College of Medicine grad student Vlad Ratushny enjoyed the sweet success of graduation last month after eight long years in the combined MD–PhD program.
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April
- Drexel at Philadelphia Science Festival and Philly Tech Week
  
  April 16, 2013
  As part of city’s vibrant scientific and technological community, Drexel University will play a big role in the 2013 Philadelphia Science Festival and Philly Tech Week on April 18-28. From a 29-story video game, to cutting-edge robotics, to an interactive Jazz concert, Drexel’s students, faculty and professional staff will be part of the programming for both week-long celebrations of the inquisitive and innovative spirits that are part of the fabric of the city.
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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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March
- New Fossil from a Fish-Eat-Fish World Driving the Evolution of Limbed Animals
  
  March 27, 2013
  Scientists from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University have described another new lobe-finned fossil fish species from the same time and place in the Canadian Arctic as the famous precursor to limbed animals, Tiktaalik roseae, which they discovered several years ago.
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- Making Axons Branch and Grow to Help Nerve Regeneration After Injury
  
  March 22, 2013
  Drexel researchers are a step closer to understanding how nerve cells are repaired at their farthest reaches after injury. Their findings were recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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January
- QandA-Binge Drinking
  
  January 16, 2013
  One in eight women in the U.S. participates in binge drinking, according to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. DrexelNow asked Drexel professor Taylor Anderson about the results of the CDC report and how the effects of binge drinking are unique to women.
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- BEES Natural History Collections Course
  
  January 14, 2013
  A new course for freshmen this winter term showcases one of the most fundamental components of biology and environmental science: natural history collections.
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