2024

- Faculty Highlights: Recent Awards and Grants
  
  August 30, 2024
  
  Last term, Drexel University faculty members were recognized for their scholarly research and prolific academic and professional contributions. This update offers a snapshot of activity courtesy of the Office of the Provost.
  
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- Boosting the Breadth of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Research Consortium
  
  August 27, 2024
  
  Seven Drexel disciplines have joined the consortium partnership between Drexel and Thomas Jefferson University. The cancer center recently received the elite “comprehensive cancer center” designation from the National Cancer Institute, a vote of confidence in the consortium’s broadly interdisciplinary approach.
  
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- Dragons on Fire: Kudos for Student Achievements: Summer 2024
  
  August 26, 2024
  
  Here's a snapshot of awards, scholarships, publications and fellowships Drexel University students have earned in the past term.
  
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- Looking for Clues About Your Real Age? Your Grandparents’ Education May Offer Some Insight.
  
  August 26, 2024
  
  Eating well, exercising and attending regular doctor appointments can support a long healthy life, but a new study identified one possible factor beyond our control: whether you had a grandparent who went to college. The study, from researchers at Drexel University and colleagues from the University of California and the University of North Carolina, was recently published in the journal Social Science and Medicine.
  
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- Warning Signs: National Data Indicate that Autistic Birthing People Are at Increased Risk for Postpartum Anxiety and Depression
  
  August 15, 2024
  
  Researchers from Drexel University’s Policy and Analytics Center in the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute examined Medicaid data to identify perinatal and postpartum outcomes among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism.
  
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- Drexel University Receives Funding from Manufacturing PA Training-to-Career Grant for Job Training for Pennsylvanians with Disabilities
  
  August 01, 2024
  
  Drexel University’s Transition Pathways at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, Goodwin College of Professional Studies and other Philadelphia partners will develop manufacturing job training programs and help jobseekers with disabilities obtain employment with funding from the Manufacturing PA Training-to-Career Grant.
  
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- High Schoolers Attend Fourth Annual Public Health Summer Institute at Dornsife
  
  July 29, 2024
  
  Dornsife welcomed rising junior and senior high schoolers for the fourth annual Public Health Summer Institute to explore college life and learn about future career paths.
  
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- Dornsife Researchers to Lead Evaluation Efforts of the Philly Joy Bank, a Community-Driven Guaranteed Income Program
  
  June 27, 2024
  
  To determine whether and how Philly Joy Bank, a community-driven guaranteed income program, impacts birth outcomes and other related health outcomes researchers at Dornsife are conducting an evaluation study of the program.
  
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- Partnerships and Projects: Drexel’s Recent Industry and Civic Engagement Connections
  
  June 18, 2024
  
  The University created a variety of new opportunities for industry and local partnerships as well as civic engagement.
  
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- Dornsife SPH Magazine Vol. 24 Spotlights Community-Level Research
  
  June 11, 2024
  
  The new issue features a sample of exciting community-level projects at our School that aim to address foundational causes of health inequities.
  
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