2021 | Drexel Engineering

- Drexel University Announces 2021 Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients
 
 May 24, 2021
 The speakers and honorary degree recipients addressing graduating Dragons this year are well-known and respected in their various fields, and several have deep, longstanding ties to Drexel.
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- Study: Parks Not Only Safe, but Essential During the Pandemic
 
 May 12, 2021
 Parks played an important role for people seeking respite from the toll of social isolation during the pandemic, and according to new research from Drexel University, they did so without increasing the spread of COVID-19. The study looked at how people used 22 parks in Philadelphia and New York during the height of the pandemic and it found no strong correlation between park use and the number of confirmed cases in surrounding neighborhoods.
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- Drexel Names New Computing Cluster After Historic Alumna
 
 April 29, 2021
 Picotte, the University’s high-performing computing equipment, is named for Susan La Flesche Picotte, MD, who is believed to be the first Native American physician in the U.S.
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- Medical Device Startup Nephria Bio to Use Drexel's MXene Filter Material in Wearable Artificial Kidney Technology
 
 April 29, 2021
 Drexel University’s MXene material is one step closer to transforming the lives of people suffering from end-stage kidney disease. Nephria Bio, Inc., a U.S.-based spin-off of the South Korean medical device company EOFlow Co., Ltd., has signed a licensing agreement with the University to use the two-dimensional material, discovered at Drexel, as a filter in a wearable artificial kidney device it is developing. The technology could allow many of the millions of people suffering from end-stage kidney disease worldwide to move more freely, without spending hours each week anchored to large dialysis machines.
  
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- 2021 Global Research Symposium: International Solutions for A Global Crisis
 
 April 20, 2021
 The University’s “Climate Year: Global Research Symposium” brought together Drexel faculty and international partners to present and discuss ways of studying, addressing and combatting climate change.
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- Drexel Helps to Establish First Trade Association for Expanding Research, Development and Commercial Use of MXene Materials
 
 April 19, 2021
 A decade after Drexel University researchers made the pathbreaking discovery of a family of versatile, two-dimensional materials, which they dubbed MXenes, the University is helping to establish a global trade association for researchers, manufacturers and companies that are working with the materials. Called the MXene Association, it will serve as the professional body to establish standards and best practices, connect researchers and corporations and promote the research and development involving the materials.
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- Drexel Added to University Climate Change Coalition
 
 April 02, 2021
 The University will work with partner North American institutions of higher education to address and advance climate action through research, partnerships and other collaborations.
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- Faculty Highlights: Recent Grants and Awards
 
 February 17, 2021
 This update offers a snapshot of recent activity, including Miriam Giguere, PhD, head of the Department of Performing Arts and professor in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, who was awarded a $400,000 grant to create a citywide music-based project.
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- COVID Campus: How It Feels to Be Back for Dragons
 
 February 01, 2021
 DrexelNow spoke with undergraduate students on campus about this phase of Drexel University’s reopening, including health and safety protocols for residence halls and in-person learning, making new friends and staying connected, and their advice and hopes for the near future. 
 
 
  
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- Drexel Deans Look Back at 2020 — Part Two
  
  January 15, 2021
  In a second installment, six more deans from the University’s colleges and schools reflect on what happened and what they’ve learned.
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