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- Construction Notice: Major Third-Party Developments Have Begun on Campus
  
  January 19, 2023
  
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- A New, Old Look for Main Building’s Ceiling
  
  February 16, 2022
  
  After a recently completed renovation project, the interior of the Great Court looks completely different to modern audiences yet would be familiar to those who were at Drexel during its early years.
  
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- Drexel’s Environmental Collaboratory Will Solve Environmental Problems With a Community-Driven and Justice-Centered Approach
  
  February 10, 2022
  
  The Environmental Collaboratory aims to transform the historic asymmetric power dynamics of environmental challenges by facilitating co-designed, transdisciplinary solutions through partnerships with community leaders, nonprofits organizations, corporations and government agencies — locally, nationally and globally.
  
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- Drexel Aims for the Next Level of STARS With Sustainability Reporting
  
  February 04, 2022
  
  Using takeaways from the recently completed Climate Year and previous institutional sustainability metrics, the University is working to improve its score for the national Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS).
  
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- Drexel Unveils ‘Museum of Where We Are’ Exhibition of Design History Students’ Work
  
  January 03, 2022
  
  Since the beginning of the pandemic, “ARTH 300: The History of Modern Design” students have been cultivating the beauty and meaning from everyday objects. That work is now on display on Drexel’s University City Campus and a half a world away thanks to new collaborators abroad.
  
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- How Drexel Students Are Prepping, De-stressing for the First Finals Week Back
  
  December 06, 2021
  
  This week marks the first fully in-person finals week since fall 2019. Undergraduate students hanging around campus on Dec. 3 explained how they’re preparing and how they plan to celebrate afterward.
  
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- StartUp Fest: A Win for the Entrepreneurial Community
  
  November 29, 2021
  
  Pitching his AI-driven marketing app at StartUp Fest 2021 presented fourth-year student Basil Khan with a chance to help entrepreneurs everywhere.
  
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- Drexel Hosts First COP Event, Sends Delegation to COP26
  
  November 22, 2021
  
  Though the University has observed the United Nations climate conference since 2015, this was the first time that it cohosted an event at the international gathering, which 11 Dragons attended in 2021.
  
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- After the 2020 Protests, Let’s Reimagine Urban Green Space as a Way to Promote Social Justice
  
  November 17, 2021
  
  There is a growing recognition that social justice is also environmental justice and health justice. Those goals can all be achieved in the redesign of physical spaces, writes College of Engineering Professor Franco Montalto, PhD, in this “Rebuilding Philly” essay.
  
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- Pandemic Learnings Inform Hybrid Model for 2021 StartUp Fest
  
  November 01, 2021
  
  Organizers of the premiere annual entrepreneurship event hosted by the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship explain why the 2021 StartUp Fest will be more immersive, accessible, and alumni-oriented than years past while still highlighting the student startup ecosystem at Drexel.
  
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