september

Drexel’s School of Public Health Receives Transformative $45 Million Gift from Dana and David Dornsife

September 30, 2015

Drexel University’s School of Public Health has been named the Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health in honor of a transformative $45 million gift from longtime philanthropists Dana and David Dornsife widely known for their humanitarian efforts. The couple has donated a total of $58 million to the University.

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The Most Popular Tweets, Posts and Shares of the Month — September 2015

September 30, 2015

Share in the excitement of the brand-new school year with the Drexel community's best posts of the month.

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Behind the Scenes at Pope Weekend

September 30, 2015

An online graduate student in Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health Professions used her deployment with the American Red Cross for the papal visit as an opportunity for the intense, on-the-job application of what she’s learned.

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Heard Around Campus: September 2015

September 29, 2015

The school year has officially begun. Check out anything you may have missed in all the excitement — like the new provost's first University-wide announcement or the success of Welcome Week.

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Drexel Board of Trustees Appoints New Members

September 29, 2015

Drexel University has appointed five new members to its Board of Trustees.

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Financial Fitness Series Back — In Two Parts

September 22, 2015

By popular demand, the Financial Fitness Series hosted by A Healthier U and the Franklin Mint Federal Credit Union is back and expanded.

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Celebrating A.J.'s 189th

September 21, 2015

Hundreds of students turned out to don fake mustaches and scarf down some ice cream in celebration of the 189th birthday of Drexel's founder.

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Drexel Medicine Faculty Member Needs Votes to be Philly Health Hero

September 18, 2015

For her work in the community to decrease the stigma of HIV and hepatitis C, Drexel College of Medicine’s Stacey Trooskin is up for an annual award from Philadelphia Magazine, but she needs help.

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Convocation 2015: Making This Drexel’s ‘Best Year Ever’

September 17, 2015

At the ceremonial start to the 2015–16 school year, keynote speaker Youngmoo Kim told those gathered that all signs point to this being Drexel’s finest year.

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Travel Through Time With These Photos of Drexel’s Campus

September 16, 2015

Ever wondered what Drexel’s campus looked like in the ‘60s? How about the ‘80s? Spot the differences between the University campus of yesterday and today in these photos from the Drexel University Archives.

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Drexel Establishes Co-op Research Center With Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

September 16, 2015

Quality materials, reliable tools and talented artisan are the key ingredients of any successful workshop. When it comes to making electronics components and energy storage devices, discoveries emerge when new materials are used in advanced fabrication techniques. Students from Drexel University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology will soon be in the presence of both. A co-op partnership with Korea’s National Research Foundation will give the students a chance to apply their talents in the nanofabrication center frequented by companies like Samsung and Hyundai, using the latest nanomaterials developed by Drexel’s materials scientists.

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Drexel and Penn Join White House Smart Cities Initiative

September 15, 2015

Experts from Drexel University and The University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research will join others from cities around the country as participants in a White House initiative to make universities and their host municipalities partners in using technology to solve the challenges that face our nation’s growing urban areas.

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In Photos: Move-In Day 2015

September 14, 2015

Check out the sights and celebration of Drexel's new student move-in day from this weekend.

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Diagnosing 'Sick' Buildings to Save Energy

September 09, 2015

Are you feeling too cold right now? Too warm? Is your office's air a little stale today? On average, Americans spend 90 percent of the day indoors, in a controlled environment. Controlling that environment, at least in the workplace, is the Sisyphean labor of building operators. “Operating” a building requires not only striking the perfect balance between heating, cooling and ventilation, but also repairing and maintaining all of the equipment and systems that allow this magical equilibrium to exist. Endlessly pushing a boulder up a hill might actually be less work. As part of a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers from Drexel University are working on a cloud-based data analysis tool that could help consolidate these labors while also spotting undetected problems that lead to wasted energy and poor indoor environmental quality.

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As Demand for African Timber Soars, Birds Pay the Ultimate Price

September 08, 2015

A new study co-authored by scientists at Drexel University reveals the devastating impact of illegal logging on bird communities in the understory layer of Ghana’s Upper Guinea rain forests, one of the world's 25 “biodiversity hotspots."

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Welcoming New Dragons to Drexel

September 03, 2015

To help welcome Drexel’s newest students to campus and familiarize them with Philadelphia, the University is hosting a new Welcome Week.

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Drexel's Image-Tracking Technology Allows Scientists to Observe Nature vs. Nurture in Neural Stem Cells

September 03, 2015

One of the longstanding debates in science, that has, perhaps unsurprisingly, permeated into the field of stem cell research, is the question of nature versus nurture influencing development. Science on stem cells thus far, has suggested that, as one side of the existential debate holds: their fate is not predestined. But new research from the Neural Stem Cell Institute and Drexel University's College of Engineering suggests that the cells’ tabula might not be as rasa as we have been led to believe.

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