Career Development Awards are designed to help faculty increase their exposure to colleagues at other institutions who can be collaborators and role models while introducing outside scholars to faculty at Drexel. Social networks are increasingly important and funding agencies are increasingly interested in projects that demonstrate multi-investigator, interdisciplinary endeavors. Building such a team, and developing a history of working together, can be invaluable for junior faculty or mid-career faculty moving in a more collaborative direction or beginning a new research area. This program provides funding for Drexel faculty to develop networks, nationally or internationally, with colleagues whose work complements activities at Drexel. For more information please visit the Career Development Awards Overview page.

The awardees for Academic Year 2011-2012 were:

• Brian P. Daly, Ph.D.
  College of Arts and Sciences
  "The Prevention of Behavioral and Socio-Emotional Problems Among At-Risk,
  Minority Youth in School-Based Settings"
• Vibha Kalra, Ph.D.
  College of Engineering
  "Nanotechnology: Current Status and Future Solutions for Alternate Energy"
• Elizabeth T. Papish, Ph.D.
  College of Arts and Sciences
  "Bioinorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Seminars to Discuss "Big Picture" Issues:
  Green Chemistry and Bioinspired Catalysis"
• Gail L. Rosen, Ph.D.
  College of Engineering
  "Metagenomics Eastern Consortium: Integrating Expertise and Resources"
• Loni Philip Tabb, Ph.D.
  Drexel University School of Public Health
  "Mentoring Biostatisticians While Developing New Methods for Functional Neuroimaging"
• Donald F. Tibbs, J.D., Ph.D., LL.M.
  Earle Mack School of Law
  "Hip Hop and the American Constitution: Critical Learning, Pedagogy,
  and Interpretation of American Law"