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 2019-2020 are:

• Jessica Chou, PhD, LPC
  Counseling and Family Therapy, College of Nursing and Health Professions
  "Understanding the Role and Impact of Family-Based Therapies in Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities"
• Vincent Duclos, PhD
  Global Studies and Modern Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
  "Life in Data: Biomedicine in Times of Digital Precision"
• Nada Matta, PhD
  Global Studies and Modern Languages, College of Arts and Sciences
  "Inter-Class Openings in Mass Revolt: Egypt and Jordan in Comparative Perspective"
• Allison Groves, PhD
  Community Health and Prevention, Dornsife School of Public Health
  "Examining the association between return to school and sexual health outcomes among adolescent mothers in South Africa"
• Ahmad Najafi, PhD
  Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, College of Engineering
  "Mentorship Proposal to Develop a Topology Optimization-based Bioinspired Design Approach"