06/16/2022
When people think of their childhood, they often remember their time spent outside. For many of us, that looked like wading in creeks, playing outdoor games like tag and baseball, riding bikes and finding fireflies. For Akilah Chatman, BS environmental science, every day was a new adventure: climbing waterfalls, jumping from cliffs, exploring rainforests, befriending frogs and lizards, inspecting flora, gardening with their mother and so much more. Their grandparents’ beachfront restaurant offered ample time for Chatman to learn the ways of seaside life—catching fish, frying them—and between their two homes in Jamaica and Florida, they essentially grew up outside. Now, as a Drexel alum and Fulbright Fellow, Chatman is about to begin their next journey—to create and uplift a new green space in Cambodia.
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06/16/2022
One might expect a written exam to wrap up their class for the quarter. But students in Celeste Dolores Mann’s Spanish 410 course—Performing Spanish: Proficiency Through the Arts—had to think outside the box for their final. Rather, they had to use the box, sourcing cardboard for their projects.
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05/18/2022
At 9 a.m. on a Tuesday last fall, Catharine Schneider had eaten breakfast, charged her phone, looked at her notes and joined her classmates for a 1.5-hour marathon breakout session on Zoom to discuss Philadelphia’s social structures. At 3 p.m. and nearly 4,000 miles away, Imme Dros, a public administration student at Hogeschool van Amsterdam, also dialogued on the same Zoom call with students about the various agents of justice the Netherlands capital employs to support a healthy community ecosystem. The two were enrolled in Just Cities, a classroom partnership between Drexel and the Hogeschool designed to incorporate a global dimension to a course on social justice policies in Philadelphia and Amsterdam.
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