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November 18, 2022
Global Give Back Circle was founded by Drexel alum, Linda Latsko Lockhart ’78, in 2005 with the mission to empower adolescent girls living in Kenya to become future leaders in their communities. A ten-month long program for post-high school women, HER Lab provides participants with education, mentors, resources, career opportunities, and pathways to higher education programs, scholarships, and loans with the goal of combatting the harmful cultural practices prevalent in rural Kenyon communities that keep women in the margins.
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November 17, 2022
As an engineering student, you have countless opportunities to experience first-hand what being a professional engineer will be like once your graduate. You work in engineering design classes to create prototypes.
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September 08, 2022
Drexel University was honored to welcome 25 Mandela Washington Fellowship alumni, the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative(YALI), to campus for a two-week Alumni Enrichment Institute from July 25 through August 5, 2022 sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
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August 12, 2022
"MXenes: Addressing Global Challenges with Innovation" is expected to convene about 200 in-person researchers, students, investors and policymakers, along with hundreds more virtual attendees across the world, to discuss basic research problems and future applications for the novel two-dimensional materials.
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July 11, 2022
Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics (CCI) is pleased to announce that Professor Denise Agosto, PhD has received a 2022 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in information science for the 2022-23 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
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June 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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June 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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June 06, 2022
DNI Visiting Researcher and Schlumberger Faculty for the Future Fellow, Ndeye Maty Ndiaye, was awarded a L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women...
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May 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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