2022

- Spanish Course Brings Latin American Activism To Campus With "Drexel Cartonera: Memorias Al Carton"
  
  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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- Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Ndeye Maty Ndiaye, Wins L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for her research in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
  Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Ndeye Maty Ndiaye, Wins L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for her research in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
  Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Ndeye Maty Ndiaye, Wins L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for her research in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
  Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Ndeye Maty Ndiaye, Wins L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for her research in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
  Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Ndeye Maty Ndiaye, Wins L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for her research in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
  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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- The Just Cities Global Classroom
  
  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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- Three Drexel Professors to Support Exchange in Israel as JNF Faculty Fellows
  
  May 17, 2022
  
  Three Drexel professors have been selected to participate in a two-week academic exchange in Israel this May and June, fully funded by the Jewish National Fund – USA (JNF-USA). Jennifer Adams, EdD, associate professor in the School of Education (SoE), Tamara Galoyan, PhD, assistant research professor in SoE, and Caroline Schauer, PhD, Margaret C. Burns Chair in Engineering and associate dean for research and faculty affairs in the College of Engineering, were among 33 faculty members from 26 institutions to be named JNF Faculty Fellows.
  
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- What International Fulbrights Can Do at Drexel
  
  May 13, 2022
  
  A.I. drug development…SARS-CoV-2 research…comparative autism studies… Three international scholars from Brazil and Pakistan share how Drexel opened doors to research and professional opportunities not available in their home countries.
  
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- From Mandela to the World
  
  April 27, 2022
  
  By Muhammad Saddiq Ahmad, Co-Founder/CEO at Rural Health Mission Nigeria, Mandela Washington Fellowship, 2018
  
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- Mandela Washington Fellowship Collaborations Continue: Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund
  April 22, 2022
  
  For the last five years, Drexel University has welcomed recipients of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship program of the U.S. Department of State’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), to prepare young and engaged citizen leaders to take on the challenges of the 21st century.
  
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- AgeWell Collaboratory Funded Seven Pilot Grants Across Drexel Community
  
  April 22, 2022
  
  In January 2022, the AgeWell Collaboratory at Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health Professions funded seven $10,000 pilot grants within the Drexel community to advance our commitment to being an Age-Friendly University. The University received an Age-Friendly University designation in 2019, which is based on 10 principles that reflect our commitment to embracing generational diversity; disrupting ageism; fostering intergenerational connectivity; innovating through age-related research; and understanding the intersectionality of aging, race, ethnicity and health disparities. Each of the inaugural projects below support these essential elements of our Age-Friendly University and will be completed in one year.
  
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- Drexel University to Host 2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Enrichment Institute
  
  March 29, 2022
  
  Drexel University is proud to announce its selection as an Alumni Enrichment Institute Partner for the 2022 Alumni Enrichment Institutes, an opportunity for 2021 Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni to travel to the United States in summer 2022 to collaborate with U.S. counterparts and each other and to continue building the professional and leadership skills they developed during their virtual 2021 Leadership Institutes. Beginning in late July, Drexel will host 25 of Africa’s bright, emerging leaders for a two-week Alumni Enrichment Institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
  
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- Drexel Faculty featured on "Academic Minute" from Inside Higher Ed. on NPR
  
  March 16, 2022
  
  Five Drexel faculty will be featured on “Academic Minute” from Inside Higher Ed. on NPR each day this week, part of a rare “takeover week” on the program, including Associate Professor Kara Spiller in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems spoke about harnessing the body’s immune system for better wound healing — drawn from her work in the new field of immune engineering, and the Office of Global Engagement's Vice Provost Rogelio Miñana, discussing how we can foster global partnerships in a post-pandemic world.
  
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