August

From a trip abroad for basketball to a video game designed at the University, see what had Drexel social media buzzing over the past month.

A brand-new center at Drexel will seek out partnerships with cultural institutions designed to boost the humanities offerings at the University and help prepare partners for the future.

The women’s basketball team made the most of their tour of France, Belgium and the Netherlands by going 4-0 and jelling as a team.

More than 150 students who just finished their first year at Drexel used their summer to do a variety of comprehensive research projects in one of Drexel’s hallmark programs.

See and hear the best of this year’s celebration of the University’s employees.

Five students from Julia R. Masterman High School and Central High are receiving a once-in-a-lifetime summer experience, and summer education, through Drexel University’s “Mini-Med Discovery Days” program, offered through a grant from the Kal & Lucille Rudman Foundation.

A new photography exhibit will highlight a gritty photo-style born from a photographer's experiences in Oklahoma between 1963 and 1971.

A new model for recovering would-be wasted – or surplus – food and repurposing it to feed hungry people, generate revenue and even create jobs was recently piloted in West Philadelphia. Compiled by researchers from Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania, Cabrini College and the Environmental Protection Agency, the results were published in Food and Nutrition Sciences.

The historic outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa that began in March 2014 and has killed more than 11,000 people since has raised new questions about the resilience of the virus and tested scientists’ understanding of how to contain it. The latest discovery by a group of microbial risk-assessment and virology researchers suggests that the procedures for disposal of Ebola-contaminated liquid waste might underestimate the virus’ ability to survive in wastewater.

Pregnancy could be a turning point for HIV-infected women, when they have the opportunity to enter a long-term pattern of maintenance of HIV care after giving birth—but most HIV-infected women aren’t getting that chance, according to a pair of new studies led by Drexel and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

Drexel announced a new collaboration with Michelin North America to help find and develop new technologies that have the potential to impact people and their mobility, and change the transportation industry.

Check out what’s been going on at Drexel over the last month, including a new top ranking for the fashion program, a newly announced retirement and construction updates.

According to the new book “Climate Change and Society: Sociological Perspectives,” engaging the social – and not just natural – sciences in the climate conversation is essential for effecting large-scale change.Edited by environmental sociologists Robert J. Brulle, PhD,a professor in Drexel University’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Riley E. Dunlap, a professor at Oklahoma State University, the book breaks new ground by presenting climate change as a thoroughly social phenomenon, embedded in behaviors, institutions and cultural practices.

Drexel University College of Medicine’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership has selected noted immunologist Katherine L. Knight as the 2015 recipient of its Marion Spencer Fay Award. The award, which annually recognizes luminary women in science and medicine, is named for a pioneering former president of the College’s forerunner institution, the Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia

From a fragment of 16th century Italian velvet to an evening dress by New York designer Alexander Wang from 2012, the first large-scale, retrospective exhibition of highlights from the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection in Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design will trace the arc of fashion history over the course of more than three centuries.

See what it’s like for the photographers and student-athletes behind the annual tradition of Media Day.

Drexel faculty and staff volunteers can come out and begin a brand-new tradition welcoming Dragons to campus during Move-In Day in the University’s first official Welcome Week.

The scientists whose job it is to test the limits of what nature—specifically chemistry— will allow to exist, just set up shop on some new real estate on the Periodic Table. Using a method they invented for joining disparate elemental layers into a stable material with uniform, predictable properties, Drexel University researchers are testing an array of new combinations that may vastly expand the options available to create faster, smaller, more efficient energy storage, advanced electronics and wear-resistant materials.

Through local hires and community outreach, Drexel is dedicated to helping its neighborhoods prosper while recruiting an inclusive workforce.

There's just one month left for you to nominate the young Drexel graduates who inspire you for Drexel Magazine's annual 40 Under 40.

Set to head to Belgium, the Netherlands and Europe, Drexel women’s basketball hopes to jell during the international tour before this year’s challenging season.

Drexel is sharpening its focus on graduate education — at the master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral levels — an essential step in securing its place among the nation’s leading research universities.

A city ordinance that would establish safer and more enjoyable vending areas with amenities for Drexel’s food trucks and vendors is being supported by the University.

The College of Medicine’s newest class of medical students recently took part in the time-honored tradition of receiving their very first white coats.

More than 8 out of 10 people surveyed online admitted to sexting in the prior year, according to a new study from Drexel University’s Women’s Health Psychology Lab.

Matt Parsons’ co-op is so unique that he’s the only researcher, student or professional, completing this type of nuclear fusion research.

When it comes down to it, empathy is one of a doctor’s most important tools, and Drexel’s College of Medicine places a special importance on teaching it to medical students.

Pope Francis – and an estimated 1.5 million people – will descend upon the city of Philadelphia in late September as the capstone to the weeklong, international World Meeting of Families event, during which the Pope will deliver a public mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. From concerns about security measures to transportation, anxiety is already on the rise among Philadelphians regarding how the city will handle the influx of tourists expected to double the city’s population. Drexel University experts are available to comment on a range of issues related to the visit including safety, public health, environmental impact, infrastructure preparedness and tourism. Experts also are able to weigh in about what this once-in-a-lifetime event – and the Pope’s progressive views – mean for the Catholic church.

For 10 years, Drexel students have used the summer as an opportunity to bring counseling and a means of expression through music to adolescents waiting for judgment on their cases.

With Bug Fest set for this weekend, the Academy of Natural Sciences’ staff discusses what they’re looking forward to at the annual celebration of bugs.

Having recently released their game from Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio, a team made up mostly of women reflects on their game and the industry they hope to enter.

The bushmeat market in the city of Malabo is bustling—more so today than it was nearly two decades ago, when Gail Hearn, PhD, began what is now one of the region’s longest continuously running studies of commercial hunting activity. Hearn’s team has now published its comprehensive results of 13 years of daily monitoring bushmeat market activity.