Goodwin College Turns Over a New Leaf
Oct 28, 2015
After years of re-divisions and staff changes, Goodwin College is now ready to step up as one of the University’s education leaders in a variety of populations of students.
Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Teen Suicide
Oct 27, 2015
A computer-based screening tool developed by the College of Nursing and Health Professions’ Guy Diamond now getting expanded use in Pennsylvania schools helps identify the factors that add up to a teenager’s suicide risk — a sorely unresearched topic.
Q&A with Procurement's Stephen Mack
Oct 27, 2015
In every procurement job Stephen Mack has taken, he’s sought to bring the lesson learned at the start of his career to the world of higher education. At Drexel, Mack feels his ideas are finding a willing audience as he takes Procurement Services from a buying operation to one that shaves budget inefficiencies and even generates a little revenue.
Employee Spotlight: Yury Gogotsi
Oct 27, 2015
Yury Gogotsi, PhD, has worked for much of his professional career in the international realm and believes that Drexel must strive to increase its global research presence or be left behind.
Making a Change: Taking Advantage of Drexel’s Fitness Opportunities
Oct 27, 2015
Employees who want to improve their health have many options at Drexel — as the story of Jerome Wilson shows. When the loans specialist came to work for Drexel a few years ago, he trained both brain and brawn to shed 140 pounds and keep his weight where he wants it.
Behind the Scenes: The Making of Immortal Beauty
Oct 27, 2015
Putting together a large-scale fashion exhibition much more than simply placing garments on mannequins. It takes careful planning, hard work and a collection worth showing. See what went into the exhibition currently showing in the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery that's putting Drexel on the fashion map.
Drexel Co-ops by College
Oct 26, 2015
These statistics, facts and stories highlight the best that the co-op program has to offer for students in each and every school and college at Drexel.
Heard Around Campus: October 2015
Oct 23, 2015
From an award for being a newsmaker to a groundbreaking, check out what you may have missed about Drexel this past month.
Philadelphia Media Network and Drexel University Team Up on News App
Oct 23, 2015
Research suggests that the vast majority of young adults are interested in news, but most news apps and websites fail to meet their expectations. In a ground-breaking partnership between Drexel University and Philadelphia Media Network LLC, a cutting- edge social news app is being created by young adults with a primary goal of serving millennial audiences but with the needs of a wider array of users on mobile devices in mind. The partnership will lay the foundation for further external collaboration on research and development of PMN’s news products.
Drexel Delegation Off to China, Korea
Oct 22, 2015
President John A. Fry and a group of Drexel colleagues will make stops at academic partners in China and take part in a celebration of a new research and co-op partnership in Korea that gives students access to cutting-edge research and nanotechnology.
Drexel Exhibit Provides Perspective for Issue of Drug Use
Oct 21, 2015
Surrounded by the gritty photos of Larry Clark’s Tulsa series, professors from the Dornsife School of Public Health and locals who have struggled with addiction will come together in an event to discuss drug use and its impact on modern-day communities.
Meet the 1st Finalist for the Vice President of IRT
Oct 14, 2015
Drexel faculty, staff and students are invited to meet one of the finalists for the vice president of Information Resources and Technology and assist in determining the right candidate for the job.
A Fitter U Q&A: October 2015
Oct 14, 2015
Drexel’s resident fitness expert Joe Giandonato has answers for new questions posed by the Drexel community including queries about hydration during exercise and what to eat before working out.
NBC's Olympic Coverage Chief Jim Bell to Speak at Drexel
Oct 14, 2015
The Olympic Games are some of the most-watched TV events in history, with millions of viewers tuning in from around the world. On Wednesday, Oct. 21, Jim Bell, executive producer of the Olympic Games for NBC Sports, will visit Drexel University to give a behind-the-scenes look at how that coverage comes together.ell’s talk, which is co-hosted by the Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies in Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and Drexel’s Center for Hospitality and Sport Management, is free and open to the public and will take place at 6:30pm in the URBN Annex Screening Room (3401 Filbert St).
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Co-op!
Oct 13, 2015
You’ve probably played Rock-Paper-Scissors before, but what about virtual reality Rock-Paper-Scissors?
Drexel Offers Free Mental Health Screenings and Demonstrations for National Depression Screening Day
Oct 7, 2015
This Thursday, Oct. 8 marks the 25th Annual National Depression Screening Day, held during Mental Illness Awareness Week in October. The Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11th Street Family Health Services (850 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia) of Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions will host a special, all-day event dedicated to raising awareness and screening people for depression and related mood and anxiety disorders. The event is free and open to the public.
Culinary Co-op Gets Taste of the World Expo
Oct 7, 2015
What’s a good recipe for a culinary arts student to experience the best of the world’s cuisine? Take a co-op that lets you sample and learn about the food of almost every country in the world.
Behind the Scenes at Pope Weekend
Oct 5, 2015
An online graduate student in Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health Professions used her deployment with the American Red Cross for the papal visit as an opportunity for the intense, on-the-job application of what she’s learned.
Drexel to Host Startup Academy For Musical Entrepreneurs
Oct 5, 2015
Before companies like Pandora, Spotify, and YouTube became household names, they were startup businesses that had to figure out their businesses in the complex worlds of music and technology. Of course, many ideas like this don’t get off the ground—and it’s not because they aren’t good ones. Drexel University and the Music Business Association (Music Biz) are trying to give these inklings of enterprising musical minds a fighting chance at getting noticed by training them in the ways of entrepreneurs at Philadelphia’s first Music Startup Academy.
Did Asteroid Impact or Volcanic Eruption Kill the Dinosaurs? Probably Both, Says New Study
Oct 1, 2015
Was it an asteroid impact on Earth 66 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs? Or the eruption of volcanoes in India for hundreds of thousands of years? For decades, paleontologists and geologists have debated the role these two global events played in the last mass extinction.But compelling new evidence supports the hypothesis of a group of geoscientists: that the asteroid’s impact ignited volcanoes around the globe, most catastrophically in India, and that, together, these planet-wide catastrophes caused the extinction of many land and marine animals, including the dinosaurs.