March

Make sure you’re set to ride SEPTA for free next month, and learn more about campus changes to the refreshed Gateway Garden and the new eatery opening next fall at The Summit.

With new support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health will expand its work to identify, study and challenge the health effects of racism and exclusion throughout our nation’s history.

Drexel University's Food Lab and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health have introduced the Good Food Accelerator, a pilot program for Philadelphia-area food businesses and co-packers.

One of the nation’s most influential leaders in higher education, Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, will address the class of 2022 at Drexel’s university-wide commencement ceremony on June 9. In what has become a tradition, Drexel University will return to Citizens Bank Park to celebrate the graduating class in-person. The ceremony will also be live-streamed.

Drexel’s wellness incentive program for employees is celebrating half a decade of offering faculty and professional staff opportunities to improve their health and wellness — and earn money by doing so.

The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, will open an exhibition called Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic on Thursday, March 31 – with a reception and book launch from 5-7 p.m.

With the warmer weather and looser COVID-19 restrictions, you might be planning to spend more time out and about. To refresh your personal safety toolkit, consider participating in Public Safety’s all-inclusive self-protection program and learn about the best way to secure your belongings at the Rec Center.

SEPTA is preparing to launch an institutional pass program that will help bolster an inclusive recovery for the region.

As part of the new Drexel.edu website redesign, the former DrexelNow site for University stories, messages and news releases has been rebranded as DrexelNEWS.

An international team of researchers, including Drexel University's Yury Gogotsi, PhD, has proposed that electrochemical energy storage mechanisms exist on a spectrum that ranges between physical and chemical retention of ions.

The groundbreaking field was started at Drexel University and continues to this day through the renowned Nyheim Plasma Institute.

Drexel University and Lockheed Martin will expand their long-standing partnership with the launch of a new STEM careers co-op program, and the fall opening of an on-campus technology and innovation incubator. This facility will serve as a hub for Drexel faculty and students to engage, collaborate and innovate alongside Lockheed Martin employees.

Drexel University joined organizations across the region to launch Accelerate Health Equity, a collaboration intended to produce tangible improvement in health inequities, and ultimately achieve measurable, positive changes in health outcomes in Philadelphia.

Gattuso Development Partners announced that it will partner with Drexel University to build what is expected to become the city’s largest life sciences research and laboratory building, located on Drexel’s campus in the heart of the burgeoning University City life sciences district. GDP will partner with New York-based Vigilant Real Estate Holdings and Boston-based The Baupost Group on the project.

With the warmer weather and looser COVID-19 restrictions, you might be planning to spend more time out and about. To refresh your personal safety toolkit, consider participating in Public Safety’s all-inclusive self-protection program and learn about the best way to secure your belongings at the Rec Center.

The new Vice Provost and Executive Director of The Environmental Collaboratory discussed how his background in environmental justice and solution-building for international organizations and the Obama administration will inform his vision of the University’s new interdisciplinary initiative.

A message was sent to the campus community about the University moving to a two-tiered system for indoor masking, was sent to the Drexel community.

Those who formally or informally help students plan their future careers can learn more about available Drexel resources and expertise through the Career Champions Certificate Program.

Raisa Sharif, a second-year computer engineering student co-oping at SEPTA, and Taylor LaFountain, a fourth-year architectural and civil engineering student co-oping at Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, interviewed each other about their experiences and what they’ve learned.

The five-story wall of air-purifying plants has been reinstalled in the Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building with a new design and improved lighting and watering systems.

A message was sent to the Drexel community regarding how the loosening of local masking guidelines will affect the University's protocols.