February

Learn about a new President’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Speaker Series, faculty and staff discounts with Drexel Campus Dining, upcoming webinars for professional and financial development, and more.

Drexel University will honor the legacy of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, whose contributions to the space shuttle program were chronicled in the award-winning film “Hidden Figures,” and the work of women and people of color she inspired to be today’s leaders in science, technology engineering and math, at a panel discussion on March 6. The event will be the first in Drexel’s President's Speaker Series highlighting leaders in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

One faculty member, who was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in India, shared tips and advice for interested Drexel faculty and professional staff.

Nina Haracz joined Mauricio Reginato’s lab to test the nature of the survival of breast cancer cells that metastasize to the brain.

Newly published in JAMA Pediatrics, a study by Andrea Wieckowski, PhD, Diana Robins, PhD and their co-authors systematically reviewed and analyzed factors that may lead to different performance estimates of the M-CHAT(-R/F) tests. the most commonly used autism-specific screening tool for young children.

A French course has brought together students and West Philadelphia's native French-speaking West African community, both in and out of the classroom.

Drexel has plenty of resources to keep you mentally, emotionally, physically and academically healthy.

Proactive policing, such as pedestrian and traffic stops, is a crime prevention tactic that relies on police officer discretion to stop and search individuals they consider suspicious. A recently published study in the journal of the American Public Health Association, looking at proactive policing and preterm birth rates in New Orleans, shows that Black residents living in neighborhoods experiencing high levels of proactive policing were about three times as likely to give birth preterm (before 37 weeks) as their white neighbors.

“Forever chemicals” are everywhere — water, soil, crops, animals, the blood of 97% of Americans — researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering are trying to figure out how they got there. Their recent findings suggest that the microbes that help break down biodegradable materials and other waste are likely complicit in the release of the notorious per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into the environment.

Drexel University has launched a new online database of the Atwater Kent Collection, making it available to the public for the first time.

A Drexel Human Resources program supports faculty and professional staff with at least five years of management experience (with people and/or projects) looking to take the next steps as leaders.

Gattuso Development Partners and Drexel University formally broke ground today on 3201 Cuthbert Street, a new life sciences research and laboratory that will become the city’s largest facility of its kind while cementing Philadelphia’s status as an emerging global life sciences research hub.

Four new faculty members talked about how they will be celebrating — and, for one music industry assistant teaching professor, working at — this year's big game.

Over 230 faculty and professional staff members registered for programming last year to better connect with students and University resources. After that success, a new year of programming is starting up this term.

Get to know Drexel's new vice president and chief of police, study up on burn prevention, learn how to safely celebrate the Super Bowl outcome, and more.

Though these students aren’t from Philadelphia, they’ve adopted the Eagles and eagerly await the Super Bowl.

From the Drexel Dragons to the winners of the student competition, the University community came out on top this year.