Carl H. June, MD, the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, will address the Drexel University College of Medicine class of 2025 at its commencement ceremony on May 16. June is also director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Penn.
Drexel alumnus Justin Best, Olympic gold medalist, two-time Olympian and investment banker, will address the Class of 2025 at the University-wide commencement ceremony on June 12 at 5 p.m.
The link between proximity to greenspace — including trees and parks— and healthy birth outcomes is well established. Now new data from researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health adds to our understanding of these health benefits, accounting for other factors that may influence this link, such as education, income and body mass index, but also taking the body of knowledge a step further by exploring the effect of residing near newly planted trees.
Months after its last notes, the residual economic impacts of Taylor Swift’s record-setting Eras Tour are still coming into focus. While reports suggest that small businesses, tourism and hospitality and even the National Football League experienced a boost — dubbed “The Taylor Swift Effect” — from the tour, new research from Drexel University looking at how opening for an established headliner can affect the career trajectory of an emerging artist indicates that the Eras Tour might also have helped its opening acts grow their fan bases.
Researchers from Drexel University, the University of Pennsylvania, City University of New York and Monell Chemical Senses Center recently reported that American pallets are likely to accept pearl millet — a hardy, gluten-free grain that has been cultivated for centuries in rugged, drought conditions in Africa and India — as an acceptable substitute in recipes that use wheat flour.
Despite a 5-year-old law that requires hospitals in California to connect unhoused patients with social services, new data on patients in a large California-based health care system suggests that hospitals in the state are seldom making the connections to support their unhoused patients.
Niki Robertson, MS arts administration and museum leadership ’24, designed an exhibition that connects “Alice in Wonderland” with Drexel University’s art collection and the way art has historically been displayed to the public.
In a study recently published in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, researchers from Drexel University's College of Arts and Sciences report their discovery of fluorescent pigments in the feathers of Long-eared Owls, that can only be seen by humans with the help of ultraviolet light.
