October

A unique partnership between Drexel University and the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts enabled two students to pick up a variety of skills and experiences.

Last term, Drexel University’s colleges, schools and departments received funding, created partnerships and otherwise contributed to the success of Drexel’s academic enterprise.

Gina Monahan, MS arts administration and museum leadership ’25, curated a new exhibition highlighting the family of Drexel University’s founder.

Students have earned fellowships, scholarships, awards and more over the past quarter.

Learn about upcoming deadlines for required enterprise learning and conflict of interest disclosure (Nov. 3), the performance development process (Nov. 11), and benefits open enrollment (Nov. 12).

A group of transfer students were seeking community at their new school, so they made their own.

Students from across the country will get a chance to design their own version of the skyscraper-size video games that have become the calling card of Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio and Westphal College of Media Arts & Design Professor Frank Lee. PhD. Through a collaboration with professor Erin Truesdell at New Jersey Institute of Technology— dubbed “Skyscraper Games” — the studio will engage K-12 students in learning computing concepts through digital game developments and creative expression as they design games on a virtual model of Brandywine Realty Trust’s 29-story Cira Centre office building in Philadelphia.

Scientists from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center have uncovered a crucial structural feature of a key malaria drug target, known as PfATP4, and discovered a previously unknown binding partner that could reshape antimalarial drug design.

Jon Chase will succeede Alan Greenberger, who retired on Oct. 3 after four and half years of dedicated service leading the department.

As screening and understanding of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) grows, a new national initiative tapping Drexel expertise aims to yield new insights for many of the 1 in 45 adults and 1 in 35 children in the United States living with autism. The role that both genetic factors, as well as environmental influences, play in development of autism are the focus of a new $50 million Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Drexel researchers with expertise studying the intersection of these exposures will be among those leading the new effort.

Since 1980, the College of Arts and Sciences center has served more than 1,000 doctoral students who came from over 20 countries to study at the University.

A new mural shows 18 movies that were shot and/or set in the city — but it doesn’t include “Somewhere in Queens” and “How Do You Know,” which were partly filmed on the University City Campus.

The academic center has become a space for students to come together, with the help of its ambassadors.

A recent paper from Drexel University researchers reports that a current collector made of MXene film could reduce the battery’s weight and thickness while improving its available capacity.

Public Safety & U — October 2025

The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design has announced its Fall 2025 Exhibition, entitled Of the Grid: Systems + Structures in Contemporary Art. The exhibition, which features 36 artists working in, around and outside of “the box,” will be on display from Tuesday, Oct. 14 through Monday, Dec. 15.

More than 100 students spent their summers steeped in research through the Pennoni Honors College’s program.

An undergraduate student created a new exhibition that delves deep into the life, home and art of Anthony J. Drexel.

For the third consecutive year, Drexel University was recognized for its outstanding commitment to academic excellence, belonging and community-building across all levels of campus life.

Over a million visitors passing through the transit hub in October will encounter Drexel’s experiential approach to education in a dynamic campaign done in partnership with alumnus and Trustee Stan Silverman.