November

David Cohen, JD, a professor in the Kline School of Law, was quoted in a Nov. 28 New York Times article about fetal viability and an upcoming Supreme Court case that could affect Roe v. Wade.

Franco Montalto, PhD, a professor in the College of Engineering, was mentioned in a Nov. 23 WHYY PlanPhilly post about how the new infrastructure bill could support Philadelphia’s Eastwick community as it works to mitigate the effects of climate change and the extreme flooding it regularly experiences.

Robert I. Field, PhD, JD, a professor in the Kline School of Law and Dornsife School of Public Health, authored a Nov. 23 Philadelphia Inquirer article about the gene therapy sector in Philadelphia, and how it may create new jobs.

Paula Marantz Cohen, PhD, dean of the Pennoni Honors College and Distinguished teaching professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, authored a Nov. 22 Philadelphia Inquirer opinion article about rebooting our sense of empathy in civil discourse. The piece is part of "Rebuilding Philly," a new series, authored by Drexel experts, that will explore how to make the city more equitable and resilient following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robert I. Field, PhD, JD, a professor in the Kline School of Law and Dornsife School of Public Health, was interviewed for a Nov. 20 Bloomberg Law podcast about the lottery that was held to decided which Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the cases challenging the Biden Administration's vaccine mandate for large employers.

Thersa Sweet, PhD, an associate professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a Nov. 18 WPVI-TV (6-abc) story about vials labeled 'smallpox' found at a Merck facility in Montgomery County.

Robert I. Field, PhD, JD, a professor in the Kline School of Law and Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a Nov. 16 Bloomberg Law article about President Biden's vaccine-or-test rule and what's at stake in the Court.

Head Squash Coach John White, was quoted in a Nov. 16 Philadelphia Inquirer story about a Penn doctor who suffered a heart attack and was saved, in part, by White performing CPR on him.

Richard Frankel, JD, an associate professor in the Kline School of Law, was quoted in a Nov. 16 Washington Post article about the first day of deliberations in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

The PFAS advisory group, led by Richard J Hamilton, MD, a professor and chair in the College of Medicine, was mentioned in Nov. 16 stories in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Bucks County Courier Times about the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection proposing a rule that would set maximum contaminant levels of two forms of PFAS, known as "forever chemicals." The article also ran in The Morning Call (Allentown, Pennsylvania).

Hilde Van den Bulck, PhD, a professor and department head of Communications in the College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a Nov. 16 BuzzFeed story about stories shared online about celebrities and how people sometimes use conversations about celebrities to broach difficult discussions in their own lives.

Robert D'Ovidio, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was interviewed in an Nov. 16 WPVI-TV (6-abc) story about phishing scams and preventing identity theft.

Abieyuwa Aghayere, PhD, a professor in the College of Engineering, was quoted in a Nov. 15 New York Times story about what would happen if a tornado hit New York City.

Drexel was mentioned in a Nov. 15 Philadelphia Inquirer story about a new-to-Philadelphia business, Fabscrap, which collects textiles from fashion companies to reuse and recycle. For five years, Fabscrap has partnered with senior fashion design majors, in a capstone project in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, to donate fabric for students to create a design using zero waste design practices.

Robert I. Field, PhD, JD, a professor in the Kline School of Law and Dornsife School of Public Health, authored a "letter to the editor" published in The New York Times on Nov. 15 about religious exemptions for vaccines.

David Goldberg, PhD, a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, was mentioned in an Nov. 12 TIME article about the best inventions of 2021, including a new world map he helped to design. The map is a two-sided, flat disk that minimizes map distortions, making it more similar to a globe than other flat maps.

Harris Steinberg, a professor in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and executive director of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, authored a Nov. 11 Philadelphia Inquirer opinion article about several projects that could improve Philadelphia by utilizing the new infrastructure bill. The piece is part of "Rebuilding Philly," a new series, authored by Drexel experts, that will explore how to make the city more equitable and resilient following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, Dana and David Dornsife dean and distinguished university professor of epidemiology at the Dornsife School of Public Health, and Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, distinguished university professor, executive director of the AgeWell Collaboratory and dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, were quoted in a Nov. 11 Al Día article that reported that the colleges received a 5-year, $14.4 million “Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation” grant from the National Institutes of Health to hire, retain and support diverse, early career researchers with a focus on health disparities research.

Michelle Lowry, PhD, TD Bank Professor of Finance at the LeBow School of Business and academic director of the Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute, was quoted in a Nov. 10 Economist story about companies that go public days and are unprofitable.

Shannon Capps, PhD, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering, was interviewed in a Nov. 10 KYW-TV (CBS-3) segment about the possible health effects of smoke from a large fire in southwest Philadelphia that lingered over the city and into New Jersey.

Jennifer Britton, director of communications and special projects and vice president of University and Community Partnerships and Gwen Ottinger, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, coauthored a Nov. 8 column for the Philadelphia Inquirer about crafting environmental policy through an anti-racist lens. The piece is part of "Rebuilding Philly," a new series, authored by Drexel experts, that will explore how to make the city more equitable and resilient following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abieyuwa Aghayere, PhD, a professor in the College of Engineering, was quoted in a Nov. 8 Miami Herald story about NIST's investigation of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo complex. The story was picked up by a number of outlets across the country via the Tribune News Service.

Sharon Walker, PhD, dean of the College of Engineering, was quoted in a Nov. 5 Science story about how to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in research groups.

Adam Benforado, JD, a professor in the Kline School of Law, was quoted in a Nov. 5 NPR (WUIS-Illinois) article about the jury selection for the trial of the three men facing murder charges for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

Nina Sun, JD, an assistant clinical professor and deputy director of global health at the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a Nov. 5 Guardian article about criminal law being applied to those threatening to spread COVID-19 to law enforcement.

Nancy Spector, MD, the executive director of the executive leadership in academic medicine program at the College of Medicine, was quoted in a Nov. 4 Medscape article about challenges faced by women leaders in medicine.

Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, Dana and David Dornsife dean and distinguished university professor of epidemiology at the Dornsife School of Public Health, was interviewed in a Nov. 2 KYW-Newsradio "In Depth" podcast episode about the School of Public Health and College of Nursing and Health Professions recently receiving an NIH grant for $14.4 million dollars for health disparities research.

Sarah Long, MD, a professor in the College of Medicine, was quoted in Nov. 2 articles in MedPage Today, ABC News, TheScientist, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Postand The San Francisco Chronicleabout the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation for the use of a pediatric dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine in children between 5 and 11 years old.