June

Graduate Student Excellence Celebrated at 2019 Graduate Student Day Awards

June 26, 2019
The accomplished year in the past and the bright future ahead for graduate students at Drexel were recognized and celebrated at this year’s Graduate Student Day awards ceremony and reception.

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PUBLIC SAFETY & U — July

June 26, 2019
This month’s installment features a reminder to register for the R.A.D. self-defense summer session and ways to safely enjoy summer barbecues and outdoor celebrations.
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Heard Around Campus — June

June 26, 2019
With commencement season over, summer term already started and the fiscal year coming to an end, there’s a lot of deadlines and news that faculty and staff should be aware of going into July.
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Intro to Astronomy Class Provides Innovative, Interpersonal Ways to Discover the Cosmos

June 24, 2019
PHYS 131 is Drexel’s introductory course to Astronomy open to all majors, and faculty may soon pilot a video game class to further pique student interest in the subject.
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Democrats and Republicans Agree: Take Politics out of Health Policymaking

June 18, 2019
Despite era of Divisiveness, Americans across Party Lines call for Greater Role of Evidence-based Research in Health-related Lawmaking
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Tower Health and College of Medicine Break Ground at West Reading Site

June 18, 2019
Tower Health and Drexel University held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 17 for the Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health four- year regional campus in West Reading.
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Commencement 2019 in Tweets

June 17, 2019
Here’s what graduates, faculty, staff, friends, family, mentors and honorees had to say on Twitter about Drexel University’s 131^st commencement ceremony hosted at Citizens Bank Park on June 14.

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Commencement 2019: A Celebration of Achievements and a Look Towards the Future

June 17, 2019
This year’s ceremony held at Citizens Bank Park mixed fireworks with notions of citizenship and civic engagement, with CEO and chairman of Merck & Co., Inc. Kenneth C. Frazier delivering the commencement address.
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Hats, and Caps, Off to the 2019 Commencement Cap Winners

June 14, 2019
The winners of this year’s annual commencement cap contest submitted some A+ designs.
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Drexel Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots with Largest LGBTQ+ Art Exhibit in Philadelphia History

June 13, 2019

On June 28, 1969 – the Stonewall Riots marked a pivotal moment in the fight for queer liberation in the United States. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Drexel University’s Pearlstein Gallery will present Stonewall @ 50 - an exhibition that will gather 60 LGBTQ+ Philadelphia-area artists.

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Full STEAM Ahead: The Malcolm Jenkins Foundation and Drexel Partner to Offer Pioneering Summer Camp in West Philadelphia

June 12, 2019
Now in its fourth year, the Young Dragons Summer STEAM program will feature six weeks of education activities focused on the creative intersections of science, technology, engineering arts, athletics and mathematics. The free day camp, offered through a partnership between The Malcolm Jenkins Foundation and Drexel University’s ExCITe Center and Lindy Center for Civic Engagement, is annually attended by 100 middle school students in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone neighborhood.

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Talking ‘Jeopardy!’ With a Dragon Who Won on the Show

June 12, 2019
Vice President and University Secretary Janice K. (Jake) Marini, who won one game of “Jeopardy!” back in 2008, talked to DrexelNow about James Holzhauer’s streak and what she did with her $19,300 in winnings.
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'Selfie Mode' For Heart Imaging Could Help Doctors Spot Heart Disease Earlier

June 12, 2019

Using the electrical impulses generated by the heart to carefully illuminate the picture, an ultrasound contrast dye created by Drexel University researchers is giving doctors a clearer look at the most camera-shy organ in the body. Enabling the heart to take a selfie, of sorts, means doctors could eventually be able to see the early signs of heart disease and treat it before it becomes deadly.

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11 Questions with University-Wide Commencement Speaker Ken Frazier

June 10, 2019
Merck CEO and Chairman Ken Frazier shared a little bit about himself in a Q&A with DrexelNow before his address to Drexel University’s Class of 2019 on June 14 at Citizen’s Bank Park.
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Campus Digest — June 2019

June 10, 2019
Here’s what you need to know about spring 2019 move-out and storage, summer programs and some recently completed construction projects.
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Drexel and Brandywine Open Drexel Park, First Project in Schuylkill Yards

June 10, 2019

Today, Brandywine Realty Trust, in partnership with Drexel University, celebrated the opening of Drexel Square—a new 1.3-acre community park—which marks the first completed project within the $3.5 billion master-planned Schuylkill Yards development in University City.

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Survey Suggests Community Support for Proposed Overdose Prevention Site in Philadelphia

June 6, 2019
Ninety percent of residents and 63 percent of business owners and staff surveyed in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood support opening an overdose prevention site in their community, according to a study led by researchers at Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health published this week in the Journal of Urban Health.
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Announcing Drexel’s New Vice President and Chief Compliance, Privacy, and Internal Audit Officer, Kim Upshaw

June 5, 2019
Kim Upshaw, the current Vice President, Compliance & Privacy Officer at TridentUSA Health Services, will come to Drexel July 8 to lead both the Office of Corporate Compliance and Privacy and the Internal Audit Department.
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Drexel Moves Forward in Prestigious List of Top 100 International Universities Granted US Utility Patents

June 5, 2019
The University moved up three spots among the colleges and universities in a rankings report authored by the National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association.
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‘Hidden Treasures’ Follow-Up: Drexel Alumnus and Professor Remembers the University’s Astronomy Society

June 3, 2019
In response to a previous article about the "hidden treasure" that is the University's observatory, an alumnus and current Drexel assistant clinical professor reminisced about what it was like being the vice president of Drexel's Astronomy Society when he was a chemistry major here at Drexel before graduating in the ’70s.
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PUBLIC SAFETY & U — June

June 3, 2019
This month’s features important summer travel safety tips and a spotlight on the graduating seniors of Drexel EMS and its graduating seniors.
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