2013

- Philippines Typhoon Fundraiser
  
  December 04, 2013
  
  The Philippines are famous for their festive Christmas season, but this year's celebration has been marred by the deadly Typhoon Haiyan. Drexel graphic design student Gerre Mae Barcebal, who has family in the Philippines, is doing her part to help by selling T-shirts she designed to raise funds for relief.
  
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- Worst Job in Science
  
  December 02, 2013
  
  Jake Owens spent a month surrounded by criminals with machetes and rotting meat in Africa, earning notice from Popular Science magazine.
  
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- Lebow Second Most Beautiful School
  
  November 21, 2013
  
  The new home of LeBow College of Business, Gerri C. LeBow Hall, just opened this fall, but it's already drawing worldwide notice. LeBow has been named the second most beautiful business school in the world by the website TopManagementDegrees.com.
  
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- Drexel, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Hebew University Launch Research Consortium
  
  November 11, 2013
  
  The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia CEO Steven M. Altschuler, Drexel President John A. Fry and Hebrew University of Jerusalem President Menahem Ben-Sasson signed a research agreement today as part of Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter’s trade mission to Israel. The research partnership is designed to focus on pediatric translational research and to develop a collaborative platform for advancing pediatric medicine from the lab to the bedside.
  
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- Mica Matlack Co-op Profile
  
  November 11, 2013
  
  As part of her co-op, Mica Matlack must don special gloves to turn a page in a 175-year-old book every day. Oh, and she speaks seven languages.
  
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- Only Three Weeks Remain to See U.S. Debut of Contemporary Artwork from China’s Top Academy
  
  November 04, 2013
  
  Only three weeks remain for visitors to see an exhibition of contemporary art by top graduates from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), China’s premier art academy, at Drexel University. The exhibition, hosted by the University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, will be on display at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery in the URBN Center Annex (3401 Filbert St.) through Friday, Nov. 22. The gallery is free and open to the public Monday – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
  
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- Justin Mathew Graduate Student Profile
  
  November 01, 2013
  
  At least one time, Justin Mathew's dual role has forced him to sprint through Drexel hallways from one job to another. But it's worth it, he says, to break out of the graduate-student bubble, and help others to do the same.
  
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- Longline Fishery in Costa Rica Kills Thousands of Sea Turtles and Sharks
  
  October 02, 2013
  
  The second-most-common catch on Costa Rica’s longline fisheries in the last decade was not a commercial fish species. It was olive ridley sea turtles.
  
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- Carmen Cronin profile
  
  October 01, 2013
  
  Carmen Cronin speaks three languages and has traveled around the world. But the real reasons she’s so passionate about global public health issues are the people she’s met.
  
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- Freshmen spend summer doing research — and getting paid for it
  
  September 30, 2013
  
  Rebecca Olsho spent much of her summer on the Greek island of Crete, assisting with research and getting paid for it. She did this as just a freshman in college, thanks to Drexel's STAR Scholars program.
  
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