College News

2023
- The Path to Academic ‘Awards Season’ Student Success at Drexel
  
  September 01, 2023
  Last term, three Drexel students received major national and international scholarships — and all of them are involved in the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program for underrepresented minority students in STEM disciplines.
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- Lindy Center for Civic Engagement Funding Second Cohort of Anti-Racism Projects
  
  August 29, 2023
  Since the 2021–22 school year, the Lindy Center has offered Anti-Racism Mini Grants to students working in areas focused on dialogue, education, arts and culture, economic mobility and global perspectives.
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- Dragons on Fire: Kudos for Student Achievements
  
  June 13, 2023
  Here's a snapshot of awards, scholarships, publications and fellowships Drexel University students have earned in the past term.
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- Dragons on Fire: Kudos for Student Achievements
  
  March 09, 2023
  Students have earned scholarships and fellowships and received awards in the last term.
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- STAR Scholar Scales Real-World Learning Curve in Cancer Research
  
  February 23, 2023
  Nina Haracz joined Mauricio Reginato’s lab to test the nature of the survival of breast cancer cells that metastasize to the brain.
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2022
- Pennoni Honors College at Drexel Introduces "Can We Talk?" Events
  
  November 09, 2022
  Students from any university can learn to have a more civil discussion with people whose views differ from theirs — just in time for Thanksgiving.
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- Pennoni Honors College Celebrates 20 Years
  
  September 01, 2022
  Happy 20th Anniversary to Drexel University's Pennoni Honors College.
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- Pennoni Receives Teagle Implementation Grant
  
  August 26, 2022
  
  Pennoni Honors College is expanding its Program in Civic Foundations to address more students, using a Teagle Implementation Grant for 2022-2025.
  
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- Meet Drexel’s 2022 Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients
  
  May 19, 2022
  The speakers addressing graduates this year and receiving recognition for their accomplishments come from wide-ranging backgrounds and fields — and many of them have ties to the University.
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- Nationally Recognized Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, Transformative Leader in Higher Education, to Speak at Drexel’s 2022 Commencement
  
  March 30, 2022
  One of the nation’s most influential leaders in higher education, Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, will address the class of 2022 at Drexel’s university-wide commencement ceremony on June 9. In what has become a tradition, Drexel University will return to Citizens Bank Park to celebrate the graduating class in-person. The ceremony will also be live-streamed.
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2021
- Undergraduate Research & Enrichment Programs publishes its 2020-21 Annual Report
  
  December 09, 2021
  
  In its inaugural year as a department, UREP has built on the successful legacy of its former offices to create stronger, more connected pipelines of opportunities for students.
  
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2018
- Meet the Drexel Dragons up for the Biggest Awards This Year
  
  March 01, 2018
  Drexel University’s Center for Scholar Development recently hosted an event to recognize the hard work and initiative taken by those students who applied for major fellowships this year.
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2017
- Drexel Supports First-Generation Students Through Collaboration and Conversation
  
  January 23, 2017
  The University aims to bring together first-generation college students and faculty to talk about shared experiences and life lessons through a series of talks.
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2016
- Drexel Sends First Dragon to Kazakhstan
  
  August 03, 2016
  Caitlin Walczyk will be the first Drexel student to receive a scholarship or fellowship to study in Kazakhstan when she spends a year studying Russian in the country as a Boren Awards honoree.
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- Making International Friends at Home and Abroad
  
  January 15, 2016
  Through her experiences at Drexel, Grace Kerschensteiner knows what it’s like to befriend international students in her home country and make friends while living abroad.
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2015
- Curiosity Fuels Drexel Professor’s Prolific Inventing
  
  February 13, 2015
  Professor Wan Shih’s curiosity has turned into a prolific inventing career in which almost 30 patents are attached to her name, resulting in a fellowship with the National Academy of Inventors.
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2014
- Whitaker Fellowship Profile
  
  June 03, 2014
  Josa Hanzlik spends her days looking at images of human tibia bones, or reading articles about bone ingrowth and orthopedic implants. Those are things she could do in Philadelphia. But instead she's doing them in the Netherlands, and she says she's better for it.
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- Drexel Students Offered Fulbright Grants
  
  May 22, 2014
  For the second consecutive year a record-breaking seven Drexel students and alumni have been offered study and research grants by the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
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- Goldwater Scholarship Twins
  
  April 14, 2014
  Their parents joke that they're almost "the same person." So it's only natural that the year after Rishon Benjamin won a Goldwater Scholarship, his twin brother, Alex, won one as well.
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