Jump-Start High-Impact Research with Dragon Seeds

Supporting a new research and development seed fund will help researchers across Drexel initiate new projects and collaborate across disciplines to investigate solutions for society's most pressing challenges.

Your Gift to Dragon Seeds

  • Your gift will spark new transdisciplinary collaborations that are required for genuine innovation. These will include internal partnerships among researchers, as well as new external partnerships with industry, non-profit, government and higher education sectors. New partnerships will serve to further strengthen Drexel’s identity in basic and applied research, creative and scholarly activities to reaffirm Drexel as a trusted and dedicated partner to start-ups and health care systems.
  • Offers an excellent opportunity to start initiatives from the ground up and grow Drexel’s visibility in and contributions to high-impact, use-inspired research. 

Working collaboratively across disciplines, the impact of Drexel’s researchers — in Philadelphia, across the country and around the world — has unlimited potential. Yet a great many promising ideas languish because they lack the financial resources to explore them seriously. That is why Drexel has created options for those who wish to support innovative research.

Every gift has impact.

If you can consider a gift in the range of $50, $100, $250, $1,000 or other, you can make a donation immediately on our secure online giving site. You can safely charge your gift to your MasterCard, Visa, American Express or Discover Card. Thank you.

To learn more about how a more substantial investment can have a real impact on launching interdisciplinary research at Drexel to investigate the most pressing challenges, we invite you to contact the Office of Institutional Advancement. There are numerous ways to structure and make a gift. At specific investment levels, donors also may establish a named research fund to honor a family member or other individual.

Contact:
David L. Unruh
Senior Vice President
Office of Institutional Advancement
Drexel University
Philadelphia
215.895.1673
david.l.unruh@drexel.edu

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Stories of Impact

CovidCalls
A series of daily recordings created in the early days of the pandemic by a Drexel historian will endure as a real-time oral history of the disaster.
Racial Injustice
Outrage over police killings of Black citizens in the summer of 2020 spurred researchers and the University to respond with a novel fund for “rapid response” scholarship.
Immersive Research Article Image
The Immersive Research Lab opened in 2019 with an ensemble of virtual and augmented technology found at few universities. When the pandemic arrived, it became indispensable.
Therapy Via Screen Article Image
Is virtual reality the next big thing in art therapy?
Laura Gitlin
An online platform could help support and educate those taking care of people living with dementia.
Spotting Injuries Article Image
A medical device startup housed within Drexel’s School of Biomedical Engineering has spent years perfecting a brain injury scanner that is saving lives around the world as it travels a long but rewarding road toward commercial success.
Nothing Wasted Article Image
The Drexel Food Lab partnered with a popular restaurant on a “whole food” menu experiment that was part industry partnership, part sustain-ability experiment, part virtual co-op and 100 percent delicious.
Ashes to Concrete Article Image
A new process developed at Drexel can convert tons of coal-fired power plant waste into a customizable and durable construction material.
Stephanie Kroll
More public and private resources than ever are being directed to protecting and preserving aquatic ecosystems and watersheds — but are they truly having an impact?