2021

- Climate Year Six-month Progress Report
  
  June 29, 2021
  
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- Study: Parks Not Only Safe, but Essential During the Pandemic
 
 May 12, 2021
 
 Parks played an important role for people seeking respite from the toll of social isolation during the pandemic, and according to new research from Drexel University, they did so without increasing the spread of COVID-19. The study looked at how people used 22 parks in Philadelphia and New York during the height of the pandemic and it found no strong correlation between park use and the number of confirmed cases in surrounding neighborhoods.
 
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- Drexel Opens Community Greenhouse in Stratton Hall
 
 May 11, 2021
 
 Students, faculty and professional staff can sign up to grow plants on campus, with the University providing everything but the seeds for use.
 
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- Announcing a Climate Year Speaker Series
 
 May 10, 2021
 
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- 5 Takeaways From Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval’s Virtual Visit to Drexel
 
 May 10, 2021
 
 The senator representing South Philadelphia shared important career and leadership advice for Dragons to keep in mind for their own careers or civic journeys.
 
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- OFFICE OF GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT'S GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION FUNDING AWARD
 
 May 04, 2021
 
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- Calling for Nominations: the Climate Resilience Research Agenda for the Philadelphia Region
 
 April 21, 2021
 
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- 2021 Global Research Symposium: International Solutions for A Global Crisis
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 The University’s “Climate Year: Global Research Symposium” brought together Drexel faculty and international partners to present and discuss ways of studying, addressing and combatting climate change.
 
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- What Drexel Does — and Doesn’t — Have From the 1918 Pandemic
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 How were Drexel and other institutions now part of the University affected by the 20th century influenza outbreak? Based off of their archival collections, it’s hard to say.
 
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- Defense Mechanisms in Aphids Can Become a Double-edged Sword, Sharpened by the Seasons
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and researchers are now observing how this influences biodiversity in the field. In a newly published study in Molecular Ecology a team of Drexel University scientists examined the biological variations in pea aphids, insects that reproduce frequently enough to evolve before our eyes, by tracing the prevalence of their protective endosymbiont, Hamiltonella defensa, which the insects use to ward off parasitoid wasps.
  
 
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