Sustainability News

- What Stories Do You Have to Tell? Drexel’s New Storylab Can Help
  
  February 20, 2015
  
  The Drexel Storylab, a new initiative in Drexel University’s College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of English & Philosophy, aims to help writers of all levels jumpstart the creative process by working with established writers and looking for inspiration in unlikely places.
  
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- Urban Design and Planning Students from Drexel and Germany Reimagine Philly’s Delaware River Waterfront
  
  February 12, 2015
  
  A select handful of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design students interested in urban design will have the opportunity to generate fresh ideas and create a vision for the future of the Lehigh Viaduct, Delaware Power Station and surrounding Port Richmond area. Along with 15 students and two faculty members from Germany’s TU Dortmund University, which researches and teaches the global intersection between man, nature and technology, the students will participate in an intensive urban infrastructure planning and design process to develop concepts for repurposing this post-industrial infrastructure.
  
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- Drexel Research Team Connects Urban Design to Public Health
  
  February 10, 2015
  
  Faculty in design and public health at Drexel are working together with community-based projects in West Philadelphia. Their projects test the idea that aspects of natural systems can be woven into urban design to improve health.
  
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- Studies of Most Endangered Chimpanzees Show Complex Evolutionary Past, Perilous Future
  
  January 21, 2015
  
  A Drexel-led team's complementary analyses of population genetics, geographical distribution and habitat use paint a new picture of the evolutionary past and potentially bleak future of the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee, already the most endangered chimp subspecies.
  
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- How Long Can Ebola Survive Outside the Body?
  
  December 11, 2014
  
  Ebola is transmitted from person to person through bodily fluids, but Drexel researchers have found that there is not much information on how long the virus can live outside of the human body.
  
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- Drexel Helps New York City Park Plug Into Research
  
  December 03, 2014
  
  Researchers at Drexel are teaming with the U.S. Forest Service and New York City's Parks and Recreation Department to monitor the second-largest park in Queens to measure how pollution and the climate affect forests.
  
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- Drexel, NJIT and Rowan to Concert Water Research Efforts
  
  November 18, 2014
  
  Researchers from Drexel University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rowan University are aligning themselves with government, private and advocacy groups in hopes of solving challenges that affect the region’s water resources. The research alliance, supported by scholars from all three academic institutions, will function as a data resource, a policy think tank and a lab for creating new technology.
  
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- Spanning the Globe: Drexel Research Reaches Around the World in 2014
  
  November 11, 2014
  
  Where in the world have Drexel professors conducted research in 2014? The answer: all seven continents.
  
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- Clean Smell Doesn't Always Mean Clean Air
  
  October 29, 2014
  
  Some of the same chemical reactions that occur in the atmosphere as a result of smog and ozone are actually taking place in your house while you are cleaning. A researcher in Drexel’s College of Engineering is taking a closer look at these reactions, which involve an organic compound -called limonene- that provides the pleasant smell of cleaning products and air fresheners. His research will help to determine what byproducts these sweet-smelling compounds are adding to the air while we are using them to remove germs and odors.
  
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- Candy Chang Visits Drexel
  
  October 27, 2014
  
  Artist, designer and urban planner Candy Chang wants the University City community to think about life and death. She recently installed one of her popular "Before I Die" walls at the University City High School construction site as a precursor to her visit as a distinguished speaker in the spring.
  
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