For the fourth year, the Office of the Provost and Drexel Libraries highlighted the work of Drexel’s authors and editors. This year, for the first time, published students were honored along with faculty and staff.

A screening of Education INC will take place on Wednesday, April 27th at 6:30pm, followed by a panel discussion. 

The ArtistYear program provides a unique opportunity for Westphal students graduating this year and alumni up to the age of 28 to make a difference by creating unique arts programs and classes in an underserved Philadelphia public school. 

Producer William Horberg will participate in a Q&A session as part of the Pennoni Honors College “Great Works Symposium”.

Ken Downing, Neiman Marcus’ Senior Vice President and Fashion Director, will visit Westphal on Thursday, April 21^st.  

A new episode of The Pretentious Film Majors (PFM) will air on Friday, April 15^th at 8pm on DUTV, Drexel’s Television station carried throughout Philadelphia on Comcast channels 54 and 62 and Verizon channel 37.

The Dance Program will host the Pennsylvania Ballet’s rehearsal of O Zlozony/O Composite, a piece by the iconic post-modernist American choreographer, Trisha Brown.

The Department of Defense has announced $75 million in funding for a national research institute, the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), emphasizing the combination of technology and textiles towards developing new materials for American textile manufactures and market places across varying industries. Drexel will chair the Mid-Atlantic chapter. 

Photographer Harvey Wang began taking pictures as a teenager. He was mid-career when the tools of his craft were made nearly obsolete with the transition from film to digital. In a new film, “From Darkroom to Daylight,” Wang documents this dramatic journey, exploring how others navigated the change and how it has affected them and their work. 

The U.S. Department of Defense has tapped Drexel University as a key leader in the creation of a $75 million national research institute that will support American textile manufacturers in bringing sophisticated new materials and textiles to the marketplace. The institute, called Advanced Functional Fabrics of America, will be a national manufacturing resource center for industry and government to draw on academic expertise in new fibers and textiles. The result will be fabrics engineered to see, hear, sense and communicate; serving an array of industries including aerospace, apparel, architecture and health.