Made to Measure: The URBN x Drexel Apprenticeship Program consists of a customized curriculum combining fashion design coursework at Drexel with mentorship and on-the-job training at URBN. URBN and Drexel are covering the cost of tuition and room and board with the goal of making careers in fashion design more accessible.
Learn more about upcoming developments for next month (Black History Month) and the rest of the year (wellness benefits as well as goal setting and performance development).
Researchers at Drexel University are one step closer to making wearable textile technology a reality. Recently published in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Journal of Material’s Chemistry A, materials scientists from Drexel’s College of Engineering, in partnership with a team at Accenture Labs, have reported a new design of a flexible wearable supercapacitor patch.
The Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest funder of the arts, culture and humanities. The $500,000 grant will provide funding for UnMapping: A Project of Radical Textual Geographies. The project aims to bring the literary and broader humanities imagination to bear on urgent issues of social justice in the West Philadelphia community and beyond.
The City View Lounge on the sixth floor of MacAlister Hall is now open for faculty and professional staff to eat food and relax in a special, scenic space.
Food entrepreneurs in Philadelphia can now access a new web portal designed to assist community and student businesses in navigating how to plan, launch and grow successful small food enterprises.
Researchers in Drexel University’s College of Engineering have developed a thin film device, fabricated by spray coating, that can block electromagnetic radiation with the flip of a switch. The breakthrough, enabled by versatile two-dimensional materials called MXenes, could adjust the performance of electronic devices, strengthen wireless connections and secure mobile communications against intrusion.
This year, Lindy Center for Civic Engagement has planned social media outreach and in-person events themed around activists including Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King and more.
Singleton comes to the University with 28 years of experience from the Philadelphia Police Department and hopes to make the University's police department part of the community.
A new study from researchers in Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions, has shed light on the many and varied fall-risk factors facing older adults in community-living environments. The research examined a comprehensive set of potential fall-risk factors — including environmental factors, in addition to health and function — in older community-living adults in the U.S., both with and without dementia.
Drexel University has launched the Innovation Fund, which invests in early-stage Drexel student and postgraduate startups, as well as startups founded to commercialize the results of Drexel scientific research.
Present Tense: Drexel Art Now will focus on the personal studio work of 18 members of Westphal College’s faculty and staff. Forty artworks in total will be on display.
