Today the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service released the annual report on food insecurity in the United States. They report that 17.6 million households, or 14.5 percent, were food insecure in […]

Today the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service released the annual report on food insecurity in the United States. They report that 17.6 million households, or 14.5 percent, were food insecure in […]
The “Don’t Wash Your Chicken” food safety campaign developed by Drexel researchers in collaboration with New Mexico State University has made a big splash in the news over the past week or so – and […]
You might not expect radio to be the medium popularizing an old photo, but so it is this month, with a photo of some extraordinary medical students in Pennsylvania in 1885, who were featured on […]
Experts from Drexel’s Earle Mack School of Law and School of Public Health are available to comment for news stories about today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that the Defense of Marriage Act […]
This week, a photo exhibit at the headquarters of the Campbell Soup Company marked the debut of the Camden, N.J. site of Drexel’s “Witnesses to Hunger” program. Photos from 10 low-income Camden women were on […]
In the aftermath of a building collapse last week in Philadelphia that killed six people in a Salvation Army thrift store and injured more than a dozen others, have we considered the impact on first […]
Dr. Amy Auchincloss, an assistant professor in Drexel’s School of Public Health, was the lead author of a study recently published in the journal Obesity, showing that healthy food access in neighborhoods may have helped […]
Did you know that an estimated 25 million Americans are living gluten-free? A gluten-free diet excludes foods containing gluten, a protein complex found in grains such as wheat, barley and rye. While millions of people […]
A message from Dr. Mariana Chilton: This Sunday I am proud to celebrate Mother’s Day by talking about the hunger and poverty faced by too many mothers on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show (10am, MSNBC). I […]
From the iconic T-Rex at the entrance to the active fossil prep lab tucked away in the back corner, Dinosaur Hall at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is a delight for the […]