How is Philadelphia doing compared to other major U.S. cities when it comes to personal fitness? According to new rankings released by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the greater Philadelphia region is in […]
Quick Take: Drexel Public Health Expert Weighs Impact of Racial Health Inequality on Elections
By Kim Menard New research shows that premature death among racial groups translates into political inequities. To change racial health inequalities, voting is a critical step to influence the political process. Drexel School of Public […]
A Portal to an Unexpected World
Photographer Stuart Rome has always had a unique perspective on the world. From the early days of his career photographing ancient art treasures in Latin America or contemporary trance rituals in Haiti and Indonesia, he became […]
A Haunting Look at Human Beings
In 1993, prison inmates breaking ground for a new hospital wing at the Colorado Mental Health Institute made a gruesome discovery: the skeletons of more than 100 people buried in a mass grave at least […]
How to Build a Street Festival
Joseph Esposito, a senior in the Westphal College’s entertainment and arts management program, has been skateboarding since he was eight and working with Philadelphia’s Franklin’s Paine Skatepark Fund since coming to the city, but he […]
Asteroid Crash Kicked Off Mega-Volcano in the Process that Killed Dinosaurs, According to New Study
When an enormous asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, a planet-wide quake shook the magma plumbing of a massive, active volcano—radically changing the style of volcanic eruption in one of the planet’s rarest, largest […]
Why Diet Apps Fail
It’s actually not complicated at all. The reason most smartphone diet apps fail has nothing to do with the diet, and little to do with the app. A team of Drexel researchers is working on […]
Has Car Culture Crashed?
It’s been roughly a century since we were introduced to automobiles. But, as Americans buy fewer cars, drive less and get fewer licenses as each year goes by, it’s impossible not to wonder: has America […]
Quick Take: Police Accountability and #Ferguson2Baltimore
As demonstrators continue to fill the streets of Baltimore in the wake of the mysterious death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old African American man who died while in police custody, many are drawing comparisons to […]
Quick Take: Dov Jaron, A Pioneer of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel
“I think that you learn a great deal from what other people do and you come up with ideas you never thought could be applicable to your own specialty.” – Dov Jaron, PhD, (IEEE Xplore, […]