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 […]
A Matter of Leadership
By Frank Linnehan A recent op-ed piece in the Inquirer by Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, offered sound financial reasons why Philadelphia is unlikely to follow Detroit in filing for bankruptcy. Among the […]
Drexel Business Professors Comment on Potential Next Fed Chair
As the current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke prepares to step down in Jan. 2014 and the media buzz over who will succeed him grows louder, three finance professors from Drexel University’s LeBow College […]
Experts Available to Comment on 50th Anniversary of March on Washington
On August 28, citizens from across the country will converge on our nation’s capital to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. President Obama will honor the anniversary […]
What’s Next for Saks Fifth Avenue After Deal with Lord & Taylor Parent?
The elite retail store Saks Fifth Avenue surprised consumers last week when it announced it would be sold for $2.4 billion to the Toronto-based Hudson’s Bay, the parent company of Lord & Taylor. What will […]
Why can’t the snakes cross the road, secret lives of baby snakes and other New Jersey Pineland snake science
Why can’t the pine snakes cross the road? Hint: New Jersey traffic might have something to do with it. Drexel students will bring to light these and other findings about the plight, perils and peculiarities […]
A Robot Training to Save Lives
The next time disaster strikes, human rescue workers might not have to put themselves into harm’s way to save lives. Drexel is participating in an international challenge to design a robot for responding to crisis […]
A Building Engineer’s Tips for Keeping Cool in Hot Weather
Whether you’re dialing down the thermostat, hoisting a window unit into place or creating a wind tunnel of fans, it’s been a challenge to keep cool during record temperatures this summer. And comfort comes at […]
From India, Japan and Syria, 19th Century Women Who Trekked to Philadelphia for Medical School
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 […]
Drexel’s Moth Goes Full Circle
It was a surprise to Jon Gelhaus, curator of entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences, when he came across the photo of a modest-looking moth in a book a few months ago. It was […]