Whether you are getting ready for a gory Halloween movie marathon, taking it to the streets to trick-or-treat – or priming your costume for a spooky soiree, remember, as we indulge in the spirit of […]
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Drexel Snapshot: This Magical Wardrobe Will Transport You Through Fashion History
From designs by Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel to Christian Dior and Oscar de la Renta, the long-awaited and highly anticipated Immortal Beauty: Highlights of the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection exhibition – now open to […]
Drexel Welcomes Convocation Speaker Freeman Hrabowski
It’s that time of the year again. On Oct. 22, Drexel faculty and staff will don their colorful regalia to celebrate the start of a new academic year by observing the time-honored tradition that is […]
How a Health Historian Became a Comedy Headliner
Sometimes comedy is all about the timing: The Yellow Fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793 was absolutely not funny at the time when it left 5000 Philadelphians dead. “But more than 200 years […]
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 […]
Venezuelans Won’t Go Back
By Dr. George Ciccariello-Maher Hugo Chávez is gone, but he remains as controversial in death as he was in life. This is of no small import as Venezuelans head to the polls this weekend to […]
Will the World End Tomorrow? Drexel’s Mayan History Expert Says No
If you haven’t started your Christmas shopping yet because you were counting on the apocalypse taking place on Friday, December 21, 2012 – as many people claim the Mayan calendar predicts – Drexel anthropologist Dr. […]