Crosswalk – Drexel Magazine

New Thinking About Urban Challenges

In its quest to find new ways to solve the challenges facing Philadelphia and other cities, the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel has invited three... Read More

Schuylkill Yards Breaks Ground

A new community park is coming to the corner of 30th and Market streets courtesy of Drexel and Brandywine Realty Trust. Known as Drexel Square, the park is th... Read More

Good to See You at Alumni Weekend

The rain couldn’t dampen the fun at Alumni Weekend on May 17 to 19! Dragons descended on campus and throughout Philadelphia for events like the Young Alumni Bee... Read More

NSA Agents Can Score College Creds at Drexel

For more than half a century, national security agents in training have enrolled in the National Cryptologic School to dive deep into everything from fore... Read More

New Lab for Smart Fabrics

Imagine a computer keyboard knit from yarn, embedded with touch sensors and bluetooth, so soft and flexible it could be crumpled into a pocket. Such a dev... Read More

Future Chefs Learn to Reduce Food Waste

Of the 63 million tons of food that goes to waste in the United States every year, about a third is wasted by restaurants and commercial food service busine... Read More

A Greener Campus by 2030

If you close your eyes and think about what’s causing climate change, you’re probably picturing industrial smokestacks and gridlocked highways. But according to... Read More

Extra Help for First-Gen College Students

An estimated 30 percent of Drexel’s full-time undergraduate students are the first in their families to go to a four-year college, but it’s not always easy for ... Read More

$100,000 Halftime Show

Isaiah Hoffman, a premed student who hopes to find a cure for Alzheimer’s, won the Dr. Pepper Tuition Giveaway in 2017. How many footballs can yo... Read More