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Time & Place: Disaster Simulation Lab

Photo by Jeff Fusco Before the world was faced with an all-too-real contagion, Drexel nursing students were already training to cope with the chaos and dan... Read More

Letters to the Editor: Summer 2020

We Bought a Hospital Congratulations for editing another smash edition of Drexel Magazine! The description in the fall 2019 edition of how Hahnemann and ... Read More

Oh Hello, Upheaval

I was writing for a business magazine based in New York in 2001. That year, the market crash dashed dot-com dreams and the economy tanked. It was the year E... Read More

The View from Main: Summer 2020

One of my first messages to the Drexel community about the pandemic noted that “much about this new virus remains unknown.” Even after all that we learned s... Read More

Campaign Successes

In March, Drexel marked a milestone of more than $615 million raised during its most ambitious fundraising campaign, thanks in large part to generous alumni. Th... Read More

100 Years of Co-Op

Drexel’s co-op program, which celebrates its centennial this year, grew slowly from its start in 1919. But it has picked up speed in the modern era as the need ... Read More

Time & Place: Immersive Research Lab

“IRL” is gamer argot for things that happen “in real life” rather than inside a virtual reality world. It’s a fitting acronym for the Immersive Research Lab, a ... Read More

We Bought a Hospital

Twenty-one years ago, a major Pennsylvania hospital system collapsed; this summer, the other shoe dropped when Hahnemann University Hospital shuttered. In s... Read More

The View from Main: Fall 2019

If there is one thing I’m confident your years at Drexel taught you well, it is how to face and make the most of each challenge in life. As I reflect on the... Read More