Sonja Sherwood

Editor’s Letters

Sonja Sherwood

Editor’s Notebook

Going to college is essentially an act of personal optimism. You make a bargain with your intellect, your time and your wallet. The bargain is that you spend... Read More
Sonja Sherwood

Editor’s Notebook

Last month, the world commemorated the Normandy invasion that broke Hitler’s grip on Europe 70 years ago. I toured that French coastline 20 years ago, and I’ll... Read More
Sonja Sherwood

Editor’s Notebook

As I write this, in mid-February, Drexel University is shut down for the third time this year by a snowstorm. Drexel has a reputation for powering through winte... Read More

More of everything

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when I decided this magazine was going to be more fun than I imagined — and also, just more of everything. It’s not just that the... Read More

An Introduction

This was composed at high altitude in a tiny cabin alongside a trout lake in British Columbia, so forgive the fishing analogy I’m about to use. Lake HiHium, ... Read More
article placeholder

A Truly Ambitious University

If I had just one word to describe the Drexel that I’ve come to know over the past year and a half, that word would be this: Ambitious. So, if nothing else, ... Read More

About Our Cover

"This has got to be most entertaining thing that's happened here in a while." So said one of the research assistants in Drexel's Music and Entertainment Lab,... Read More

We’re Live!

Welcome to Drexel Magazine’s home on the Web. Since arriving here as Editor back in June, I’ve been working both with my team in the Office of University Com... Read More