Time & Place

Time and Place: Lee Cultural Center Pool, West Philadelphia

Public swimming pools across the country have struggled to remain open in recent years as declining interest and pandemic disruption have dried up the supply of new lifeguards. In Philadelphia,…

Time & Place: Health Sciences Building Opens

First-year students weren’t the only ones moving packed boxes into new digs this fall. Entire academic programs said goodbye forever to rented Center City office spaces and relocated permanently to…

Time & Place: The Biowall

Ten years after it was installed as the largest living biofilter in North America, Drexel’s Biowall was successfully renovated and updated over the fall and winter to be greener than…

Time & Place: 7-Story Twitter Scroll

Nesbitt Hall’s facade turned into a giant Twitter feed for civil dialogue this spring.

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 danger of a pandemic, through…

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 facility that…

Time & Place: Diorama Restoration at the Academy of Natural Sciences

The low-lit halls of the Academy of Natural Sciences are home to mighty bison, musk-ox, sleepy pandas, lions, tigers and yak — all frozen in time and place. Sealed behind…

Time & Place: Novacare Complex, South Philadelphia

Inside the NovaCare Complex, the Philadelphia Eagles’ sprawling training facility near Lincoln Financial Field, children are swarming around pro bowler Malcolm Jenkins as he plays tour guide. They listen intently…

Time & Place: Dynamic Multifunctional Materials Lab

2.23.16 Dynamic Multifunctional Materials Laboratory Leslie Lamberson knows a thing or two about pushing past limits. In the three and half years that she’s been at Drexel — where she…

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