Features – Drexel Magazine

Is Anybody Out There?

A mere two weeks before COVID-19 lockdowns arrived last spring, a seventh grader from Virginia wrote the winning essay in a contest to name NASA’s new M... Read More

The Future of Fabric

As thousands of Americans fired up their sewing machines to make masks last spring, Geneviève Dion, the director of Drexel’s Center for Functional Fabri... Read More

40 under 40: Class of 2021

AOS.init(); About the nominees... No one expected a year like the one we’ve had, but Drexel’s young 40 Under 40 greeted it with grit. ... Read More

The House That Stan Built

Stan Lane ’61, outside the recently expanded flagship Ronald McDonald House in West Philadelphia. The Wilson family of six, all smiles, press around St... Read More

Food Lab Menu Lets Nothing Go to Waste at Terrain Café

Executive chef Brian Lofink ’03 and fifth-year and co-op student Anna Wilson plate a panzanella salad in the kitchen of terrain’s garden café in Glen Mill... Read More

Students’ ‘Serious’ Game Humanizes the Refugee Crisis

In “Resilience,” the first-person player is a humanitarian worker of the Murian species, who must manage the camp’s budget, build facilities and maintain re... Read More

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Social Justice Syllabus

When George Floyd died under the knee of a white police officer on a Minneapolis street this past May, the world collectively recoiled in horror. His ... Read More

A Philosophy of West Philadelphia’s Future

President John Fry takes in the new Drexel Square park outside the renovated Bulletin Building at 3025 Market Street. Here, at 30th and Market streets,... Read More

7-Story Twitter Scroll

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