When public pools and many cooling centers closed this summer due to COVID-19, Drexel University researchers teamed up with the William Penn foundation and members of the Hunting Park community to ...

The Lenfest Foundation has awarded a three-year $5 million grant to University City District (UCD), the University City Science Center and Drexel University to accelerate career opportunities for ...

Grant will support Drexel's Second Story Collective, an arts-centered model for intergenerational co-housing, focused on affordable homeownership in West Philadelphia The Second Story Collective (2SC) ...

In Philadelphia, the path to kindergarten is made of many roads in different directions with various endpoints — even without a pandemic looming over that decision-making process. Neither ...

Drexel University’s Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation today released Catalyzing Community Capacity: How Philadelphia Can Create Equitable Right-of-Way Stewardship, a report on how to improve the ...

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Promise Neighborhood team in Drexel University’s Office of University and Community Partnerships has distributed the following items to community ...

"Following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, racial injustice was ripe and ready to be discussed. I started thinking about a course that would strengthen the curriculum and support the ...

A person’s words can stick with you, and a piece written as part of Drexel’s Writers Room literary arts program last year had some staying power. “I would love to turn my journals into memoir because ...

To fill Philadelphia's need for lifeguards at City pools this summer, a public-private partnership was created to train 13 local teens for the positions while providing employment and professional ...

This article was written by Parfait Kouacou, PhD, an associate teaching professor in the College of Art and Sciences, and the academic director of the Drexel Mandela Washington Fellowship Institute.

Karen Sams was up early on a mid-January morning, well before the sun rose, getting breakfast ready. Instead of scrambling eggs and fixing a meal for herself, though, she was in an assembly line at ...