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Beating the Heat — Safely and Sustainably — During the Pandemic

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 ...
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Drexel and Partners Receive $5 Million Lenfest Foundation Grant to Accelerate Career Training for Local Residents

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 ...
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B Smart Program Commits $25,000 to Support Small Businesses Owned by Women of Color

This story was written by Soneyet Muhammad, director of workforce and economic inclusion in the Office of University and Community Partnerships at Drexel University. On Jan. 14, the B Smart small ...
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Drexel Awarded $1 Million NSF Grant for Arts-Centered Model for Intergenerational Co-Housing

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) ...
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Drexel University Won’t Hold Classes on Election Day

To ensure Dragons make their voices heard in local and national elections, Drexel University students will not have classes on Election Day in 2024. In 2022 and 2023, students have had a shortened day ...
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Drexel Receives Inaugural Mellon Foundation Grant in Support of Humanities Approach to Social Justice

Drexel University is one of 26 institutions nationwide to receive an inaugural Higher Learning Open Call grant from the Mellon Foundation in support of social justice-related research and projects.
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Philly Community Groups Face Significant Barriers to Creating Public Amenities Like Parklets and Pedestrian Plazas

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 ...
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'West Africa to West Philly' Course Connects Language With 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 ...
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Drexel Program Offers Support for Children Starting Kindergarten in Promise Neighborhood

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 ...
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Q&A: The Drexel Employee Using His Front Porch to Support the Community

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 ...
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United Bank ATM expands the Minority-Owned Businesses Reach onto Drexel’s Campus

United Bank installed its first ATM on the University City Campus in the Daskalakis Athletic Center in November, the result of a partnership with the University. In 2020, when President John Fry met ...