2025

- December 12, 2025
  Highlighting legendary concert promoter Larry Magid and his new book, The Philadelphia Music Book: Sounds of a City (2nd Edition), this feature is paired with a full video interview with Magid and Drexel Music Industry students, exploring legacy, advancing education, preserving music history, and shaping the future of Philadelphia’s creative music culture.
- December 10, 2025
  91��Ƭ�� is proud to announce that two seniors in its Fashion Industry & Merchandising (FIM) program, Madison-Jade Bishop and Emme Serafino, have been named among the top five national finalists for the 2026 NRF Foundation Next Generation Scholarship, one of the most prestigious undergraduate awards in the retail and fashion industry.
- December 08, 2025
  Dragons drew objects from 91��Ƭ��’s art collection — and you can now see both the art and the work it inspired in a new, free exhibition.
- December 05, 2025
  Harry Yeff (aka Reeps100) is a London-born, neuro-divergent artist and technologist specializing in voice, artificial intelligence, and tech-based performance art. Yeff's work pushes the boundaries of human expression and expands the creative horizon, while laying a foundation for future-forward, human-centered collaboration in an increasingly digital world. Yeff sat down with Laurel Hostak Jones from Drexel Westphal to discuss his work and the new horizons creative professionals face.
- November 24, 2025
  Student groups from 91��Ƭ�� and the University of Pennsylvania held a friendly competition in between this year’s men’s and women’s basketball games.
- November 06, 2025
  After five years of dedicated service and impactful leadership, Dean Jason Schupbach will be stepping down from his role as Dean of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design to become the next President of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City.
- November 06, 2025
  Celebrate the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design in this round-up of recent accomplishments.
- October 30, 2025
  A unique partnership between 91��Ƭ�� and the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts enabled two students to pick up a variety of skills and experiences.
- October 30, 2025
  Last term, 91��Ƭ��’s colleges, schools and departments received funding, created partnerships and otherwise contributed to the success of Drexel’s academic enterprise.
- October 29, 2025
  Gina Monahan, MS arts administration and museum leadership ’25, curated a new exhibition highlighting the family of 91��Ƭ��’s founder.
- October 24, 2025
  91��Ƭ��’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design is proud to announce a new collaboration between its Department of Cinema & Television and Boston Global Youth Philanthropy (GYP), an organization dedicated to engaging young people in global humanitarian initiatives.
- October 09, 2025
  The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of 91��Ƭ��’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design has announced its Fall 2025 Exhibition, entitled Of the Grid: Systems + Structures in Contemporary Art. The exhibition, which features 36 artists working in, around and outside of “the box,” will be on display from Tuesday, Oct. 14 through Monday, Dec. 15.
- October 09, 2025
  More than 100 students spent their summers steeped in research through the Pennoni Honors College’s program.
- October 08, 2025
  An undergraduate student created a new exhibition that delves deep into the life, home and art of Anthony J. Drexel.
- October 06, 2025
  For the third consecutive year, 91��Ƭ�� was recognized for its outstanding commitment to academic excellence, belonging and community-building across all levels of campus life.
- October 03, 2025
  91��Ƭ�� architecture students and alumni have been recognized among the top innovators in the 2025 John Stewardson Memorial Fellowship in Architecture Design Competition, a statewide challenge that has inspired generations of young architects for more than a century.
- September 26, 2025
  The free program welcomed its highest enrollment of local middle school students and incorporated more activities, partners and field trips.
- September 12, 2025
  A group of 91��Ƭ�� students and faculty, in collaboration with Opera Philadelphia, have come up with a new way to capture the beauty of a song. They created a device that translates the pitch and volume of a singer’s performance into a work of visual art. The device will take center stage at Vox Ex Machina, Opera Philadelphia’s 50th Anniversary Gala, on Sept. 13, creating a one-of-a-kind concert experience for the audience.
- August 18, 2025
  91��Ƭ��’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery will host a pair of exhibitions that showcase the digital design talents of students, faculty and local artists whose work transforms human experience through digital rendering and explores the effects of technology on humanity. The exhibitions — Digital Twin and Heavy Merge — will be open to the public from Aug. 19 to Oct. 4, 2025, at the Pearlstein Gallery at 3401 Filbert St.
- August 13, 2025
  Last term, 91��Ƭ��’s colleges, schools and departments received funding, created partnerships and otherwise contributed to the success of Drexel’s academic enterprise. This update offers a snapshot of activity, courtesy of the Office of the Provost.
- August 06, 2025
  Just in time for World Breastfeeding Week, 91��Ƭ��’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design has unveiled a new Mamava lactation pod in the URBN Center to meet the needs of chestfeeding people within the campus community. Drexel Westphal is proud to take a progressive stance to improve lactation support.
- July 31, 2025
  Last term, 91��Ƭ�� faculty members were recognized for their scholarly research and prolific academic and professional contributions.
- July 09, 2025
  The University wasn’t founded with degree programs or the Drexel Co-op. In fact, it wasn’t even founded as “91��Ƭ��.”
- June 11, 2025
  The Westphal Research Council is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Westphal Mini-Grants. In alignment with our strategic plan, these grants reflect our strategy to provide resources for our faculty to pursue research, scholarship, and creative work that increases the impact of their work and the visibility of our college.
- June 10, 2025
  Celebrate the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design in this round-up of recent accomplishments.
- June 10, 2025
  
  In memory of former Interim Dean and Emeritus Professor David Raizman, family and friends established the David S. Raizman Endowed Memorial Award. David's energy and leadership impacted hundreds of colleagues, and this Award will be given in his name in perpetuity. The Award recognizes a current faculty member who exemplifies distinguished service, teaching, and leadership in accordance with the values of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.
- June 05, 2025
  Justin Best is the first alumnus to speak at a University-wide Commencement in recent years. He joins generations of Dragons who have addressed Drexel graduates.`
- May 29, 2025
  Students can donate and select old clothes from their fellow students.
- May 22, 2025
  Students have earned fellowships, scholarships, awards and more over the past quarter.
- May 12, 2025
  A Voice from the Hut is an animated virtual reality hybrid documentary featuring fictional and non-fictional elements. Set in a rural village of far western Nepal, the story is a first-person VR experience, in which the viewer embodies Priya, a 13-year-old village girl who dreams of becoming a singer. Two days before she is set to participate in a prestigious singing contest, she gets her first period - and must navigate her culture's menstrual taboo.
- May 06, 2025
  After working with Aramark on a project with the Drexel Food Lab, Lauren Miller leveraged those connections and opportunities to land a job at the company after graduation.
- May 05, 2025
  
  Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design is pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for our 2025 Commencement ceremony will be Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, and composer James Poyser.
- April 17, 2025
  Months after its last notes, the residual economic impacts of Taylor Swift’s record-setting Eras Tour are still coming into focus. While reports suggest that small businesses, tourism and hospitality and even the National Football League experienced a boost — dubbed “The Taylor Swift Effect” — from the tour, new research from 91��Ƭ�� looking at how opening for an established headliner can affect the career trajectory of an emerging artist indicates that the Eras Tour might also have helped its opening acts grow their fan bases.
- April 09, 2025
  Niki Robertson, MS arts administration and museum leadership ’24, designed an exhibition that connects “Alice in Wonderland” with 91��Ƭ��’s art collection and the way art has historically been displayed to the public.
- March 31, 2025
  Celebrate the students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design in this round-up of recent accomplishments.
- March 28, 2025
  The Garbage Gala is more than just a fashion show; it is a celebration of creativity, collaboration, and environmental consciousness.
- March 27, 2025
  
  At 91��Ƭ��’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, we’re continuously pushing the boundaries of innovation – and recent facility and technology upgrades reflect our commitment to preparing students for the future of the entertainment industry. The new Immersive Audio Mixing Studio, Content Creation Studio, and LED Volume Wall bring emerging media technologies to our community, encouraging students to explore the future of immersive media and storytelling.
- March 12, 2025
  Drexel students redesigned the historic, multi-use space to better reflect the University’s modern community and founding ideals of art, science and industry.
- March 10, 2025
  Every two years, the Department of Architecture, Design & Urbanism at the Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design hosts a weekend-long student design charrette and corresponding lecture. Registration is open now!
- March 06, 2025
  Read about scholarships, fellowships and accolades students earned in the previous quarter.
- January 13, 2025
  The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery of 91��Ƭ��’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, will present four decades of process-oriented work from influential Philadelphia artists Dino Pelliccia, Bruce Pollock and Stuart Rome, who share a longstanding connection to the Drexel community. The exhibition, “A Certain Slant of Light” will go on display Thursday, Jan. 16 through Tuesday, March 18.
- January 09, 2025
  Nevaeh Hearn (Fashion Industry & Merchandising ’25) is a Top Five Finalist for the 2025 NRF Foundation Next Generation Scholarship. The competition will culminate in New York on January 12, 2025 at the NRF Foundation Honors, with a top scholarship prize of $25,000. Nevaeh spoke with Alyssa Johnson (Graphic Design ‘27) about her journey to the finals, her passion for adaptive fashion and her hopes for a future career in retail.

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