Drexel University

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

May 14, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$1,014,902,481

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Researchdrexel researchers work across disciplines to increase the world's store of knowledge and translate that new knowledge into solutions with tremendous positive impact on society. The university's research enterprise continues to grow and attract increasing extramural support, including sponsored research funding of $111.8 million in fy2013. In the most recent year, five drexel faculty members received national science foundation career awards, supporting promising young researchers nationwide. Their recognition points to the potential for drexel's research enterprise to continue to grow its impact in years to come.drexel is committed to using its research and technological expertise to become an even more powerful economic engine for greater philadelphia, helping to create new high-tech businesses and jobs. In 2013 the university launched drexel ventures, a new enterprise facilitating the commercialization of drexel inventions in partnership with regional and national entrepreneurs, and the charles d. Close school of entrepreneurship, which will integrate entrepreneurship and innovation support across drexel's curriculum and provide leadership for the region's community of new business developers. Drexel is specifically committed to translational research, rigorous academic work that tangibly translates into intellectual progress and social good. Working with the wallace h. Coulter foundation, which helped drexel establish a $20 million translational research endowment in 2011, the university has become a model for best practices in the field, mentoring institutions across the united states and the world to increase the capacity for life-saving and society-changing discovery.recent research highlights have included robotics (where a drexel-led team was chosen to participate in a darpa challenge to improve disaster response), watershed protection (through a grant from the william penn foundation to scientists in the academy of natural science of drexel university) and workplace safety (where school of public health researchers showed that changing hospital data collection could prevent occupational health hazards), to name just a few.drexel's researchers continue to build the global partnerships that will be critical to create 21st-century solutions to america's challenges. The past year saw new relationships and collaborations with institutions from china to turkey to brazil and chile.during fy13, drexel university conducted research on the following research grants:federally sponsored research - 586 grantsstate of pennsylvania sponsored research - 50 grantscity of philadelphia contracts - 10 grantsprivate foundation sponsored research - 142 grantsindustry sponsored research - 63 grants

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EIN

23-1352630