Constantine Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building

Bringing the Best and Brightest to Drexel

Dynamic growth over the past decade has propelled Drexel University into the ranks of the nation’s top 50 private research institutions. Nowhere is this development more evident than within Drexel’s Biology Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, which has developed exponentially over the past five years and now has an enrollment of 650 students. This expansion has resulted in the emergence of the Biology Department as the University’s largest academic unit. The University’s Biology faculty constitutes a critical component in Drexel’s plans to successfully expand its research base, which has grown to over $100 million in research expenditures annually for each of the last four years. During this period, the Biology Department has doubled its research support from $4 to $8 million and has begun recruiting “star faculty” - moves which have further bolstered its national academic reputation.

The Constantine Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building will become an enormous strategic asset in Drexel’s on-going recruitment of talented students, accomplished faculty, and pioneering researchers. For the first time in Drexel’s history, academic and research initiatives in biology, the life sciences, and ecology and environmental sciences will be housed under one roof, in state-of-the-art facilities, of a caliber consistent with a top-tier research institution.