On March 1, the University celebrated another milestone with the dedication of the Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center, the new focal point of Drexel’s growing research programs. Designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the Bossone Center joins the Leonard Pearlstein Business Learning Center, North Hall and the Paul Peck Alumni Center as another impressive Drexel building designed by a world-renowned architect.

The Center’s state-of-the-art facilities and labs will strengthen the research capabilities of our faculty and students and broaden the scope and depth of our research programs. The multi-use building will provide facilities for faculty and students from various departments in the University, notably the College of Engineering and the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. The Center will house research facilities for tissue engineering, drug delivery, biomedical imaging and advanced materials development as well as our Nanotechnology Institute and the Center for Telecommunication and Information Assurance.

Not only will the beautiful Bossone Center benefit Drexel’s students and faculty, it will also serve the Philadelphia research community. The Center will be home to the Drexel Research Resources Center, a central materials characterization facility containing Raman spectroscopes, high-resolution transmission and scanning electron microscopes and atomic force microscopes. Staffed by expert technicians, the Research Resources Center will be available for use by regional organizations and the academic and corporate communities of Greater Philadelphia.

The Center would not have been possible without the support of our donors, especially alumnus Edmund Bossone, ’53 and his wife Kathleen, for whom the Center is named. I would also like to thank our students, faculty and staff for their support during the Center’s construction.

Now that the Bossone Center is complete, I invite all members of the Drexel community to stop by and see firsthand this impressive facility that will be home to the exciting and groundbreaking research that is taking place at the University.

C.R. "Chuck" Pennoni Interim President