Press Releases

Select press releases appear below. For up to the minute news and information, please see the news ticker on the home page or PhilaU Today, Philadelphia University's weekly source for information. To contact media relations at Philadelphia University, email PR@PhilaU.edu or call 215.951.2851.

Select Press Releases from 2012:

2/1: Philadelphia University and TD Bank collaborate on project to design new energy-efficient bank of the future

1/10: McGraw-Hill publishes ninth edition of Philadelphia University President Spinelli’s popular textbook “New Venture Creation”

Select Press Releases from 2011:

12/15: Philadelphia University researchers receive $200,000 grant for work on bacteria-killing textiles that could help curb hospital infections

12/05: Philadelphia University industrial design program receives enthusiastic reaccreditation from National Association of Schools of Art and Design

11/18: Philadelphia University industrial design program receives enthusiastic reaccreditation from National Association of Schools of Art and Design

11/15: Philadelphia University names new Trustees to Board

10/31: Philadelphia University and Honeywell launch energy awareness and education campaign

10/05: Designer Tommy Hilfiger will visit Philadelphia University on Tuesday, Oct. 11

08/29: Philadelphia University receives rigorous ABET accreditation for Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering programs

07/06: Philadelphia University hosts Reebok Breakout Challenge basketball camp featuring some of the nation’s top high school hoopsters July 6 to 9

06/11: Philadelphia University to break ground on academic building to support the innovative curriculum of the College of Design, Engineering and Commerce on Friday, June 10

04/27: Philadelphia University will honor Tomio Taki, a leader in textile and apparel manufacturing, with the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters on Friday, April 29

04/26: Philadelphia University will honor five outstanding Leaders during its Evening of Innovation on Saturday, April 30

04/13: Steve Blank, entrepreneur, educator and author, to speak at Philadelphia University’s Commencement on Sunday, May 15 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts

04/04: Philadelphia University’s legendary Men’s Basketball Coach Herb Magee will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

03/29: Philadelphia University fashion students will compete in Project Capucci runway show on Friday, April 1, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

03/16: Philadelphia University Physician Assistant Studies program ranked 18th nationally by U.S. News and World Report

03/01: Philadelphia University fashion design students to showcase “Springtime in Paris” fashions at Philadelphia International Flower Show

01/18: Tommy Hilfiger, renowned designer known for preppy American sportswear style, will receive the 2011 Spirit of Design Award at the Philadelphia University Fashion Show

01/15: Philadelphia University and MAG establish new Composites Institute to develop textile-based composites for industrial applications

Select Press Releases from 2010:

11/22: Philadelphia University Announces Groundbreaking New College of Design, Engineering and Commerce

11/10: Philadelphia University’s new Center for Sustainability, Energy Efficiency and Design built to achieve LEED certification

10/10: Philadelphia University senior business students win $4,000 first place prize in Toys“R”Us case competition

09/10: Planning for Green Trail project to promote green space, business and work force initiatives in West Philadelphia to kick off Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 5 p.m. at Philadelphia University

08/31: Dr. Jeffrey Ashley, environmental chemist at Philadelphia University, releases study on PCB contaminants in popular fish oil supplements

07/08: Philadelphia University Announces Plans for a Library to House Senator Arlen Specter’s Archives

06/08: Philadelphia University’s advanced Laboratory for Engineered Human Protection to receive $1.29 million from the U.S. Department of Defense for research on military apparel

05/03: Philadelphia University will honor leaders of innovation and the best of this year’s student designs at the Spirit of Innovation Gala and Annual Fashion Show on Saturday, May 8

04/12: U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., to speak at Philadelphia University Commencement on Sunday, May 16 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts

03/10: Philadelphia University Textile Design Students Sweep International Stylesight Competition

03/09: Philadelphia University Men’s Basketball Coach Herb Magee Honored by Philadelphia Mayor Nutter at City Hall Ceremony

02/23: Philadelphia University’s Legendary Men’s Basketball
Coach Herb Magee Notches 903rd Career Win, Tops Record of Bobby Knight

02/03: Philadelphia University’s Legendary Men’s Basketball
Coach Herb Magee Poised for 900th Career Win

01/28: Ecoman and the Skeptic, PhilaU’s award-winning green radio show, launches third season Thursday, Jan. 28, 3 to 4 p.m.