Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design

The Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design (AWCoMAD) formerly the College of Media Arts and Design (CoMAD) is one of the colleges of Drexel University. In 2005 the college was renamed after alumnae Antoninette Passo Westphal at the request of her husband after one of the largest private donation to the university in its history. The college is the home to the Mandell Theater, the Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel’s television station (DUTV), the Kal Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies, MAD Dragon Records and Drexel’s Historic Costume Collection. The college was originally created within the Drexel Institute as the Department of Domestic Economy in 1891. Throughout its existence it has been known as the School of...