Student Conference on Global Challenges – Energy & Environment”
Cooperate, Coordinate and Collaborate. February 20, 2009 – 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Date: Feb 20 the 2009
Time: All day conference
Venue: Behrakis Hall Grand Hall , Creese Student’s center, 32nd and Chestnut Street.
This conference will count toward the CEO credit. Student will only need to attend 2 panels and keynote speaker to receive full CEO credit.
Some of the biggest global challenges that we face today have to do with providing people with clean, safe, efficient, and affordable energy and promoting sustainable development. With increasing global interdependence we need to tackle these challenges both locally and globally and from a variety of different perspectives – scientific, economic, political , social , and cultural .
With this is mind, Drexel University’s Office of International Program ' s 2nd Annual Student Conference on Global Challenges will have the over-arching theme of "Energy and the Environment." The conference will bring together undergraduate and graduate student s to discuss these global challenges from wide rang e of perspectives through student panels on Global Media, Global Business Trends, Global Social and Economic Issues , Global Health, Global Science, Technology and Society , and Global Justice and Human Rights. The students will lead the panel discussions and faculty experts will moderate them . We see this conference as an ideal forum for sharing, discussing, learning, networking and collaboration and hope that it will produce new ideas and possible solutions to today’s global challenges.
Thank you for taking part in this unique student conference on global challenges. Student Panelist Applications will be available on December 15, 2008. Registration opens from January 1st 2009. For more information please contact us at oip@drexel.edu or call us at 215.895.6372
Keynote Speaker
Jerald L. Schnoor, Conference Keynote Speaker
Jerald L. Schnoor, Ph.D., P.E., DEE Allen S. Henry Chair in Engineering; Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Professor, Occupational and Environmental Health; and Co-Director, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research; The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. Professor Schnoor is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (elected in 1999) for his pioneering work using mathematical models in science policy decisions. He testified several times before Congress on the environmental effects of acid deposition and the importance of passing the 1990 Clean Air Act. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Science and Technology, the leading journal in both environmental engineering and environmental science. He chaired the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development from 2000-2004. Currently, Jerry is a Co-Director for the National Science Foundation Project Office on a WATer and Environmental Research Systems (WATERS) Network, a $250 million proposal to construct a national environmental observatory network for the sensing, modeling, and forecasting of environmental contaminants beginning in 2011.
