Monday, July 9, 2007

Quote of the Week
"We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough."
-Rabbi Harold Kushner


Topics of the Week
01. Drexel Mock Trial Association's Summer 2007 Competition
02. Open House for Executive Master's of Science in IT Leadership on Thursday
03. Engineering a Better World Conference
04. JUSA Holding Tryouts for Fall Talent Show
05. Delta Zeta to Hold Popsicle Sale on Thursday
06. Vendor Fair at Queen Lane
07. SCDC to Hold Independent Job Search Workshop
08. Project Imagine
09. This Week on The Drexel InterView
10. World Cafe Live Presents Danielia Cotton and Jennifer Glass
11. Free Tickets to Disney's High School Musical
12. Philadelphia to Host the IFC Free Film Fest
13. "Suspense on the Banks"
14. Drexel News Media Watch

 
Drexel Mock Trial Association's Summer 2007 Competition

The Drexel Mock Trial Association, in conjunction with the prelaw program, is accepting applications from individuals interested in participating in the first intramural, mock trial competition on Saturday, August 25, 2007. Prizes will be awarded to competitors.

No prior mock trial experience is necessary. Coaching will be a mandatory part of competition preparation. Coaching will be offered by students with prior mock trial experience, law students and area attorneys.

Registration is required and the deadline is Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at midnight. To register online, visit http://www.dumocktrial.org.

For more information, contact dumocktrial@gmail.com.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

 
Open House for Executive Master of Science in IT Leadership on Thursday

The iSchool at Drexel, the College of Information Science and Technology, will hold an open house for its executive master of science in information technology leadership program on Thursday, July 12, 2007, from 6 to 8 p.m. in suite 200, The Hub, Cira Centre (attached to 30th Street Station, 2929 Arch Street).

The Open House will present information about how the executive master of science in information technology leadership can elevate IT's business value and create tomorrow's technology leaders.

To register for the event, visit http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/emsitl/openhouse.

For more information on the program, contact Mario De Marco at 215-895-2579 or mario.demarco@ischool.drexel.edu.

Approved under the authority of Dr. Stephen W. Director, Provost

 

Engineering a Better World

The Drexel chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will present the "Engineering a Better World" conference from today, July 9 through Thursday, July 12, 2007, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the William F. Mitchell Auditorium, Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center (Market Street between 31st and 32nd Streets). Refreshments will be served.

The conference will feature speakers currently working in politics or on mobilizing engineering efforts in foreign countries, including:

This conference is open to students, faculty, and staff.

For more information, contact ieee@ece.drexel.edu or visit http://www.ece.drexel.edu/IEEE/conference.html.
For more information on IEEE, visit http://www.ece.drexel.edu/IEEE.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

 
JUSA Holding Tryouts for Fall Talent Show

The Japanese Undergraduate Student Association (JUSA) will hold a talent show in the fall term. The first tryouts are scheduled for Monday, July 16, 2007, at 6 p.m. in the Main Building auditorium (32nd and Chestnut Streets).

JUSA is looking for entertaining and cultural acts. Potential performers are invited to show off their talents and meet people.

For more information, contact drexelujusa@gmail.com.

Approved under the authority of James R. Tucker, Senior Vice President for Student Life and Administrative Services

 
Delta Zeta to Hold Popsicle Sale on Thursday

Delta Zeta will sell popsicles in the Quad (between 32nd and 33rd Streets and Chestnut and Market Streets) on Thursday, July 12, 2007, from noon to 2 p.m. to benefit the Sound Beginnings program.

Delta Zeta has been involved with service to speech and hearing organizations for more than five decades. Sound Beginnings raises awareness of the need for newborn hearing screenings. It is important to identify hearing loss before 6 months of age to begin early intervention, if needed.

For more information, contact Courtney Howe at howe.courtney@gmail.com or Jeanie Lynch at rl74@drexel.edu.

Approved under the authority of James R. Tucker, Senior Vice President for Student Life and Administrative Services

 
Vendor Fair at Queen Lane

Drexel University Procurement will host a vendor fair with representatives from VWR/McConnell Supply Groups, July 11, 2007, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Queen Lane Medical Campus' Atrium (2900 Queen Lane). Lunch vouchers will be given out to be used at the Queen Lane Medical Campus cafeteria only.

The fair is part of the University Procurement announcement of The VWR/McConnell Supply Group's initiative, which offers specially priced VWR products to Drexel through the minority-owned McConnell Group.

Attendees are encouraged to come prepared with questions about products and new promotions being offered by vendors supplying the health sciences campuses.

This event is free and open to Drexel faculty and staff.

For more information, contact University Procurement at procurement@drexel.edu.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

 
SCDC to Hold Independent Job Search Workshop

The Career Services library assistant will hold a workshop titled "Conducting Your Independent Job Search at the Library" on Thursday, July 11, 2007, at 2 p.m. in Room L-33/34, Hagerty Library (33rd and Market Streets).

The workshop will introduce students to a variety of print and electronic library resources that will assist in the independent job search process. Students will learn how to use the library's electronic databases to generate lists of potential employers in their fields of interest.

The workshop is open to all members of the Drexel community, including alumni. Registration is required. To register, email Jenny Roberts at jroberts@drexel.edu.

For more information, contact Jenny Roberts at 215-895-6843 or jroberts@drexel.edu.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

 

Exhibit: Project Imagine

Project Imagine is an exhibition featuring the work of Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design fashion design students. Nexus Philadelphia will hold the exhibit at the Crane Arts Building (1400 N. American Street, between 2nd and 3rd streets, Philadelphia) from July 12 through July 23, 2007. Gallery Hours are by appointment. A reception will be held Thursday, July 12, 2007 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Project Imagine will feature:

The Project Imagine exhibit is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact info@nexusphiladelphia.org or visit http://www.nexusphiladelphia.org/

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

This Week on The Drexel InterView

The Drexel InterView, hosted by Dr. Paula Marantz Cohen, Distinguished Professor of English, is broadcast on Drexel University Television (DUTV) and WYBE-TV, Philadelphia Public Television.

Tuesday, July 9, 2007, on DUTV
Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali (above right), Archbishop of Philadelphia, will be Dr. Cohen's guest on The Drexel InterView at 8 p.m. The show will be rebroadcast at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 10; Saturday, July 14; Sunday, July 15 and Monday, July 16. DUTV is broadcast throughout Philadelphia on Comcast Cable and Urban Cableworks on Channel 54 and on Channel 48 in Center City and South Philadelphia, Channel 62 in West Philadelphia and Channel 99 in North Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill and Germantown.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007, on WYBE
Rabbi Harold S. Kushner (above left), author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, will be Dr. Cohen's guest on The Drexel InterView at 9:30 a.m.

For more information about Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali, visit http://www.archdiocese-phl.org/rigali/indexrigali.htm.
For more information about Rabbi Kushner, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Kushner.
For more information aboutThe Drexel InterView, visit http://www.drexel.edu/thedrexelinterview.
For more information about WYBE, visit http://www.wybe.org.
For more information about DUTV, visit http://www.dutv.org.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

 
World Cafe Live Presents Danielia Cotton and Jennifer Glass

On Stage Live at World Cafe Live is hosted by WXPN-FMs David Dye, who also fronts the National Public Radio nationally syndicated World Cafe Live radio program and features Michaela Majoun, the host of WXPN's Morning Show, who interviews the artists. The series is broadcast nationally on Sundays at 11 p.m. by WHYY-AM/Philadelphia, and is filmed before a live audience at the World Cafe Live.

July 15, 2007 at 11 p.m.
Danielia Cotton (above left) performs her own version of AC/DC's "Back in Black."
Jennifer Glass (above right) performs a combination of country and rock.

For more information on Danielia Cotton, visit http://www.danielia.com/.
For more information on Jennifer Glass, visit http://www.jenniferglass.net/.
For more information on the World Cafe Live, visit http://www.worldcafelive.com/.
For more information about On Stage Live at the World Cafe Live, visit http://worldcafelive.com/onstage/.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

Free Tickets to Disney's High School Musical

Pennoni Honors College and the Center for Civic Engagement have 100 free tickets for High School Musical on Thursday, July 12, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Music (Broad and Locust Streets).

Tickets are available to students, faculty and staff on a first-come first-served basis and can be picked up from the Pennoni Honors College, room 5016, MacAlister Hall (33rd and Chestnut Streets).

For more information, contact Bob Olczak at robert.olczak@drexel.edu or 215-895-1609.
For more information about the Academy of Music, visit http://www.academyofmusic.org/.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

Philadelphia to Host the IFC Free Film Fest

The Independent Film Channel (IFC) Free Film Fest is a traveling festival bringing independent films to parks across the country this summer. In Philadelphia, IFC will present three movies in three nights outside and under the stars on Schuylkill Banks: Raising Arizona, The Princess Bride and Napoleon Dynamite.

The movies will be shown at Schuylkill River Park (Locust and 25th Streets) on July 10, 11 and 12, 2007.

IFC Free Film Fest will showcase local filmmakers in the Media Lab Lounge.

IFC is partnering with the nonprofit organization, Kid Flicks, which is collecting donations of G, PG and PG-13 DVDs for a new entertainment library at Temple University Children’s Medical Center. Donations will be collected at the screenings.

For more information on the IFC Film Fest, visit http://www.ifc.com/freefilmfest.
For more information on Schuylkill Banks and the Schuylkill River Park, visit http://www.schuylkillbanks.org.
For more information on Kid Flicks, visit http://www.kidflicks.org.
For more information on the Media Lab Lounge, visit http://medialab.ifc.com.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

  

"Suspense on the Banks"

Schuylkill Banks presents "Suspense on the Banks" every other Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at the Walnut Street Bridge (25th and Walnut Streets, underneath the Walnut Street bridge along the Schuylkill River).

The Suspense on the Banks summer movie schedule:

For more information, call Erin at 215-222-6030, ext. 100, or visit http://www.schuylkillbanks.org/newsView.aspx?topicID=0&newsID=43 .

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

 
Drexel News Media Watch

The Pennsylvania Lawyer’s July-August 2007 front-page story features the Drexel University College of Law Mini-Medical School for Attorneys. Carl “Tobey” Oxholm III, senior vice president and general counsel, Dr. David Stein, assistant professor of surgery in the Drexel University College of Medicine, and Dr. Ari Brooks, assistant director of the Drexel University College of Medicine, were featured in the story.

The University was noted in a ScienceDaily.com story published on July 4, 2007, for its participation in the End Users Shaping Effective Software Consortium. The consortium developed a simpler approach to fixing errors in spreadsheets that might help businesses reduce mistakes and save billions of dollars.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070628071648.htm

Dr. Myrna Shure, professor of psychology, is quoted in a story published in Philadelphia Weekly on July 5, 2007, about two children’s relationship with their father, Art Bell, a talk show host.
http://www.phillyweekly.com/articles/14998

The Dragon Summer Program was noted in City Paper on July 5, 2007.

A front-page story published in The Philadelphia Business Journal’s June 29-July 5, 2007, issue features the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute’s collaboration with NanoBlox. Dr. Yury Gogotsi, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, and Dr. Vadym Mochalin, a post-doctoral researcher in Gogotsi’s group who leads the joint nanodiamond project between Drexel and NanoBlox, appeared in photographs.

Drexel’s partnership with Burlington County College was noted in The News Journal (Wilmington, Del.) and the Burlington County Times (N.J.) on July 2, 2007.
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070630/NEWS/706300346/1006/NEWS
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-07022007-1371955.html

A Nurse.com story published on July 2, 2007, featured the College of Nursing and Health Professions’ Center for Interdisciplinary Clinical Simulation and Practice. Dr. Gloria F. Donnelly, dean of and professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, and Dr. Leland “Rocky” Rockstraw, director of the Center for Clinical and Electronic Learning Resources and Center for Interdisciplinary Clinical Simulation and Practice in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, are quoted in the story.
http://news.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070702/PHILADELPHIA09/706280301/1009/PHILADELPHIA

News of men’s basketball coach Bruiser Flint’s role as assistant coach of this summer’s USA Basketball Men’s U19 World Championship Team continues to receive coverage. Stories were published on June 30 and July 1, 2007, on the Web sites of Scout College Basketball and KATV-TV (ABC-Little Rock, Ark.), Salem-News.com and many other sites.
http://story.scout.com/a.z?s=426&p=2&c=655747

Dr. Joseph Mason, associate professor of finance, was noted in a Bloomberg story published on InsideBayArea.com on July 1, 2007, about the subprime mortgage-backed market. Dr. Mason co-wrote a paper about the market. Dr. Mason is also quoted in a BusinessWeek story published on June 29 and an MSN Money Canada story published on June 27, both about the market. He commented on the market on WBBR-AM (NBC-ABC-New York) on June 29.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_6275730
http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca/investing/stocks/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5056551
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_28/b4042037.htm?campaign_id=rss_null

Drexel was noted in a story published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on June 30, 2007, for receiving a Department of Education grant to recruit, prepare and support nontraditional candidates to become teachers in schools that have a difficult time finding qualified instructors.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/philadelphia/8259017.html

Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, associate professor of chemistry, and Drexel Island on the online virtual world “Second Life” were noted in a story published on ScienceBlogs.com on June 29, 2007.
http://scienceblogs.com/ethicsandscience/2007/06/chem_20.php

Dr. Robert Sataloff, chair of the Department of Otolaryngology at the Drexel University College of Medicine, is quoted in a Bangor Daily News (Maine) story published on June 29, 2007, about irritable larynx syndrome.
http://bangordailynews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=151537&zoneid=500

The Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, N.Y.) published an opinion piece by Jennifer Bourgeois Hamblin, a graduate student and physician’s assistant in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, on June 29, 2007. The piece is on universal health care.
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070629/OPINION02/706290366/1039/OPINION

The annual student fashion show in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design was noted in a story published on June 28, 2007, on the Web site of Bharat Textile.
http://www.bharattextile.com/newsitems/2004561

Dr. Robert Schwartzman, chair of neurology in the Drexel University College of Medicine and a specialist in reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) pain syndrome, commented on WPVI-TV (ABC-6) on June 28, 2007, on a local Marine’s struggle with RSD.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=special_coverage&id=5433743

A CBSNews.com story in which Dr. Richardson Dilworth, assistant professor of history and politics, commented on Philadelphia’s shrinking population continues to be syndicated. The story was published on the Web sites of WBBM-TV (CBS-Chicago), KUTV-TV (Salt Lake City), KDKA-TV (CBS-Pittsburgh), KEYE-TV (Austin, Texas) and other television stations and on CBS Radio Network’s “News on the Hour,” WTOP-AM (CBS-Washington), KYW-AM (1060) and WTIC-AM (CBS-Hartford, Conn.) on June 28, 2007.
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/topstories_story_179131013.html

Dr. Burkhardt Ringe of the Center for Liver, Biliary and Pancreas Disease in the Drexel University College of Medicine is quoted in a Reuters story published on the Web site of Medline Plus on June 28, 2007, about liver donor complications.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_51509.html

The Philadelphia Business Journal published a column on June 15, 2007, by Stephen F. Gambescia, associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions, on how falsifying credentials can damage credibility.
http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2007/06/18/editorial2.html

Drexel alumnae Robin Miller, Rachel Levin and Kristin Dudley and their LympheDIVAs sleeves for women who suffer from post-breast cancer lymphedema, were featured in a story published in the June 2007 issue of Philadelphia Style.

Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University Relations

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