Monday, July 18, 2005

Quote of the Week
"Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
- Cicero

Topics of the Week
01. CEO Workshops Build Leadership
02. Ha Jin on The Drexel InterView
03. LeBow College of Business Wins Apex 2005 Grand Award for Annual Report
04. The Second Issue of DragonFire Online July 19
05. Dr. Kenneth Hartman Named Drexel eLearning Academic Director
06. Dr. Eric Zillmer on OLN's Countdown-Survival 25
07. University Technology Commercialization Office Participates in BIO 2005
08. Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Members Volunteer to Improve Park
09. WebCT Vista Workshops Added this Friday
10. Rendez-Vous Francais
11. Drexel News Media Watch

 
CEO Workshops Build Leadership


Creating Excellent Organizations (CEO) will hold the following workshops this week:


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

 
Ha Jin on The Drexel InterView


Novelist Ha Jin will be the guest on DUTV's The Drexel InterView on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 8 p.m. The show will be re-broadcast on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at 10 a.m., and Saturday and Sunday, July 23-24 at 8 a.m.

Jin, who teaches at Boston University, is the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist War Trash. Jin also authored Waiting, winner of the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner award. He recently won his second PEN/Faulkner Award for War Trash.

DUTV can be seen on Comcast Channel 48 in Center City and South Philadelphia; Channel 99 in North Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill and Germantown; and Channel 54 in other Philadelphia neighborhoods; and Channel 62 on Urban Cableworks.

For more information on The Drexel InterView, visit http://www.drexel.edu/univrel/events/drexel_interview.html.


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

 
LeBow College of Business Wins
APEX Grand Award for Annual Report


LeBow College of Business was awarded the APEX 2005 Grand Award in the Non Profit Small Office Category for the College's 2004 annual report, Orchestrating the Lead.

LeBow also received five Awards of Excellence in the areas of Corporate/Organization Capability Materials for its MBA Career Services Brochure; Most Improved Brochures, Manuals and Reports for its Executive MBA Viewbook; Total Publication Program for its publications; Covers for the LEAD MBA Brochure; and Marketing Campaigns for the College's business marketing campaign.

LeBow's 2004 Annual Report was selected for its "exceptional use of visuals, dynamic, bold and interesting spreads with crisp, lively type and imagery 'that keeps the viewers viewing.'"

The APEX Awards for Publication Excellence is an annual competition for writers, editors, publications staff and business and nonprofit communicators. It is sponsored by Communications Concepts, Inc.

For more information on the APEX Awards, visit http://www.apexawards.com/.


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

 
The Second Issue of Dragonfire Online July 19


Dragonfire, a fully interactive multimedia online magazine, will publish under the direction of editor-in-chief Amy Webb its second edition on July 19, 2005. It can be viewed at http://www.dfire.org.

Dragonfire staff members hail from more than 30 countries and have worked (or are still working) at such publications as Newsweek, The Economist, Time, CNN, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and more.

Dragonfire publishes once every two weeks by the Pennoni Honors College. New sections go live on different days of the week with automated fresh content, such as crossword puzzles, mp3 lists and more. Users can visit the site every day to find something new to read, play or download.


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Dr. Kenneth Hartman Named Drexel eLearning Academic Director


Dr. Kenneth Hartman (above) has joined Drexel eLearning as its first academic director. The announcement was made by Arthur Zamkoff, president and CEO of Drexel eLearning.

Dr. Hartman will be responsible for shaping e-Learning initiatives, working with deans and faculty on the development of new online programs, and assisting in the student enrollment effort.

Over the past 25 years, Dr. Hartman has served as an associate professor of instructional technology, academic administrator, consultant of several leading universities and the author of numerous publications related to educational technology. He can be seen on Philadelphia's NBC10 as the station's on-air technology contributor.

For more information, visit http://www.drexel.com/About/team.shtml.


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

 
Dr. Eric Zillmer on OLN's Countdown-Survival 25


Dr. Eric Zillmer (above), director of athletics, discusses the dangers of the "death zone" in high altitude climbing, the hazards of sports in deserts and surfing among sharks in a new outdoor adventure series, Countdown-Survival 25, broadcast throughout the month of July on the Outdoor Life Network.

The series explores the treacherous and barren terrain, tempestuous weather patterns and the lethal animals that make up some of the world's most dangerous places.

Each of the half-hour episodes counts down five of the deadliest places on earth through gripping life-and-death accounts of adventure seekers and extreme sports enthusiasts, who have attempted to conquer these hostile and unwelcoming environments. The next episode will be broadcast on Thursday, July 21, 2005 at 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 11 p.m.

For more information, visit http://www.olntv.com/.


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

 
University Technology Commercialization Office Participates in BIO 2005


Drexel's Technology Commercialization Office participated in BIO 2005, the Biotechnology Industrial Organization's annual international convention, held in Philadelphia June 19-22, 2005.

BIO is the largest international organization seeking to promote the scientific breakthroughs and commercial applications of biotechnology for use in medicine, diagnosing disease and industrial manufacturing. More than 18,000 attendees from 50 states and more than 60 countries participated in this year's convention.

Drexel was a part of the Technology Transfer Offices of Philadelphia exhibit that featured the technologies and partnering opportunities of six Philadelphia universities and research institutes: Drexel, the Joseph Stokes Jr. Research Institute of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Temple University, Thomas Jefferson University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Wistar Institute.

Among those who visited the group's exhibit was (pictured above from left to right) Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, Hon. '96, Janette Hawkins, office manager, and Doug Adams, director of Drexel's Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization Office.

For more information, visit http://www.research.drexel.edu/techcom or http://www.bio.org.


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

 
Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity Members Volunteer to Improve Park


Forty volunteers from Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity spent Saturday, July 9, 2005 in Germantown's Cloverly Park helping the Friends of Cloverly Park install a brick walkway and about 1,000 feet of fencing to set off its gardens and keep away vines.

To create the fencing, the volunteers dug 180 holes with a two-man auger, or hole digger, set metal poles and secured the poles with cement. While some volunteers leveled the poles and ensured they were upright, others hauled buckets of cement for the fence holes and bags of sand for the pathway. Other volunteers laid brick or wrestled with vines and brush.

Funding for the improvements to Cloverly Park, one of two small Philadelphia parks selected for this year's Growing the Neighborhood Initiative, was provided by ACE/INA, NovaCare, the William Penn Foundation and the mayor's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative. Because Friends of Cloverly Park called on volunteer labor for the work, extra grant money is available for materials and more projects can be completed.

Located at Schoolhouse Lane and Wissahickon Avenue, Cloverly Park was once part of the Clark estate and had fallen into ruin by the 1980s. Through community efforts, its play area, specimen trees, gardens and small meadow have been restored.


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

 
WebCT Vista Workshops Added This Friday


In response to high demand, IRT has added two new training sessions for WebCT Vista during July. They will be held Friday, July 22, 2005. The morning session - from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - is already fully subscribed. At press time, space was still available for the afternoon session from 1-5 p.m.

These sessions are for faculty and staff members who have previously used WebCT Campus Edition or who have taken a WebCT Boot Camp. WebCT Vista is the new version of WebCT, which will go live at the University this fall.

To reserve a space, email as soon as possible to webct@drexel.edu. Future WebCT Vista workshops and boot camps are listed at http://www.drexel.edu/irt/services/workshops/index.html.


Approved under the authority of Dr. John A. Bielec, Vice President for Information Resources and Technology

 
Rendez-Vous Francais


A gathering for French students and French speakers will be held at 1:30 p.m. today, July 18, 2005 in room 206 of the Language and Communication Center (33rd Street and Powelton Avenue). Come have a coffee and bonbon with other French speakers.

For more information, contact Simone Schlichting-Artur at schlichs@drexel.edu.


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

 
Drexel News Media Watch

Dr. Brad Jameson, Drexel University College of Medicine, was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer story July 14, 2005 about the biotechnology company Immune Control of West Conshohocken. Drexel, Dr. Jameson and Dr. Bill Stephenson, vice provost for research and dean for graduate policy, were noted in two related stories, on the BioWorld.com and on the PharmaLive.com, BlackEnterprise.com and Yahoo Finance sites.
StoryLink - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Dr. Myrna Shure, professor of psychology, was quoted in the August 2005 issue of Child. Shure comments on how parents can teach their children to empathize with other children. Dr. Shure also commented on ways parents can help their children make friends during the summer in the July 12, 2005 issue of Woman’s Day.

Dr. Wei Sun, associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, was featured in a story in the July 2005 issue of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ magazine, Mechanical Engineering. The story notes the professor’s research on BioCAD aims to introduce proven mechanical engineering technologies to bioengineers.
StoryLink - Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Mun Choi, associate dean of the College of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, commented on NASA’s Discovery launch on KYW-TV (CBS 3) and KYW-AM (1060) broadcasts July 13, 2005.

Dr. Fred Allen, assistant professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems appeared on WURD-AM (900) as a guest July 13, 2005 to discuss opportunities for minorities in biomedical engineering.

Dr. Ken Hartman, Drexel e-Learning, appeared on WCAU-TV (NBC 10) on July 12, 2005 to comment about how children can keep their minds sharp during the summer.

Dr. Shawkat M. Hammoudeh, professor of economics, appeared on WPVI-TV (ABC 6) on July 11, 2005 to comment about gasoline prices.

Dr. Amir Pelleg, Drexel University College of Medicine, was noted in a story in the Philadelphia Business Journal on July 8, 2005 about a male infertility treatment called ATPotent.
StoryLink - Philadelphia Business Journal

The University was noted in a brief on the EcontentMag.com site July 8, 2005 about how Drexel and four other colleges are joining Thomson Scientific to deploy a journal-management resource to provide a snapshot of journal use and the influence each college’s researchers are exerting based on their published papers.
StoryLink - EcontentMag.com

The launch of Dragonfire, the Pennoni Honors College’s interactive online magazine, was featured in a story on TheTyee.ca, the Web site of a British Columbia alternative newspaper, July 7, 2005.
StoryLink - TheTyee.ca

Coverage of New Student Orientation appeared on WCAU-TV (NBC 10) on July 7, 2005.

Carl “Tobey” Oxholm III, Drexel senior vice president and general counsel, was published in the May-June issue of The Pennsylvania Lawyer. Oxholm’s article centers on the Drexel University College of Medicine’s first year of experience with medical malpractice mediation.

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