Monday, August 8, 2005
Monday, August 8, 2005
Quote
of the Week
"There's only one corner of the universe you can
be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
- Aldous Huxley
Topics of the Week
01.
Free Summer Movie Series: The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy
02.
CEO Workshops for This Week
03.
Rendez-Vous Francais
04.
Kal Rudman on The Drexel InterView
05.
DREAM and Society of Women Engineers to
Host Women in Engineering Panel
06.
Rudman Institute and LeBow College to Host
Media Consolidation Symposium
07.
Drexel Civil Engineering Student Wins National
Dam Safety Scholarship
08.
Drexel Students Receive Tenet Healthcare
Foundation Scholarships
09.
Latest Issue of Dragonfire Now
Online
10. CoMAD
to Launch New Web Site
11. Drexel
News Media Watch
Free Summer Movie Series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy
The Campus Activities Board
(CAB) will offer a free screening of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
on Wednesday, August 10, 2005 at 9 p.m. on the front lawn of Kelly Hall (34th
and Race Streets).
The rain location is Nesbitt Hall's Stein Auditorium (33rd and Market Streets). For more information, contact CAB at cab@drexel.edu or visit http://www.drexel.edu/cab.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova,
Vice President for University Relations
The following workshops will
be sponsored by Creating Excellent Organizations (CEO) this week. All workshops
will meet at 6 p.m. in Creese Student Center, room 226 (32nd and Chestnut Streets).
Motivation: Conquering Apathy and Inspiring Action
Monday, August 8, 2005
Presented by Jessica Grace, coordinator of Commuter and Off-Campus Student Programs and Services.Intercultural Communication
Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Presented by Kate Trayte, director of International Students and Scholars Services.Interpersonal Leadership Skills - Myers Briggs Personality Inventory
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Presented by Tina Brackett-Wood, assistant director/residence director of Kelly Hall.
For additional information about CEO workshops, see http://www.drexel.edu/oca/.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova,
Vice President for University Relations
Rendez-Vous Francais, a gathering
for French students and French speakers, will meet today, August 8, 2005 at
2 p.m. in the Language and Communication Center, room 207 (33rd Street between
Race and Powelton).
For information, contact Simone Schlichting-Artur at schlichs@drexel.edu.
Approved under the authority of Dr. Stephen W. Director, Provost
Kal Rudman on The Drexel InterView
Kal Rudman (above), a music industry publisher, broadcast pioneer
and philanthropist who established the Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute for
Entertainment Industry Studies at Drexel, will be the guest of Paula Marantz
Cohen on DUTV's The Drexel InterView on Tuesday, August 9, 2005, at
8 p.m. The show will be rebroadcast on Wednesday, August 10, at 10 a.m. and
Saturday and Sunday, August 13-14, at 8 a.m.
DUTV can be seen on Comcast channel 48 in Center City and South Philadelphia, channel 99 in North Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill and Germantown, 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
DREAM and Society of Women Engineers
to Host Women in Engineering Panel
The Drexel Research Experience in Advanced Materials (DREAM) program and Society
of Women Engineers will sponsor a Women in Engineering Panel today, August 8,
2005 at 2 p.m. in the mechanical engineering department seminar room in Curtis
Hall room 162 (Chestnut Street between 31st and 32nd Streets).
The discussion will explore issues women face in science and engineering, including careers in academia versus industry, graduate school decisions and what women in engineering have learned so far. Panelists include Dr. Karen Miu (above), associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and graduate and undergraduate students.
The free panel is open to students, faculty and staff. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Holly Burnside at hcb23@drexel.edu.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University
Relations
Rudman Institute and LeBow College
to Host
Media Consolidation Symposium
The Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies and
LeBow College of Business will present the symposium "What Price Media
Consolidation?" on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 from 2-5 p.m. in Mandell
Theater (33rd and Chestnut Streets).
The symposium will examine the consequences of entertainment industry consolidations
on the diversity of entertainment content options available for American consumers;
on media coverage of national and local news; and on employment opportunities
for the artists, craftsmen and women and business people seeking to work in
the film, television, Internet, radio and music industries.
Symposium speakers include Michael J. Copps, Federal Communications Commission commissioner; Chellie Pingree, president and CEO of Common Cause; Andrew Jay Schwartzman, president and CEO of the Media Access Project; Danny Goldberg, CEO of Air America Radio; Alice Myatt, multimedia consultant; and Jeffrey Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy. Jonathan Rintels, president and executive director of the Center for Creative Voices in Media, will moderate the symposium.
Jack Walsh, co-director of the National Alliance for Media Arts & Culture (NAMAC), and Allen Sabinson, Rudman Institute director, will make opening remarks.
"What Price Media Consolidation?" is co-sponsored by the Center for Creative Voices in Media and NAMAC. The symposium is free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration is required by calling 215-895-0352 or emailing rsvp.rudman@drexel.edu.
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Relations
Drexel Civil Engineering Students Wins
National Dam Safety Scholarship
Theresa Andrejack, a student in Drexel's Civil Engineering
BS/MS program, won a $2,500 Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO)
2005-06 Dam Safety Scholarship for Senior Undergraduates. She was one of two
recipients from across the United States to receive an ASDSO scholarship.
Andrejack's undergraduate and graduate studies have focused on geotechnical courses. She is a member of several honorary societies, an officer of Drexel's ASCE student chapter and co-captain of the Concrete Canoe Team.
For her senior design project, Andrejack collaborated on the redesign of the Upper Aetna Dam, one of several New Jersey dams that failed in July 2004. She is currently completing a six-month co-op with the Geotechnical Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Philadelphia.
For more information on the ASDSO, visit http://www.damsafety.org.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University
Relations
Drexel Students Receive Tenet Healthcare Foundation Scholarships
Drexel biomedical science
students Joshua N. Daniel and Sarah N. Daniel
each received one-year $2,000 scholarships from the Tenet Healthcare Foundation's
minority scholarship program. The scholarship program is designed to support
and encourage minority students who are pursuing careers in health care.
The Tenet Healthcare Foundation is the charitable giving arm of Tenet Healthcare Corporation. This year, the Foundation awarded $50,000 in scholarships to 27 deserving students in five Tenet markets: South Florida, Dallas, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Southern California. Since its inception seven years ago, the minority scholarship program has assisted 189 students and awarded more than $318,000 in scholarships.
To be eligible for the minority scholarship program, applicants must be high school seniors, graduates or students enrolled in a full-time undergraduate course of study at several specific schools, majoring in a health care-related discipline and be of an ethnic minority.
For more information on the Tenet Healthcare Foundation, visit http://www.tenethealth.com/tenethealth/TenetFoundation.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University
Relations
Latest Issue of Dragonfire Now Online
The third issue of Dragonfire, a fully interactive multimedia online
magazine published under the direction of editor-in-chief Amy Webb, is now available
online 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 also features an interactive audio tour of Philadelphia's murals.
Dragonfire is published 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.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University
Relations
The College of Media Arts & Design will soon launch its new Web site.
The site is the result of a six-month collaboration between designers, technologists, business analysts and psychologists from Electronic Ink, a leading user interface design firm, and Drexel co-op students Jon Aldinger, a digital media junior; Tony Ballas, a computer science pre-junior; Dan Mall, a digital media junior; and Adam Little, a digital media senior.
The new CoMAD Web site reflects the advanced design capabilities and incorporates practical end user needs and requirements. The Drexel student designers received mentorship from the Electronic Ink team, participating in design and usability reviews of the current and competing sites and conducting user surveys and analyses to ensure that their design would meet user needs.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova, Vice President for University
Relations
The University was noted
in a story in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Aug. 4, 2005 about poorly
performing Philadelphia public schools. Drexel will help conduct a national
search for a University City High School principal.
StoryLink
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
A column about the Philadelphia
Eagles written by Dr. Robert Keidel, visiting associate professor
of management, was published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Aug. 2,
2005.
StoryLink
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
Drexel was noted in a story on the
RedNova.com Web site Aug. 2, 2005 about the Pennsylvania Cancer Alliance Bioinformatics
Consortium. The University is a participant in the consortium.
StoryLink
- RedNova
Renee Chase,
director of the fashion design program in the College of Media Arts & Design,
was quoted in an Aug, 1, 2005 story on the MetroKids.com Web site about different
styles of children’s clothing.
StoryLink
- MetroKids
The University was noted as a co-developer
of Collection Development Manager, which tracks article usage, in a story on
InformationWorldReview.com on Aug. 1, 2005.
StoryLink
- InformationWorldReview
Dr. William Meyers,
Drexel University College of Medicine chairman of the Department of Surgery,
was noted in a story in The Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times,
Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.), The Miami Herald, Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, The Sacramento Bee and several other publications
Aug. 1, 2005 about sports hernias.
StoryLink
- The Chicago Tribune
Drexel was noted in a story
on the CampusTechnology.com site Aug. 1, 2005 about rich media. The story notes
that the University launched a rich-media drop box to automate the process of
digitizing content to be used with interactive technologies. John Morris,
Office of Information Resources and Technology, was quoted in the story.
StoryLink
- CampusTechnology
A demonstration of a computer game developed by six high school students who participated in the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for Information Technology, held at Drexel the past five weeks, was featured on WPVI-TV (ABC 6) on July 29, 2005.
Dr. Arthur Shostak,
professor emeritus of culture and communication, was quoted in a Philadelphia
Inquirer story July 28, 2005 about a labor resolution calling for the Bush
administration to pull troops from Iraq.
StoryLink
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
Dragonfire was featured
in a story on The Write News Web site on July 15, 2005. Amy Webb,
editor of Dragonfire, and Dr. Mark Greenberg, dean of Pennoni
Honors College, were noted in the story.
StoryLink
- WriteNews
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