Friday, October 10, 2003
Friday, October 10, 2003
Quote
of the Day
"Education is the mother of leadership."
-
Wendell Wilkie
Topics of the Day
1. Tissue
Engineering Seminar
2. Celebrate
Health Fair
3. Drexel
News Media Watch
The School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems will hold a faculty group seminar on Tissue Engineering today, Friday, October 10, 2003, at 4 p.m. in Matheson Hall, room 109 (on the University City Main Campus).
The panel will provide an overview of the progress in tissue engineering research at Drexel and its partner institutions. Dr. Peter I. Lelkes, Calhoun Chair Professor of Cellular Tissue Engineering in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, will moderate the seminar.
For more information, call 215-895-2215.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova,
Vice President for University Relations
Students, faculty and staff are invited to the fifth annual Celebrate Health Fair on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 (rain date October 15), from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Rittenhouse Square (18th and Walnut streets).
The fair will feature blood pressure screenings and more than three dozen booths offering information on addiction and behavior counseling, smoking cessation, obesity and nutrition, sexual health, SARS, dance movement therapy and many more. It will also include live music, free health food and health assessments, fitness demonstrations and a raffle.
The fair is sponsored by Drexel, Tenet HealthSystem and the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health, and organized by the Office of Government and Community Relations, led by Senior Vice President Joseph Cascerceri.
For more information, call 215-762-8319 or email livingston@drexel.edu.
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova,
Vice President for University Relations
The October 9, 2003, issue
of the New England Journal of Medicine reported on a new technique
to detect Down syndrome in fetuses earlier and more accurately than standard
U.S. screening tests. Dr. Ronald Wapner, chairman of obstetrics
and gynecology at the College of Medicine, was the lead researcher of the study,
which was reported by at least 48 news media outlets in the United States, Canada
and Europe, including USA Today, CNN and Reuters.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/conditions/10/08/down.syndrome.ap/
Dr. Bert Rosenbloom,
Rauth Chair Professor in Electronic Commerce Management, was quoted on the National
"Do-not-call" list in the October 8, 2003, edition of The Washington
Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A382-2003Oct8.html
The Hellenic News of
America reported on October 7, 2003, that President Constantine
Papadakis will be honored at the scholarship tribute gala dinner of
The Hellenic Medical Society of New York on Saturday, December 6, 2003.
http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=926&lang=US
Washington Technology, the nation's only newspaper for government information technology personnel and at least 33 other news media outlets, reported on October 9, 2003, that Drexel alumnus Kenneth Dahlberg (CoE '67) has been appointed chief executive officer of San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp., the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States. http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/21845-1.html
Approved under the authority of Philip Terranova,
Vice President for University Relations
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