Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Quote of the Day
"Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former."
- Horace Mann

Hot Topic
01. Dr. Paul Farmer to Deliver Health and Human Rights Lecture Today

Topics of the Day
02. No Seat at the Table: A Discussion of Women and Corporate Boards
03. DUTV To Premiere Bruiser Flint Show
04. 11th Annual Holiday Toy and Book Drives Under Way
05. Auditions Set for Award-winning Play Prom
06. Drexel Men's Basketball Team in Philly Classic at Palestra
07. Study Abroad in Australia Now Open to Non-co-op Students
08. Chemistry Department to Present Lecture on Biodetection Applications
09. Drexel News Media Watch
10. Drexel Daily Digest Takes a Holiday

 
Dr. Paul Farmer to Deliver Health and Human Rights Lecture Today

(Please note change of venue.)

Partners in Health founder Dr. Paul Farmer will be the guest speaker at the School of Public Health's first annual Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Memorial Lecture* today, November 20, 2007, at 4:30 p.m. Farmer will speak about "Global Health Equity and the Role of the Research University." Dean Marla Gold reports that due to the overwhelming response to this event, the venue has been changed to the Main Building Auditorium (32nd and Chestnut Streets). The lecture is free and open to the public.

A reception will follow the lecture in the Great Court of the Main Building. Complimentary parking is available in Drexel's Lot F (31st and Ludlow Streets).

The lecture will also be Webcast live in Auditorium B at the Queen Lane Medical Campus (2900 Queen Lane).

Partners in Health is an international non-profit organization that provides direct health care, research and advocacy for those who are sick and living in poverty. In 2003, Dr. Farmer's work was profiled in Tracy Kidder's book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World. To RSVP, or for more information, contact Anne Jensen at 215-762-8868 or arj37@drexel.edu.

* Dr. Jonathan Mann's vision, passion and leadership forever instilled the values of public health as a human right at the School of Public Health. Each speaker in the annual series will reflect his principles and everlasting spirit at the school. The annual lecture series is made possible thanks to the generous support of Dr. D. Walter Cohen, chancellor emeritus of Drexel University College of Medicine.

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

 
No Seat at the Table: A Discussion of Women and Corporate Boards

The Drexel University College of Law Program in Business & Entrepreneurship and The Center for Corporate Governance in the Bennett S. LeBow College of Business present a conference, No Seat at the Table: A Discussion of Women and Corporate Boards, on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 2 p.m. in the Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center (Market Street between 31st and 32nd Streets).

Speaker: Douglas M. Branson, professor and W.O. Edward Sell Chair in Business Law in the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and author of No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom (NYU Press).

Panelists: Elva L. Bankins, president of The Forum of Executive Women and senior vice president and CEO of Resources Inc.; Joan MacLeod Heminway, professor of law in the University of Tennessee College of Law; Vicki W. Kramer, principal V. Kramer & Associates; Ellen C. Wolf, senior vice president and chief financial officer of American Water and member of the board of C & D Technologies Inc.

Moderator: Karl S. Okamoto, associate professor in the Drexel University College of Law and member of the board of Champps Entertainment, Inc.

In his recent book, No Seat at the Table: How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom (NYU Press), Professor Branson lays out evidence that women continue to be underrepresented on the boards of directors of America's public companies. The goal of this Conference is to review the evidence, examine the potential causes and evaluate the reasons for eliminating the paucity of women on corporate boards. To register, click here http://www.drexel.edu/law/registration112907/default.asp.

The Conference is sponsored by Pepper WIN!, a program to recruit, retain, train, promote, support and develop women attorneys at Pepper Hamilton LLP. To learn more about the program and speakers, click here: http://www.drexel.edu/law/conference-11-29-07.asp.

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

 
DUTV To Premiere Bruiser Flint Show

DUTV, the student-run television station of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and the Kal and Lucille Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies, announces the premiere of The Bruiser Flint Show on Saturday, November 24, 200,7 at 9:30 a.m. with repeat showings at 3:30 and 9:30 p.m. later that day.

The Bruiser Flint Show will also be broadcast on Sunday, November 25, at the same times. New episodes of the show will run bi-weekly.

The program will feature a question-and-answer segment with Bruiser Flint, head coach of the Drexel men's basketball team. It will be hosted by Brett Fischer, sports editor of The Triangle, Drexel's student newspaper, and Dan Baker, play-by-play voice of Drexel men's basketball.

Bruiser Flint has led the Drexel Dragons to a berth in postseason action four of the past five seasons and guided the Dragons to a 23-9 record in the 2006-07 basketball season.

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

 
11th Annual Holiday Toy and Book Drives Under Way

Toy Drive

Beginning now through Monday, December 17, 2007, students, faculty and staff are encouraged to donate new toys (no weapons please), preferably wrapped and tagged for age and gender, to benefit children in need, primarily in West and North Philadelphia.

Faculty and staff are encouraged to bring toys for the drive to the University's Annual Holiday Party, to be held in the Great Court of the Main Building (32nd and Chestnut Streets) on Sunday, December 16 from 2 to 5 p.m. Members of the University community can also participate in toy-wrapping parties to be held in the Great Court from Monday, December 10, through Friday, December 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Collection boxes are available on the University City and Center City campuses at the following locations:

For more information on the Holiday Toy Drive, contact the Office of Government and Community Relations at 215-895-2109.

Book Drive

The Drexel University College of Medicine is coordinating a holiday book collection for children in the greater East Falls community. New books should be dropped off by December 7, 2007 at the Office of Community Experience on the Queen Lane Medical Campus (2900 Queen Lane) or the Office of Student Life at the Center City Hahnemann Campus (1505 Race Street). For more information on the Book Drive, please contact Elissa Goldberg at (215) 991-8579.

Approved under the authority of Brian Keech, Vice President for Government and Community Relations

 
Auditions Set for Award-winning Play Prom

Auditions for the Philadelphia premiere of the award-winning play Prom will be held on Sunday, November 25, 2007, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. and Monday, November 26, 2007, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the auditorium of the Main Building (32nd and Chestnut Streets).

Staged by New Paradise Laboratories (NPL) as a sporting event with students vs. chaperones, Prom is a bittersweet, wickedly funny and thoughtful barrage of questions and open-ended answers set to a wall of music and outrageous imagery. Students will be cast to perform alongside professional actors through the Mandell Professionals in Residence Project (MPiRP) of the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.

There is nothing to prepare; the actors will create the characters through improvisation, using NPL's unique form of physical theater. Actors are encouraged to dress comfortably for ease of movement.

Rehearsals will begin over spring break for performances in May. For more information, contact Nick Anselmo at nick.anselmo@drexel.edu. MPiRP is supported in part by a grant from The Samuel P. Mandell Foundation.

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

 
Drexel Men's Basketball Team in Philly Classic at Palestra

The Drexel men's basketball team will face off against Robert Morris University at The Palestra on Friday, November 23, 2007, at 2 p.m. in the inaugural Philly Classic Basketball Tournament.

For more information visit http://www.drexeldragons.com.

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

 
Study Abroad in Australia Now Open to Non-co-op Students

The Drexel Study Abroad office announces that the Drexel exchange program with Swinburne University is now open to four-year non-co-op students as well as sophomores majoring in Film & Video. Students spend from July to November in Melbourne taking courses at Drexel's partner university. The application deadline is Friday, February 1, 2007.

For more information about this and other study abroad options, visit www.drexel.edu/studyabroad.

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

 
Chemistry Department to Present Lecture on Biodetection Applications

The Department of Chemistry presents Dr. Mary Reppy, Analytical Biological Services faculty candidate, in a seminar on Wednesday, November 28, 2007, at 11 a.m. in Room 109, Disque Hall (32nd and Chestnut Streets).

Dr. Reppy will speak on "Polydiacetylene Self-assembled Materials for Fluorescent Detection of Bioanalytes." Dr. Reppy's research group has pioneered the use of polydiacetylene (PDA) emission enhanced by resonance energy transfer for biodetection.

For more information, call Dr. Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner at 215-895-2268 or 215-895-2638.

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

 
Drexel News Media Watch

Dr. Youngmoo E. Kim, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is featured in a story in the November 19, 2007, edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer about the development of software to help consumers sift through downloadable music options on the Internet.
StoryLink - Philadelphia Inquirer

An Associated Press story about Drexel engineering students' plans to set up a water supply in Guatemala over the holiday break was syndicated in The Philadelphia Inquirer on November 18, 2007.
StoryLink - PennLive.com

A story regarding the arrest of a second teenager in the recent robberies near the Drexel campus was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on November 19, 2007.

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

 
Drexel Daily Digest Takes a Holiday

Those of us who work on the Drexel Daily Digest would like to wish a happy Thanksgiving to the entire Drexel Community.

The next edition of the Drexel Daily Digest will be published on Monday, November 26, 2007.

Sincerely,

Alese Dickson, Craig Eisenberger, Niki Gianakaris, Ilene Goldman, Beth Hazany, Marsha Hurst, Matt Kaminsky, Mary Madeira, Ruth Matson and Brian Rossiter

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

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