I’m not sure I’d want to eat after attending this event…

Posted on May 14, 2009 by brtw2

DDD (I’ve underlined the important parts)

Women’s Health Lecture Series: Contraception

Human Resources will host Sandra Wolf, MD, executive director of the Women’s Care Center, who will present “Staying Cool with Contraception: The Tried and True and Lots That’s New” on Friday, May 15, 2009, from noon to 1 p.m. in room 101, Pearlstein Business Learning Center, (33rd and Market Streets)

Dr. Wolf is a certified Diplomat and Fellow with the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1997 she received the Teaching Award for Promotion of Excellence in Education and in 1998 the Clarence C. Briscoe Award of Pennsylvania Hospital. Dr. Wolf is also a member of the American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology as well as the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

This event is free and open to Drexel faculty and staff. A light lunch will be served. Reservations are not necessary.

Drexel University College of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and HR sponsor the Women’s Health Lecture Series.

For more information on the lecture, contact Emily Boland at eab66@drexel.edu.
For more information about Dr. Wolf, visit http://www2.drexelmed.edu/PhysicianSearch/Details.aspx?RecordId=277&dt=11.
For more information on Obstetrics/Gynecology, visit http://www.drexelmed.edu/FindaPhysician/MedicalPractices/ObstetricsGynecology/tabid/1575/Default.aspx.

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

Refreshments allong with info everyone human should know.

Posted on May 14, 2009 by brtw2

From the DDD. Now I don’t normally recommend “staying” for most things, but I would highly recommend actually going to this thing, not because some people are dumb, but because everyone has a different take on things.

Off-Campus Housing 101 Workshop

The Office of Commuter, Graduate and Transfer Student Programs and Services will host a workshop, “Off-Campus Housing 101,” today, May 14, 2009, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in room 2019, MacAlister Hall (33rd and Chestnut Streets).

Students who will be moving off-campus next year are encouraged to attend. Topics to be covered include conducting a housing search, tenant rights and responsibilities, tips for working with a property manager, and more.

Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, contact offcampushousing@drexel.edu or 215-895-1328.

Refreshments by Department of Biology

Posted on May 14, 2009 by brtw2

From the DDD (she kinda looks like Riddick). Now, I’m not sure how these refreshments will be availible, I’m guessing on the way in you can grab a soda and some cookies then listen to her talk oooorrrrrr you can grab some cookies and soda, sit in the back, realize that the genetic history of chimpanzees isn’t for you, and excuse yourself.

Department of Biology to Present “The Genetic History of Chimpanzees in the Gulf of Guinea Region”

The Department of Biology will present a departmental seminar led by Katy Gonder, PhD (above), from the biology department of State University of New York at Albany, who will present “The Genetic History of Chimpanzees in the Gulf of Guinea Region” today, May 14, 2009, at 3:30 p.m. in room 113, Stratton Hall (32nd and Chestnut Streets).

Gonder’s seminar will focus on work involving biodiversity, which Gonder has been performing in regions of Africa.

The event is free and open to the public. Complimentary refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Gail Hearn, PhD, at gwh26@drexel.edu.

Review: The “Engineering a Better World” conference

Posted on May 13, 2009 by brtw2

Original story link

Review: Ant here, sitting in the event right now, doing some live blogging.
First Speaker – Dr. Adam Fontecchio
11:10am – Looks like an interesting talk, aparently this talk is about technology in engineering.
11:19 – Presented a slide showing how american’s decline in math and science as they age, where international students (k-12) increase in math and science.
11:22 – They’ve developed lesson and unit plans. It involves building things with k’nex.
11:25 – Lol, he put white text on a yellow slice of a pie chart. More importantly, turns out the ratio of m’n’m’s color is not even distributed, it’s based on cost of the pigments, shattering!
11:26 – Grassroots efforts; EPICS (epics.ecn.purdue.edu)
11:32 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPNQGmCMv1E

Second Speaker – Orlando Gutierrez
11:40 – Orlando is an older individual, “the old guy with an accent” as he put it. And awww, he isn’t familiar with ppt, but they let him make one.
11:42 – As a speaker, the man is knowledgeable, however for this is reading from the slides, a no-no in my book.
11:45 – “Everything we have created has been developed by engineers,” said Orlando, not wavering from his stance that the slide rule is the only mathematical tool a man needs.
11:47 – Wow…the number of BS engineering degrees hasn’t changed more than 10,000 since ’91… amazing.
11:48 – Lol, he said “let’s see what happened in sex”. Females in engineering has stayed at like 15% since ’91.
11:54 – How do we increase female participation in engineering? It’s a combo of how they’re brought up (which is horse *$#^ if you ask me). How do we fix this? He cited NCLB as a success… I now disagree with all of his points, NCLB is the worst thing that happened to this country. Old men will be old men I guess.
11:58 – How do we spread engineering as engineering students? Lead by example guys. I (him) am an old man, you guys don’t wanna listen to me, so you have to go talk to them, you have to be the ones to get your message across.
11:59 – Talk still on-going, no food yet.
12:00 – Cited the statistic that 50% of freshmen and sophomores drop out of engineering, 97% of juniors go on to graduate. We all can fix this, help your younger brethren.
12:01 – Talk over. Conclusion: “I think that enigneering is the salvation of the world… we are not going at engineering the way we should, but we can solve this problem.”

FOOD REVIEW!!!!!!
Om Nom Nom

Food location: 1st floor
Mmmmmm turkey sandwich. Nice sodexho food.

There were also free cookies and pretzels out front of MacCalister <3

Refreshments by the Cretan Society of Greater Philadelphia

Posted on May 13, 2009 by brtw2

From the DDD
I’ve marked this 6:30 to 7:30 as you could probably show up around 6:30, hear some one talk for like 20 minutes, then grab some snacks, all the while not looking as suspicious as if you were to just mosey in at 7pm.