Women’s Health Lecture Series

Posted on June 1, 2009 by OK Go

Drexel University College of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Human Resources will host Eugene Hong, MD, chair of the Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine, who will present “Women in Sports Medicine” on Friday, June 5, 2009, from noon to 1 p.m. at the University Club, sixth floor, MacAlister Hall (33rd and Chestnut Streets).This is a great opportunity to meet DUCoM physicians. Dr. Hong received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. Upon graduation, he completed a general surgery internship at the University of Connecticut, a community-oriented primary care fellowship through the University of Massachusetts, a family medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University and a primary care sports medicine fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University. He is board certified in family medicine with an added qualification in sports medicine.
This event is free and open to Drexel faculty and staff. A light lunch will be served. Reservations are not necessary.For more information on Eugene Wolf, M.D., visit: http://www2.drexelmed.edu/PhysicianSearch/Details.aspx?RecordId=99&dt=55For more information on Obstetrics/Gynecology, visit http://www.drexelmed.edu/FindaPhysician/MedicalPractices/ObstetricsGynecology/tabid/1575/Default.aspxFor more information on the lecture, contact Emily Boland at eab66@drexel.edu.

Final Africana Speaker Series

Posted on June 1, 2009 by OK Go

The Africana Studies Speaker Series will conclude with guest speaker Donald Tibbs, PhD, JD, assistant professor, Earle Mack School of Law, who will discuss “More than Free Speech, Black Power: Race and Radicalism in Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union” on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, at 4 p.m. in Stern Seminar Room, third floor of W.W. Hagerty Library (33rd and Market Streets).
Please inform the person at the desk that you are attending the Speaker Series. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development and Equity and Women’s Studies.
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
For more information on this event, please contact Jacqueline Rios at jsr62@drexel.edu.

Book discussion & signing: Harvest of Blossoms

Posted on May 26, 2009 by brtw2

From the DDD

I recommend going to the whole thing if you want the treats, the event takes place in a reserveable room in the library (302, W.W. Hagerty Library).

“Harvest of Blossoms: The Poetry and Life of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger”

The Judaic Studies Program will present “Harvest of Blossoms: The Poetry and Life of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger” a reading, lecture and book signing by Irene Silverblatt, PhD, professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University, today, May 26, 2009, at 2 p.m. in room 302, W.W. Hagerty Library (33rd and Market Streets).

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger died in an SS labor camp in 1942 at the age of 18. In the course her life cut short, she composed 57 poems in German that miraculously survived. This lecture will explore her life, the multilingual city of Czernowitz and her gripping poetry.

Irene and Helene Silverblatt are the editors of this first translation into English of Meerbaum-Eisinger’s poetry, Harvest of Blossoms: Poems from a Life Cut Short (Northwestern University Press, 2008). They are the daughters of Hilda Schrager Silverblatt, surviving first cousin of Selma. Irene ’s books also include Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World (Duke University Press) and Moon, Sun and Witches (Princeton University Press).

The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Books will be sold by the Pennsylvania Book Center (34th and Sansom Street).

Support for this event comes from the Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation, the Milton and Miriam Handler Foundation, and the Friends of Judaic Studies.

For more information, contact Kathy.carll@drexel.edu or 215-895-6388.

Title 9 talk with refreshments

Posted on May 26, 2009 by brtw2

From the DDD (I’ll hold my tongue)

Discussion about Title IX in Sports with Authors of Playing with the Boys

The College of Arts and Sciences, Women’s Studies Program, Drexel Athletics and Sport Management Program will host a discussion about Title IX with Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano, authors of Playing with the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports, today, May 26, 2009, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Anthony J. Drexel Picture Gallery, third floor of Main Building (32nd and Chestnut Streets).

The event is open to the public. Refreshments will be served. No RSVP is necessary.

For more information, contact Jacqueline Rios at jsr62@drexel.edu or call 215.895.6910.

Possible food/drinks with Economy.com

Posted on May 26, 2009 by brtw2

Looks like Economy.com is going to say something important today from 4-5:30 today in Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone. Now I’m not one to tell people to go after the speaking part for food, but if you were to be “getting out of class at say 5:20” and “walked through Bossone” I wouldn’t blame you if you grabbed snacks.

Again, possible food! Reception is no guarantee.

From the DDD

LeBow College of Business will host a discussion with Mark Zandi, PhD, chief economist and co-founder of Moody’s Economy.com, and Tony Hughes, PhD, senior director of credit analytics at Moody’s, today, May 26, 2009, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Mitchell Auditorium, Edmund D. Bossone Research Enterprise Center (Market Street between 31st and 32nd Streets).

Zandi and Hughes will lecture on the economy, with some discussion and predictions on the commercial real estate market.

Zandi directs the company’s research and consulting activities. He is the author of Financial Shock, an exposé of the subprime financial crisis. He has also analyzed the impact of the stimulus program and presented his findings to Congressional leaders and the current administration.

Hughes manages the company’s credit analysis consulting projects for global lending institutions. An expert applied econometrician, he also oversees the development of Moody’s CreditCycle and manages the data and forecasting products CreditForecast.com and CreditForecast.co.uk. Hughes has held positions at the University of Adelaide, the University of New South Wales and Vanderbilt University, and published a number of articles in leading statistics and economics journals.