Drexel University Events Calendar

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (3/6/2021 - 7/10/2021)

Sat, 6 Mar 2021 14:30:00 GMT

Start Date:	3/6/2021	Start Time:	9:30 AM
End Date:	7/10/2021	End Time:	3:30 PM

The Drexel Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training is a comprehensive and rigorous journey that a dedicated student can undertake to expand and hone their continuous improvement skills. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt is designed for professionals with prior Lean Six Sigma experience and whose roles include training individuals and teams, big picture problem-solving, and project leadership.

Facilitated synchronous (live) online teaching is used to demonstrate and practice tools and skills which the student then immediately applies to a real world opportunity. Sessions are fast paced and timed to synchronize with a typical project life cycle. Throughout the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt program, you receive coaching and mentoring, both as part of the classroom group and individually, to maximize your success. Upon completion of the class, project and a final exam the you become a certified Black Belt, able to address larger and more complex challenges.

LEAN SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT DATES AND TIMES

All courses will be delivered synchronous (in real-time) with live instruction from our Black Belt instructors.

Kickoff (project selection discussion): Tuesday, March 2, 12 - 1 p.m.
Saturday, March 6, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 27, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Saturday, April 17, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 27, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Saturday, May 8, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 18, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Tuesday, June 8, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Project Presentation: Saturday, July 10, 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

This course is available for tuition remission for eligible Drexel employees.

Community Read: Ebony & Ivy (4/1/2021 - 6/10/2021)

Thu, 1 Apr 2021 22:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	4/1/2021	Start Time:	6:00 PM
End Date:	6/10/2021	End Time:	7:00 PM

All are welcome to join 'phase two' of the Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences community read and discussion of “Ebony & Ivy," the groundbreaking book by Craig Steven Wilder that exposes the links between slavery, racism and the founding of the American university system. Each week, our class has explored a chapter of the book and listened to commentary from experts in our community and across the country.

The first half of our community read began on January14. The second half kicks off on April 1 and meets weekly each Thursday from 6-7 p.m. via Zoom through June 10.

Registration:
https://drexel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdOGsqzMvGNCxk55EIQARcCFTjG1qEZUN

Details and Deadline:

Thursdays from April 1 through June 10, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. EST via Zoom. Please register for the second half of the class by March 30.

Course Credits:
The Community Read is being offered as a 1-credit special-topics course in politics in the winter and spring, open to all Drexel students. If you are seeking course credit, please register for PSCI T180, for the reading and discussion portion, and/or WRIT 280, for writing about the experience, the readings, etc.

Topics:

Philadelphia’s Black Bottom Neighborhood
Drexel University’s Founding and Mission
Politics and Finances of American Universities
Women, Slavery and the Academy
History of Medical Education
Persistence of Scientific Racism

*Participants in our Wellness Incentive Program are eligible to earn 5 points (a $5 credit) for attending each session. Your name must appear in the participants box in Zoom (you must be signed in) in order to receive wellness credit. You will receive an email from Career Pathway confirming your attendance after attendance has been completed. Wellness points will appear in your Health Advocate profile in six weeks.

You must register for the Health Advocate Wellness Incentive Program AND complete your annual Personal Health Profile before you will be eligible to receive any payouts. Points for attending these events will be sent to Health Advocate on a monthly basis for the prior month’s activities. There will be a 6-week delay in these points and payouts being distributed. For information about our wellness incentive program, please visit: http://drexel.edu/hr/benefits/a-healthier-u/wellness-incentive-program/

Please contact Wellness Administrator Monica Fauble with questions about your wellness points: mfauble@drexel.edu

Community Read poster_v4.pdf

Creative Arts Therapies Graduating Student Colloquium (6/7/2021 - 6/8/2021)

Mon, 7 Jun 2021 13:30:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/7/2021	Start Time:	9:30 AM
End Date:	6/8/2021	End Time:	5:00 PM

Creative Arts Therapies Graduating Student Colloquium

June 7 & 8, 2021 at 930am-500pm ET

Via Live Webcast

Creative Arts Therapies graduating students from the Art Therapy and Counseling, Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling, Music Therapy and Counseling, and PhD in Creative Arts Therapies programs will present their final culminating projects over two days. Presentations are made for this unique format of live streaming over YouTube, interspersed with live Q & A sessions with students and a live student awards ceremony.

Register HERE

Ten at 10: Take-a-Hike Tuesdays (1 Wellness Incentive Point Per Day)* (6/8/2021)

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 14:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/8/2021	Start Time:	10:00 AM
End Date:	6/8/2021	End Time:	10:10 AM

Incorporating just 10 minutes of healthy activity into your day can add up to a significant difference in your health, wellbeing and quality of life. With that in mind, Human Resources’ A Healthier U Program is encouraging you to participate in our daily “Ten at 10” wellness program for faculty and professional staff. During this era of social distancing, it’s more important than ever that we find ways to maintain meaningful connections to our colleagues. This program addresses that need and also encourages life-sustaining activities that will promote physical and emotional wellbeing.

Supervisors and department heads are encouraged to set a recurring Outlook invite from 10-10:10 a.m., Monday through Friday, and invite their colleagues to participate. Include a link to this website, then check back Monday through Friday to complete the scheduled activity of the day. For larger departments, you might consider organizing activities into groups of 3-10.

If 10 a.m. is a not an ideal time for you or your department, please feel free to tweak the time to meet your needs. We encourage you to participate sometime before lunch if possible, to help you set the tone for your day.

Tuesdays are "Take-a-Hike Tuesdays." Visit the Ten at 10 Website to connect with resources that can help you take advantage of a simple but powerful body-mind reset. Please visit our website and click on "Take-a-Hike Tuesdays" to learn more.

You can also earn points toward the Wellness Incentive Program by participating in Ten at 10. To claim your points, log in to the Health Advocate Wellness Incentive Portal at healthadvocate.com/drexel and click "Ten at 10" in the To Do List (upper right hand corner of the screen). Every date that you participate and enter will earn you 1 wellness point ($1)!

Through March 2022: Seat at the Table Exhibition (6/8/2021)

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 14:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/8/2021	Start Time:	10:00 AM
End Date:	6/8/2021	End Time:	6:00 PM

Women 100, a program of Vision 2020, is hosting "Seat at the Table," an exhibition that commemorates the 19th Amendment — establishing women’s right to vote — and asks 100 years later, “Where are we now?” Visitors will experience the current status of gender equality in the U.S. through 3D infographic furniture.

"Seat at the Table" is closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will reopen September 18, 2021. A virtual tour and the multimedia segment of the exhibition are still available. In addition, an educator's guide is available for download for teachers, youth leaders and parents.

When the Kimmel Center reopens, "Seat at the Table" will be presented in the lobby daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., through September 2021.

Learn more about Seat at the Table

Virtual: Pharmacology & Physiology Seminar (6/8/2021)

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 15:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/8/2021	Start Time:	11:00 AM
End Date:	6/8/2021	End Time:	12:00 PM

Topic
Intrinsic and Acquired Drug Resistance in Melanoma: Bench-to-Bedside and Back Again

Presented By
Gabriele Romano, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, Department of Translational Molecular Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas

Learn more about Pharmacology & Physiology Seminars here.

Afro-House Dance for Everyone (15 Wellness Points)* (6/8/2021)

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 16:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/8/2021	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	6/8/2021	End Time:	1:00 PM

Afro-House For Everyone is a fusion class mixed with Traditional West African and House Dance movement vocabulary. This class is a mixed level class designed to increase cardio, strengthen abdominal muscles while moving your body to a funky beat. Sneakers/ tennis shoes must be worn in this class.

The class is a mixed-level class & the class is a fusion of Traditional West African Dance & House Dance. The class is also a cardio class.

Participants will need the following:
- Workout Clothing that they can easily move
- Lappa (fabric to wrap around pelvis)
- Sneakers for outdoors or hardwood service
- Hand Towel
- Water

Antoinette M. Coward-Gilmore is the Founder, CEO and Artistic Director of Danse4Nia, Philadelphia’s premiere arts organization that is the home to professional project-based dance company Phoenix Danse and youth dance company Nia-Next. A native Philadelphian, Coward-Gilmore began her dance training in 1985.

*Participants in our Wellness Incentive Program are eligible to earn 15 points (a $15 credit) for attending this event. You must sign-in to receive credit.

You must register for the Health Advocate Wellness Incentive Program AND complete your annual Personal Health Profile before you will be eligible to receive any payouts. Points for attending these events will be sent to Health Advocate on a monthly basis for the prior month’s activities. There will be a 6-week delay in these points and payouts being distributed. For information about our wellness incentive program, please visit: http://drexel.edu/hr/benefits/a-healthier-u/wellness-incentive-program/

Please contact Wellness Coordinator Monica Fauble with questions: mfauble@drexel.edu

Registration is required in Career Pathway.

Development of a Co-loaded Lonidamine and Paclitaxel Ultrasound Contrast Agent (6/8/2021)

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 17:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/8/2021	Start Time:	1:00 PM
End Date:	6/8/2021	End Time:	3:00 PM

BIOMED Master's Thesis Defense

Title:
Development of a Co-loaded Lonidamine and Paclitaxel Ultrasound Contrast Agent for Treatment of Multi-Drug Resistant Tumors

Speaker:
Raj Patel, MS Candidate
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Drexel University

Advisor:
Margaret A. Wheatley, PhD
John M. Reid Professor
School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
Drexel University

Details:
Multi-drug resistance (MDR) is a condition often found in breast cancer that significantly reduces the efficacy of chemotherapy. Many factors contribute to this, including tumor hypoxia, which further serves to increase the resistance of tumors to radiotherapy. Combination therapy has been shown to be effective at reversing the effects of MDR through the combined effects of various therapeutics targeting different mechanisms of the tumor. One such combination involves the co-delivery of lonidamine (LND) and paclitaxel (PTX), which has shown greater efficiency in treating and reversing MDR tumors than the delivery of single drug alone. Multimodal therapy takes this principle a step further, and employs combinations of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, and phototherapy to treat cancer, and has shown greater survival rates in patients than monomodal therapy alone. Currently, our group has developed a LND loaded D-α-Tocopherol polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (TPGS) and sorbitan monostearate surfactant stabilized microbubble (LND-SE61 MBs) with an oxygen core for the application of sensitizing hypoxic tumors to radiotherapy. This MB also doubles as an ultrasound contrast agent (UCA), allowing for enhanced ultrasound imaging. The aim of this proof-of-principle study was to further leverage the LND-SE61 MB to include PTX within its surfactant shell in an effort to expand its capability to treat MDR tumors using chemotherapy, as well as to make the tumor more sensitive to radiotherapy, through a multimodal approach.

As PTX had not been previously loaded onto the SE61 MB through TPGS micelle solubilization, the first aim of this study was to ensure that this was possible, and that the loading of the drug did not affect its acoustical properties. PTX SE61 MBs were created following a similar protocol to the existing LND SE61 MBs and tested for their drug load and acoustical properties. The PTX SE61 MBs met the required drug load needed for therapeutic benefit (1.7 µg PTX/mL MB), as well as retained the properties of an UCA (enhancement >15 dB, half-life > 1.5min, and diameter < 6 µm). The next step included exploring the dual LND and PTX loading of the SE61 MB. As LND and PTX have very different molecular weights and hydrophilicities, three different methods of LND-PTX dual drug loading were explored in an effort to account for any potential problems that could arise from their differences in chemical structure. Overall, all three methods resulted in MBs with the required drug load for therapeutic benefit for both LND and PTX (1.7 µg PTX/mL MB and 2 µg LND/mL MB). The MBs also maintained their general acoustic properties for an UCA. The next step included creating sterilized PTX and LND-PTX SE61 MBs. There was an overall negligible effect of sterilization found on the drug loaded MB acoustical properties and size populations.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Presents: Virtual Information Session (6/8/2021)

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 20:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/8/2021	Start Time:	4:00 PM
End Date:	6/8/2021	End Time:	5:30 PM

We are hosting a virtual information session on our Revenue Officers positions with the IRS' Small Business and Self-Employed Division. Speak to Revenue Officer’s that are working in these positions and gain a better understanding of the work, the day-to-day, and what brought them to the IRS. We will also have HR Representatives on the sessions to discuss the application process and some of the requirements.

For additional information on our open positions send an email to SBSE.Recruitment@irs.gov with your name and inquiry and we will answer your questions.

Register on Handshake: https://drexel.joinhandshake.com/events/769529

Materials Science and Engineering Celebration (6/8/2021)

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 20:30:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/8/2021	Start Time:	4:30 PM
End Date:	6/8/2021	End Time:	6:00 PM

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering will have a virtual celebration with our graduating students. We will recognize graduates’ achievements and share memories. A Zoom link for the event will be provided to students and their families.”

Graduates were sent information about joining this event on Zoom. If you did not receive this, contact Keiko Nakazawa at kn52@drexel.edu .

Engineering Leadership and Society Celebration (6/8/2021)

Tue, 8 Jun 2021 23:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/8/2021	Start Time:	7:00 PM
End Date:	6/8/2021	End Time:	8:30 PM

Construction Management
Engineering Management
Engineering Technology
Peace Engineering
Systems Engineering

The Department will be gathering to celebrate its graduates via a virtual celebration. The event will include an introduction from our Department Head, graduate and undergraduate student speakers, and a slide show of all graduates as names are read with acknowledgement of student honors and awards.

Graduates were sent information about joining this event on Zoom. If you did not receive this, contact Gerry Willis at gtm23@drexel.edu . Friends and family will be able to watch the event on YouTube Live .