Drexel University Events Calendar

Online Continuing Education Course: Stormwater Planning in the Era of Climate Change (6/24/2020 - 9/2/2020)

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	6/24/2020	Start Time:	4:00 PM
End Date:	9/2/2020	End Time:	7:00 PM

We are delighted to offer this new, online, continuing education class "Stormwater Planning in the Era of Climate Change"to be offered at Drexel University during the Summer of 2020. A maximum of 20 professional development hours (PDHs) can be obtained for the $600 registration fee.

While learning the latest science on precipitation forecasting under climate change, students enrolled in the class will work directly with a set of cities and water utilities (or your own existing clients) to develop future design storms based on the latest climate projections.

Please email fam26@drexel.edu for a detailed syllabus.

Registration closes on June 19th at 5 pm and space is limited. To apply please fill out the survey form here: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7Vu1It31EPB3zRH

Individuals accepted into the program will be sent a separate email with payment details.

Goldman Sachs (7/20/2020 - 9/30/2020)

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 04:00:01 GMT

Start Date:	7/20/2020	Start Time:	12:00 AM
End Date:	9/30/2020	End Time:	12:00 AM

Monday, July 20th 2020 to Wednesday, September 30th 2020

12:00 am - 12:00 am

Virtual Event

https://recruiting360.avature.net/candidates?projectId=14305&source=Candidate+Portal

Hosted by Goldman Sachs

Virtual Session

Goldman Sachs is committed to supporting students who identify as Hispanic/Latinx This year, through our Virtual Hispanic/Latinx Possibilities Summit, we are excited to offer new and innovative content designed to provide students with tangible, resume-enhancing skills, networking opportunities with members of our Firmwide Hispanic/Latinx network, and interactive workshops and coaching designed to navigate the Goldman Sachs interview process. Accepted students will have the opportunity to participate in a first-round interview for either a 2021 summer or full-time analyst position for the division(s) they are selected for. Virtual Hispanic/Latinx Possibilities Summit: Dates: July - September 2020 Eligibility Requirements: Undergraduate students who identify as Hispanic/Latinx graduating between December 2020 and May 2022. Application Deadline: July 12th at 11:59 PM ET After registering for this event, please complete the following steps to ensure that your application is reviewed: 1. As soon as you register, you will be asked to complete an inbox task. We encourage you to complete this questionnaire immediately. 2. Following review, finalists will be notified and asked to submit a formal application for either a 2021 Summer or New (Full-Time) Analyst role within the division(s) they are selected for. If you do not submit your inbox task your application will be marked incomplete, and you will not be considered to attend the event. Got a question? Feel free to reach out to us at diversityrecruiting@gs.com.

Walk at Work Wellness Challenge (25 Wellness Points)* (8/10/2020 - 8/31/2020)

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 04:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/10/2020	All Day
End Date:	8/31/2020

During this four-week wellness challenge, you’ll aim to walk 10,000 steps a day, with an emphasis on fitting in more walking at work. This challenge will help you increase your physical activity, reduce your time spent sitting, relieve stress, and improve your overall health!

This challenge will run from August 24th to September 20th. You can register beginning August 10th. The very last day to sign-up is August 31st.

To register, login to the Health Advocate Wellness Incentive Portal: www.healthadvocate.com/drexel
• Click on “Walk at Work” from your To Do List
• Click “Join”

If you participate weekly, you will receive 25 wellness incentive points ($25!). You must register for the 2020 program AND complete your 2020 Personal Health Profile before you will be eligible to receive any payouts.

If you have questions, please contact Monica Fauble, Wellness Administrator, at: mfauble@drexel.edu

Vision2020Votes (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 04:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020
End Date:	8/26/2020

Let’s break the record for women voting in the 2020 election! That’s the goal of Vision2020Votes, a nonpartisan, national, online voter mobilization effort. A record vote by women is the best way to increase the power of women’s voices in decisions that affect society — and to honor the suffragists who won the fight for women’s right to vote 100 years ago.

A PSA highlighting the Vision2020Votes intiative can be viewed from the women100.org website.

Learn more about Vision2020Votes

Ten at 10: Water-Cooler Wednesdays (1 Wellness Incentive Point Per Day)* (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	10:00 AM
End Date:	8/26/2020	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.

Wednesdays are "Water-Cooler Wednesdays." 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 "Water-Cooler Wednesdays" 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)!

Beachell Family Learning Center Career Workshops (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	1:00 PM

Free EMT Program - Information session with West Philadelphia Skills Initiative - August 26th at 12:00 p.m.
Register in advance for this meeting: https://drexel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvdO-hrTItGNAnPedQ1VpvwDCFv18uvEA1

Free Webinar: Boost Brand/Reputation Management Strategy (Cancelled) (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	1:00 PM

Join Drexel University for free and engaging webinar on “Brand and Reputation Management Strategy” on August 26, 2020 at Noon (EST).

RSVP: online.drexel.edu/gpcc-webinar

How can your organization be more proactive in managing its own brand and reputation?

2019 proved to be an amazing year for corporate reputation management stories driven by data breeches, product/services issues and uncovered scandals. This year, COVID-19 and social activism has pushed organizations to take another hard look at their brands and their reputation, realigning it, in some cases, to meet shifting consumer and social priorities. It raises a question, why is brand and reputation management so reactive?

This webinar will be led by Professor Min Lee, Drexel University, Director of Undergraduate Programs in Communication, and Graduate Faculty Member in Communication, Culture and Media.

Learn more about Drexel's new online Certificate in Public Relations. Whether you’re new to public relations, or want to expand your knowledge of the field, this certificate will help build a strong foundation in writing, planning, and strategic social media communication.

2020-08-26--GPCC-Brand-Reputation-Webinar.pdf

Toast to Tenacity (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	1:00 PM

Celebrate 100 years of women’s voting rights!

August 26, the day the 19th Amendment became law in 1920, is recognized nationwide as Women’s Equality Day. To celebrate the centennial, Vision 2020 will host a limited-seating program of presentations and tributes in the shadow of Independence Hall. This live-streaming and prerecorded webcast will include well-known speakers and musical performances. A 1 p.m. ET toast to the suffragists will include similar toasts in other cities.

The Toast to Tenacity webcast can be viewed from the women100.org website on August 26.

Learn more about the event

Yoga for Anxiety (15 Wellness Points)* (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	12:00 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	12:45 PM

This gentle yoga and breathing class will be a hands-on movement class. Our Wellness Administrator Monica Fauble, Licensed Acupuncturist & Yoga Teacher, will lead you through a series of stretches and breathing practices that can be done at home or in your office.

You will also experience guided breathwork, meditation, and grounding exercises that you can use to destress and reset throughout the day.

You don’t necessarily need to change into “workout” clothes to attend, but you will not be able to fully participate if you are wearing tight or restrictive clothing or clothes that you’re afraid will rip or tear if you stretch and move. Please use your judgment about what to wear.

All bodies and all “fitness” levels are welcome to attend this class. We will offer more do-able and more difficult variations of each posture to help you turn up the heat or take it down a notch according to what you need.

Please register in Career Pathway. The Zoom link will be sent via email from Career Pathway once you register.

*Participants in our Wellness Incentive Program are eligible to earn 15 points (a $15 credit) for attending this event. Your name must appear in the participants box in Zoom (you must be signed in to Zoom with your name) 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 Consultant Monica Fauble with questions: mfauble@drexel.edu

COVID-19 in Latin America (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	2:00 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	3:00 PM

Join the COVID-19 Journal Club for a discussion on the paper “Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Policy on Homicide, Suicide, and Motor Vehicle Deaths in Peru”, by Renzo JC Calderon-Anyosa, MD, and Jay S. Kaufman from the department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University.

Kevin Martinez-Folgar, MD, researcher and medical data analyst at the Centro Integral del INCAP para la Prevención de las Enfermedades Crónicas and SALURBAL, will discuss the paper which was uploaded to the MedRxIv preprint server on July 14, 2020. The paper uses the Peruvian National Death Information System to conduct an interrupted time series analysis to assess the impact of lockdown measures on external causes of death. We will also briefly discuss a recently-published MMWR paper by Mark É. Czeisler and colleagues from CDC that describes mental health, substance use, and suicidal ideation during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Drexel staff, faculty and students are welcome to take part in this discussion.

> Zoom link

If you have a paper or topic you’d like us to discuss or are interested in presenting, please reach out to Michael LeVasseur, PhD, MPH, visiting assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Dornsife, mtl55@drexel.edu.

To signup for the COVID-19 Journal Club mailing list, please follow the instructions below:

Send an email with a blank subject line to listserv@lists.drexel.edu
In the body of the email write: subscribe COVID-19-JC

Calderon-Anyosa_Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Policy on Homicide Suicide and Motor Vehicle Deaths in Peru.pdf
Czeisler_Mental Health, Substance Use, and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic.pdf

Shakespeare Read-Aloud (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	2:00 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	3:00 PM

The Pennoni Honors College would like to invite you to another Shakespeare Read-Aloud for all interested students, staff, faculty, parents, and friends of the Pennoni Honors College. We will be reading and dissecting Antony & Cleopatra.

Years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, one of three rules of Rome, falls in love with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. When the empire is threatened, Antony is summoned back to Rome, where chaos, war, and grief ensues.

Our aim is to have attendees engage with this great play in whatever capacity they choose. You can come to read or just to listen. There will be no pressure, no judgment, no grades — just the chance to commune together over a great work of literature and provide a little laughter in our present moment.

The reading will resume each Wednesday, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. live on Zoom. The reading will be led by Pennoni Honors College Dean Paula Marantz Cohen, author of the forthcoming Learning Empathy from Shakespeare (Yale UP).

Wednesdays
2-3 p.m.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://drexel.zoom.us/j/94627005172

RSVP for 8/26: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5it5h0QJTVukCwZ

RSVP for 9/2: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2rcc0BSWsE9aHt3

RSVP for 9/9: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_00AZLHQ7i3fQ3kx

RSVP for 9/16: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6xnKUvX0BWJLUUJ

RSVP for 9/23: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_da3HpYgr7MmVmQJ

RSVP for 9/30: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b8dXCEbJuFaBpdj

RSVP for 10/7: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_esbxXjgoaADMpeZ

RSVP for 10/14: https://drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b3hyuB5FmHdLhnD

Campus Philly (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 19:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	3:00 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	4:00 PM

Wednesday, August 26th 2020

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Virtual Event

https://campusphilly.secure.force.com/events/targetx_eventsb__events#/esr?eid=a0P1J00000gjEqVUAU

Hosted by Campus Philly

Organized by Marissa Christie

Virtual Session

*ON ZOOM!* On August 26 at 3 p.m., join us for the season two finale of Campus Philly Conversations as we talk with innovative video producer Marvin Mack, who turned his creative passion into a career, and now shares how others are doing the same in his podcast Good Ass Job. Marvin has more than 10 years experience in digital media and branded content creation, working for companies including Buzzfeed, Thrillist, Group 9, and The Fader.

CASTLE Pedagogical Happy Hour (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 19:30:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	3:30 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	5:00 PM

The next CASTLE Pedagogical Happy Hour features Galen Long, Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science.

“Why Are You Here? Increasing Intrinsic Motivation to Reduce Cheating”

The shift to online learning has spurred many instructors to focus on making cheating difficult. While redesigning Web and Mobile Application Development this summer, I instead focused on appealing to students' intrinsic motivation to learn, in an attempt to make cheating undesirable. This talk will describe what methods I tried, what worked and what didn't, and the role of grades and an academic education for a student population whose main interest is entering industry to escape student loan debt.

The CASTLE Pedagogical Happy Hour is a program hosted by the Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence (CASTLE) and sponsored by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The program features a current faculty member who will present a brief overview of an effective teaching strategy utilized in their classroom or laboratory. The presentations are then followed by audience Q&A and discussion.

Broader Impacts and Peer Review for the NSF GRFP (NSF GRFP Workshop 4 of 4) (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	5:00 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	7:00 PM

The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides selected fellows with three years of funding, including a living stipend and tuition funds, to support the research phase of their doctoral degree. The current application cyle is open to US citizens planning to begin a research-focused graduate program in Fall 2021, or who will be in the 1st or 2nd year of a PhD in STEM or the Social Sciences in Fall 2020.

This final workshop of our series on preparing a GRFP application will break down how to clearly communicate the broader impacts of your work, one of the most important selection criteria for GRFP. The second half of the workshop will provide peer review on attendees’ current draft applications. You do not need to have attended previous GRFP workshops to benefit from this one.

Venture For America (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	5:00 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	6:00 PM

Wednesday, August 26th 2020

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Virtual Event

https://zoom.us/j/91299108071

Hosted by Venture For America

Organized by Joel Vazquez

Virtual Session

Any Handshake student with a link to this event can view and RSVP

Venture For America believes entrepreneurial talent is equally distributed across all identities, but we know access to resources is not. Leveraging their identities and experiences, our Fellows are creating and growing businesses. Regardless of how you identify, if you're interested in becoming a startup leader or starting your own business, Venture For America is here to help you.

Primerica (8/26/2020)

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:30:00 GMT

Start Date:	8/26/2020	Start Time:	6:30 PM
End Date:	8/26/2020	End Time:	8:00 PM

Wednesday, August 26th 2020

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Virtual Event

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85651250103?pwd=T2w0aFdDY1hWdDJDMVJ5RTErbXB1UT09

Hosted by Primerica

Organized by Paul Toub

Virtual Session

Did You Ever Say There’s Got to Be a Better Way? A Career with Primerica Could Be For You! The largest independent financial services marketing organization in North America We are a Fortune 1000 company positioned to dominate the distribution of financial services and products to the greatly underserved middle America market. As an independent company, Primerica is now a valuable distribution channel for the industry. For 43 years, we’ve had a simple philosophy, just do what’s right. While other financial companies focus on the wealthy, we protect our most important assets…the ones who teach our kids, make our goods, grow our food, and protect our nation. We are privileged to have earned the trust of millions of families because of our commitment to doing what’s right for the families we serve. Primerica is going through a period of unprecedented growth and looking for people who have an entrepreneurial mindset to help us open agencies throughout North America. Learn about exciting career opportunities at our Primerica Career Overview Wednesday August 26, 2020 6:30PM to 8PM For your Zoom Reservation please email ptoub@primerica.com For admission from the waiting room be sure to include your name, email, phone number, school, year or graduation date and major areas of study.