Drexel News
Issue date: 2/25/05 Section: News
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Roundtable discussion held about school violence
School violence solutions and awareness roundtables are to be held by the Drexel Center for Prevention of School Violence March 3. The event will take place in the Korman Center room 241 from 9 a.m. to noon. Included in this event will be student readings, question and answer sessions and four featured speakers. To address youth homicide and violence in Philadelphia a consultant in health and mental health, Paul Fink will speak.
Director of Special Children with Special Needs, Ronalso Randolph, will speak on the school violence in special education. Causes and solutions of violence in schools and neighborhoods will be discussed by Vernard Trent, director of the School District of Philadelphia Office of School Climate and Safety. Mary Jo Grdina, lecturer in Drexel's School of Education will explain classroom conflicts. The program is being coordinated with local elementary and middle schools.
Author Lou Baldwin to read biography of saint
Lou Baldwin will read from his biography titled Saint Katharine Drexel: Apostle to the Oppressed in order to remember the life of the saint March 1. This event, which will be free and open to the public, is part of Drexel's "Magnificent Minds" lecture and art series. The book was published two weeks prior to the saint's canonization in October 2000. Katharine Drexel, the niece of Anthony Drexel led a life of spiritual education and care for the oppressed of her time. For more information on the reading, e-mail jnk25@drexel.edu.
Assistant Professor Badach features photos at gallery
"Vivarium: Repeat, Resemble and Represent - The Photography of Justyna Badach" held its grand opening Feb. 23 in the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, located inside Nesbitt Hall. A free reception was held Feb. 23 to celebrate the opening of the show. The exhibition will be available for the public until March 11 during gallery hours.
The Pearlstein Gallery is open Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment.
An assistant professor of photography in the College of Media Arts and Design, Badach, has had her work shown in many venues including Winter Show of Women's Photography at Soho 20 gallery in New York, Film Stills at White Columns gallery in New York and Photography: Contemporary Prospects in Yellow Springs, Pa. In addition, her work as been published in The Photo Review magazine. For information, call 215-895-2548 or e-mail gallery@drexel.edu.
Playwright Bruce Graham interviewed on DUTV
DUTV's The Drexel InterView interviewed playwright Bruce Graham Feb. 22. The show will be re-broadcast Feb. 26 and 27 at 8 a.m. Bruce Graham is the author of a dozen produced plays including Belmont Avenue Social Club, Coyote On A Fence and Minor Demons. Belmont Avenue Social Club is a comedy first published in 1998 by the Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. Among others, his work has been produced by the George Street Playhouse, the Hudson Guild, the Cincinnati Playhouse and the Northlight Theater.
DUTV can be seen on Comcast channel 48 in Center City and South Philadelphia, channel 99 in North Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill and Germantown, channel 54 in other Philadelphia neighborhoods and channel 62 on Urban Cableworks.
School violence solutions and awareness roundtables are to be held by the Drexel Center for Prevention of School Violence March 3. The event will take place in the Korman Center room 241 from 9 a.m. to noon. Included in this event will be student readings, question and answer sessions and four featured speakers. To address youth homicide and violence in Philadelphia a consultant in health and mental health, Paul Fink will speak.
Director of Special Children with Special Needs, Ronalso Randolph, will speak on the school violence in special education. Causes and solutions of violence in schools and neighborhoods will be discussed by Vernard Trent, director of the School District of Philadelphia Office of School Climate and Safety. Mary Jo Grdina, lecturer in Drexel's School of Education will explain classroom conflicts. The program is being coordinated with local elementary and middle schools.
Author Lou Baldwin to read biography of saint
Lou Baldwin will read from his biography titled Saint Katharine Drexel: Apostle to the Oppressed in order to remember the life of the saint March 1. This event, which will be free and open to the public, is part of Drexel's "Magnificent Minds" lecture and art series. The book was published two weeks prior to the saint's canonization in October 2000. Katharine Drexel, the niece of Anthony Drexel led a life of spiritual education and care for the oppressed of her time. For more information on the reading, e-mail jnk25@drexel.edu.
Assistant Professor Badach features photos at gallery
"Vivarium: Repeat, Resemble and Represent - The Photography of Justyna Badach" held its grand opening Feb. 23 in the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, located inside Nesbitt Hall. A free reception was held Feb. 23 to celebrate the opening of the show. The exhibition will be available for the public until March 11 during gallery hours.
The Pearlstein Gallery is open Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment.
An assistant professor of photography in the College of Media Arts and Design, Badach, has had her work shown in many venues including Winter Show of Women's Photography at Soho 20 gallery in New York, Film Stills at White Columns gallery in New York and Photography: Contemporary Prospects in Yellow Springs, Pa. In addition, her work as been published in The Photo Review magazine. For information, call 215-895-2548 or e-mail gallery@drexel.edu.
Playwright Bruce Graham interviewed on DUTV
DUTV's The Drexel InterView interviewed playwright Bruce Graham Feb. 22. The show will be re-broadcast Feb. 26 and 27 at 8 a.m. Bruce Graham is the author of a dozen produced plays including Belmont Avenue Social Club, Coyote On A Fence and Minor Demons. Belmont Avenue Social Club is a comedy first published in 1998 by the Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. Among others, his work has been produced by the George Street Playhouse, the Hudson Guild, the Cincinnati Playhouse and the Northlight Theater.
DUTV can be seen on Comcast channel 48 in Center City and South Philadelphia, channel 99 in North Philadelphia, Chestnut Hill and Germantown, channel 54 in other Philadelphia neighborhoods and channel 62 on Urban Cableworks.
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