Random House executive editor and best-selling author Jon Meacham will present the 2016 Carfagno Lecture Series on “Ethical Leadership in Faith, Politics and Business" October 18 at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ), in cooperation with the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations (CCJR), will hold its annual conference, “The Dynamics of Religious Pluralism in a Changing World: The Philadelphia, United States, and International Contexts,” at Saint Joseph’s University, from July 10-13.
How would a strong third-party candidate affect the math of the American election system? And would an alternate form of voting yield a president that more citizens are happy with?
Free food: It’s a growing workplace trend, especially in tech companies, to incentivize productivity and morale around the office. But how can companies promote healthy choices and still provide indulgent goodies? Google executives asked consumer behavior expert and Saint Joseph’s University professor Ernest Baskin, Ph.D. and his colleagues, to help them resolve that question by examining the role of relative proximity in behavior.
Research and Development:for many companies, it’s the creative core, the birthplace of innovation, but for organizations who know how to ride the wave, it may also be the budget to cut, according to Saint Joseph's University associate professor Tim Swift, Ph.D. Swift has studied both how reducing R&D budgets can lead to greater innovation, and what it takes for a company to transition between exploratory and exploitative phases of R&D.
Even though autism diagnoses were first introduced over 75 years ago, many people still associate the condition with young children. But autism is aging. Experts estimate that approximately 50,000 individuals with autism enter adulthood each year. And with their entrance to adulthood, they lose access to many services they’ve come to rely on for support.
Virginia Miori, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Saint Joseph's University and an expert in predictive analysis shares advice and warnings about public opinion polling.
Food-related hashtags on social media have millions of posts: but what happens after we snap a food selfie? Intrigued by this new social norm and its impact, Sean Coary, Ph.D., assistant professor of food marketing at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, teamed up with Morgan Poor, Ph.D., assistant professor of marketing at the University of San Diego, to research the impact of consumer-generated images of food on satisfaction.
As the holidays approach, Saint Joseph’s University pediatric sleep expert Jodi A. Mindell, Ph.D., recommends that no matter what date the calendar indicates, parents need to keep their children’s bedtime hour consistent.
Saint Joseph's developmental psychologist Clare Conry-Murray, Ph.D., published research revealing that children are influenced by gender norms in potentially harmful ways: They do not recognize unequal opportunities available to boys and girls.
Saint Joseph’s University’s Academy of Food Marketing will host Chef Robert Irvine, star of Restaurant:Impossible, at an event to benefit the Food Marketing Educational Foundation and the Office of Veterans Services. Held on Tuesday, November 17 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Fretz Kitchen Showroom located in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, the cost is $125 per person, and $75 for veterans.
Anthony A. “Tony” Nichols Sr. ’67, Chairman Emeritus of Brandywine Realty Trust and a leader in the Philadelphia real estate marketplace for nearly 60 years, will receive the Shield of Loyola from Saint Joseph’s University at its alumni association’s 35th annual Alumni Gala on Saturday, Nov. 14 at the Hyatt at the Bellevue in Center City Philadelphia.
Pope Francis made an unscheduled stop at Saint Joseph’s University today, greeting campus officials, student and religious leaders, and visiting the newly dedicated statue, “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time.” The bronze work by noted Philadelphia artist Joshua Koffman was installed Sept. 25 at the plaza in front of the Chapel of St. Joseph-Michael J. Smith, S.J., Memorial, commemorating the 50th anniversary of 'Nostra Aetate,' the Vatican II document that transformed the relationship between the Catholic and Jewish faiths.
Saint Joseph’s University will inaugurate Mark C. Reed, Ed.D., its 28th president on Friday, Sept. 18, during a ceremony in the Michael J. Hagan ’85 Arena.
SJU with the Philadelphia Jewish community will dedicate “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time,” an original bronze sculpture portraying feminine allegorical figures signifying both the Jewish and Catholic religions on Friday, Sept. 25. Rabbi Skorka, the longtime friend of Pope Francis, with whom he co-authored a book about their interreligious dialogue, will deliver the keynote.
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