Leading public health researchers and trade experts will convene in Washington to address the spread of antibiotic resistance, the role of food animal production and the consequences of using the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership to weaken existing standards to facilitate trade.
The symposium will present information on the latest research and best practices in care for people age 65 and older.
David Vorick is leaving Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with more than a degree in computer science; he’s also taking with him a fledgling cryptocurrency and cloud storage business, and the entrepreneurial skills he and his co-founder learned at Rensselaer.
As members of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Class of 2014 cross the stage, how will they change the world following Commencement?
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine celebrated as 146 students received their medical degrees and numerous honors May 16 and 17, 2014, including 24 cum laude graduates, 6 magna cum laude graduates and 3 summa cum laude graduates. Twenty-five students were inducted into the honor medical society, Alpha Omega Alpha, and seven were inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, the honor society of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
This spring, 1, 613 students will receive degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, on Saturday, May 24, beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the East Campus Athletic Village (ECAV) stadium. They represent the next generation of leaders, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, patent holders, game designers, architects, and innovators, in fields ranging from engineering to architecture, fine arts to science, game design to information technology, and business to the military.
William H. Gates Sr. and Susan Packard Orr will deliver keynote addresses tomorrow at the 15th anniversary celebration of the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Mr. Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ms. Packard Orr, chair of the board of trustees of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, will discuss the global revitalization of family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide.
New York University School of Medicine will hold its 172nd annual graduation at 6:00PM, Wednesday, May 21st , at Alice Tully Hall located in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Established author Stephen Bergman, MD, who writes under the pen name Samuel Shem, will deliver the keynote address.
More than 3,000 people from around the globe gathered at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business on Sunday, 18 May, for the School's 58th Commencement Exercises.
Leaning more on the wit that helped him earn five Emmy Awards than the customary wisdom given to graduating seniors, comedic television writer Chris Regan suggested in his Ithaca College Commencement address that one of the most important things they could do in their lives is to try to make people laugh.
The Class of 2014 at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business has raised $241,286, a record-breaking fundraising total for MBA students about to graduate.
Nearly 280 graduates of the Nation’s only federal health sciences university, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), will receive their diplomas during the commencement ceremony at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, on Saturday, May 17. The Honorable Jessica L. Wright, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, will deliver this year’s commencement address.
Post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, obesity, cancer, infectious disease, and combat casualty care are among the hundreds of research results being presented during the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’ annual Research Days, May 14-15, 2014. This year’s theme, ‘Celebrating Excellence in Research’ reflects the complementary roles nursing, public health, behavioral science, basic science, and medicine play in health promotion.
Healthy stem cells work to restore or repair the body’s tissues, but cancer stem cells have a more nefarious mission: to spawn malignant tumors. Cancer stem cells were discovered a decade ago, but their origins and identity remain largely unknown.
The National Consumers League just announced that the interprofessional team comprised of students from St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, and Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College won a 2014 national Script Your Future Award. This is the second consecutive year a team of students from these schools has won the award.
“As Charles Dickens said, it was the winter of despair and now it is the spring of hope,” said Yifei Li, China chair for the alternative investment provider Man Group, at the inaugural University of Virginia Darden School of Business Shanghai Investing Summit.
On May 13, 2014, President Bill Clinton will open a town hall co-hosted by the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The event will focus on the public health approach to comprehensive solutions to the prescription drug abuse epidemic.
In an effort to bring together world-renowned thinkers and speakers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus community, a team of Rensselaer students have worked to create a new lecture series. Rensselaer TALKS will make its official debut on Friday, May 9. The theme for the inaugural event is “Understanding Ourselves and the World Around Us.”
On May 13, 2014, President Bill Clinton will open a town hall meeting co-hosted by the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to address prescription drug abuse.
The Stigler Center of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is gathering notable banking minds to discuss “30 Years After the Failure of Continental Illinois Bank: Have We Solved Too Big to Fail?”
Nova Southeastern University to Welcome Aviation Hero Chesley B. (Sully) Sullenberger III as a 2014 Commencement Speaker
Speakers for DePaul University’s 116th commencement ceremonies on May 18, June 14 and June 15 include Jon Favreau, César Pelli, Robert Mariano, Sandra Cisneros, Larry Snyder, Robert Moses and Thomas Durkin.
Marketing practitioners and researchers will converge on the University of Chicago Booth School of Business’ downtown campus Tuesday, May 6, featuring a range of research that uses the data to generate insights on marketing topics.
More than 7,500 students will be honored at ceremonies for 14 colleges at the University of Illinois at Chicago May 7-11. Former Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee among graduation speakers.
Author Alvin Townley kicked off April at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business with a discussion of his new book, Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them and the One Who Never Returned.
The first-ever Global Innovation Network for Entrepreneurship and Technology Workshop will be held May 7-9,2 2014, at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center.
Award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter and best-selling author Gregory Zuckerman will be at the Costa Mesa Hilton on June 23 to discuss his latest book, “The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters,” a national bestseller about the nation’s move toward energy independence and the drama behind it. He will also explore how the energy revolution has transformed the economy, geopolitics, the environment and more. The event is hosted by the Center for Investment and Wealth Management (CIWM) at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business, in collaboration with Women Investing in Security and Education (WISE), and will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian and the fossil remains uncovered there continue to be a source of evolutionary fascination. The disappearance of these fossils en route from China to the American Museum of Natural History in 1941 has added to the mystery. While China’s contribution to our understanding of primate and human evolution has grown immeasurably since that time and is now far greater than Peking Man, the historical and scientific importance of the Zhoudoudian site, fossils and artifacts is extraordinary.
The Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and the Office of the Provost will co-host the Third Annual Symposium on the Social Determinants on Health on April 28, 2014. This year’s topic, Squandered Resources: Incarceration—Its Consequences, Costs and Alternatives, will feature speakers ranging from ex-offenders to community workers to academic policy experts. Conversation will center on tackling recidivism, criminal justice issues, health disparities, and solutions to these problems.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is bringing together some of the best minds in academia, government and faith-based organizations on World Malaria Day, Friday, April 25, 2014, for a day of discussion on leveraging community involvement to combat malaria in Africa. World Malaria Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been celebrated globally each year since 2008.
To provide a comprehensive look at prospects for the coexistence of religion and democracy post-Arab spring, a groundbreaking conference “Religion, Democracy and the Arab Awakening” will be held Friday, April 25 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Edna Adan has been named the inaugural recipient of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health.
On Wednesday, April 16, 2014, in New York City, Stony Brook University honored one of its own, long-time conservationist and lemur expert Dr. Patricia C. Wright at its 15th annual Stars of Stony Brook Gala 2014. On top of being feted by her University, Dr. Wright was also riding the wave of stardom as her work with lemurs is the central storyline of the new IMAX® documentary Island of Lemurs: Madagascar. As a continuing tradition, Stony Brook University also recognized six young scholars at the gala for their academic talent and ambition.
NSU's Weeklong Festivities Will Feature Faculty Talks, Film Festivals, Tree-Planting, More—April 16–22
Commencement Address to the University of Maryland School of Medicine Graduates
Hot topics like Big Data and land-use conflicts and development in San Francisco, Calif. will be among the subjects discussed at the 19th Annual Fisher Center Real Estate Conference, presented by the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
From one of Asia’s most dynamic cities, asset management experts and leaders in the field ― hosted by Darden’s top-ranked faculty ― will identify the next best investments in both the large, core emerging markets and in new pockets of performance. Attendees will leave the summit with actionable investing ideas on new opportunities and trends, based on active discussion with leaders in the field.
Former U.S. Rep. John W. Olver and journalist Gail Collins will receive honorary doctoral degrees at Undergraduate Commencement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on Friday, May 9. About 5,500 students will receive bachelor’s degree at the ceremony in McGuirk Alumni Stadium at 4:30 p.m.
The first woman to direct an animated feature film for Walt Disney Animation Studios, Academy Award®-winner Jennifer Lee, will deliver the University of New Hampshire commencement address Saturday, May 17, 2014.
Alex Smith, quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs, U graduate and generous philanthropist is the U's 2014 commencement speaker. He will receive an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters for his dedication and inspiration – on and off the field of play.
New Orleans native and Pulitzer Prize winner Wynton Marsalis will receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters and deliver the keynote address to graduates at Tulane University’s Commencement 2014, which will be held at 9 a.m., May 17 in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Dr. Deborah L. Birx, a renowned international expert in the field of HIV/AIDS, will be the featured speaker at Union's 220th Commencement, College officials announced today. Approximately 525 students in the Class of 2014 will receive degrees during the ceremony, scheduled for 10 a.m. Sunday, June 15, on Hull Plaza. Birx will receive an honorary doctorate of science degree.
After more than 25 years in scientific research at UNM, Jeff Potter retired to focus on his art. Recently, He shared selected pieces at UNM Cancer Center.
World-renowned chef José Andrés will address graduates of the George Washington University at its 2014 Commencement. The James Beard winner is known for his restaurants, his PBS television series, his food advocacy work and his GW class, “The World on a Plate: How Food Shapes Civilization.”
Tony La Russa, who recently was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and is considered one of the best managers in baseball history, has been selected to give the 2014 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis. The university’s 153rd Commencement ceremony is 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 16, in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.
NYU President John Sexton and Board of Trustees Chairman Martin Lipton today announced the names of those to be honored at the University’s 182nd Commencement Exercises, which will be held Wednesday, May 21st, at Yankee Stadium.
On Earth Day—Tuesday, April 22—the Stony Brook campus community, and the global twitter-verse are invited to meet and tweet – virtually and in person – with Stony Brook University’s three Indianapolis Prize finalists: Russell A. Mittermeier; Carl Safina; and, Patricia C. Wright, during the University’s first ever “Tweet-Up” – an official event of the 2014 Earthstock celebration.
Ray Mabus, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy, will deliver the commencement address at the University of Virginia’s 185th Final Exercises on May 18. The former governor of Mississippi and ambassador to Saudi Arabia will speak on the Lawn following the traditional academic procession.
Emmy Award–winner Chris Regan, a 1989 graduate of Ithaca College, has been selected to deliver the main address at the college’s 2014 Commencement ceremony, scheduled for May 18.
Saint Joseph’s University will grant honorary degrees to Frannie and James J. Maguire ’58 and David Hollenbach, S.J. ’64, Ph.D., at the 2014 Commencement ceremonies, which are set for Saturday, May 17.
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