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.
Susan L. Wagner, co-founder and Director of BlackRock, will address the Class of 2014 and an international audience of their family and friends at Wellesley College’s 136th Commencement Exercises Friday, May 30, at 10:30 a.m.
Wes Moore is a best-selling author, Army combat veteran, social entrepreneur, and executive producer and host of a series with PBS on returning veterans called “Coming Back with Wes Moore".
Temple Grandin, the champion of autism rights and humane treatment of animals, will address one of three master's degree convocation ceremonies of Teachers College, Columbia University, on Tuesday, May 20th at 10 a.m. The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, co-founder and chair of the Abyssinian Development Corp., will address the master’s convocation, also on May 20th at 2 p.m. The Nobel laureate and science educator Carl Weiman will speak at the College's doctoral hooding ceremony on May 21 at 2 p.m.; and Sonia Nieto, an expert in multicultural education, will speak at a master's convocation ceremony on Monday, May 19 at 2 p.m. All four convocations will take place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan.
The famed Tianjin Peking Opera Company will perform April 12 at the University of Chicago's Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
NJ Gov. Chris Christie will deliver the keynote address to the Rowan University Class of 2014 on Fri., May 16. Gov. Christie, NJ State Senate President Stephen Sweeney and NJ Senator Donald Norcross will receive honorary degrees.
This year’s commencement speaker at Beacon College will be Patricia Latham, Immediate Past President of the Learning Disabilities Association of America and a founding member of Beacon College, America’s first four-year college for students with learning disabilities.
What happens when you cross unparalleled access to U.S. congressmen and defense and aerospace business leaders with the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and its approach to real-life business exploration?
Award-winning author and journalist Christopher Dickey will deliver the Commencement address at Hamilton College on Sunday, May 25, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Dickey will be awarded an honorary degree, along with Deborah Bial, founder and president of the Posse Foundation, and Thomas Schwarz, a 1966 Hamilton graduate and president of Purchase College.
Prima ballerina Gillian Murphy, principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, returns to her alma mater, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, to speak at high school commencement on May 17.
Hollywood film producer Jordan Kerner (SMURFS, CHARLOTTE'S WEB, FRIED GREEN TOMATOES) will speak at the 48th annual commencement ceremony of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts on May 10 in Winston-Salem.
The Bench-to-Bedside program is designed to introduce medical students, engineering students and business students to the world of medical device innovation. Student teams form into multidisciplinary “start-up” companies and are given the task of identifying an unmet clinical need.
A record total of 18,569 high school students have filed applications to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this fall, according to numbers released today by the Rensselaer Office of Admissions. This year’s total represents an increase of approximately 17 percent from last year at this time.
Greg Creed, chief executive officer for Taco Bell Corp., a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., will give the commencement address at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business graduation ceremony to be held June 16, 2014, in the Bren Events Center on the UC Irvine campus.
On Tuesday, April 8, three prominent figures in the ongoing debate over constitutional privacy rights in the face of growing government surveillance will speak at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The event is co-sponsored by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a nonprofit, nonpartisan whistleblower advocacy organization, as part of its American Whistleblower Tour, a series of events that brings whistleblowers to universities nationwide. The USC program, Patriot or Traitor? Whistleblowing and Journalism in the Age of Government Surveillance, will explore the critical balance between civil liberties and national security.
A University of Louisville faculty member will discuss obsessive-compulsive disorder for the general public at a free event on April 10.
How does the brain go from perceiving something to deciding what to do about it? The quest to understand brain functions associated with perception and decision making will be addressed Monday, March 31 at 4:30 pm at Stony Brook’s Staller Center at the Swartz Foundation’s Mind/Brain Lecture Series by guest lecturer William Newsome, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine and co-chair of Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Working Group, the recently announced initiative by President Barack Obama to revolutionize the understanding of the brain. Dr. Newsome will discuss his research from three decades of study as well as his involvement in the newly launched BRAIN initiative.
Eurofins Environmental Joins WV TAP on March 28 for the Public Presentations
The atrium at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine was abuzz with excitement as more than 140 fourth-year medical students learned where they will do their hospital residencies and take their next step in their careers.
Members of the class of 2014 at Albert Einstein College of Medicine continued a time-honored medical school tradition when they ripped open their personalized envelopes and learned where they will launch their careers as a doctors. On Match Day, fourth-year students at Einstein – and at medical schools around the country – discover where and in what specialty they will conduct their residency training. Residency begins after medical school graduation.
Match Day is the most anticipated day of the year for graduating students at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine as they learn where they will do their hospital residencies and take their next step in their careers.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences student-run Healing Clinic will host their 15th Annual Charity Auction this evening.
A new exhibit at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum will show how the living cared for the dead, and how the ancients conceptualized the idea of the human soul in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Israel/Palestine.
Everyday doctors and health care workers are faced with ethical questions about patient care. They need to decide if doctors should place limits on therapies that cause pain and suffering and determine what to do when patients cannot make decisions for themselves and family members refuse to intervene. Francis Barchi, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and wife of Rutgers President Robert Barchi, and Eric Singer, a urologic surgeon, are leading a new initiative that is bringing Rutgers undergraduate students to the table and encouraging them to learn about how bioethics affects more than just medicine.
The 2014 Women in Leadership Conference’s theme is “Design Your Future” – a day of thoughtful conversations and collaborations, from panel discussions to hands-on workshops, about how design thinking can produce innovations in products, services, and personal challenges … life!
Scholarly and media attention to same-sex relationships has skyrocketed in recent years. Yet social science research has not kept pace with the patterns and implications of same-sex relationships in the contemporary context. Bowling Green State University will take a closer look at the research into same-sex relationships during a symposium on March 26. “Same-Sex Couples: Frontiers in Measurement and Analysis” runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. in 201 Bowen-Thompson Student Union.
Announcement of four medalists and speakers at the 2014 convocations of Teachers College, Columbia University.
The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce will host the second Southeastern Conference MBA Case Study Competition April 3-5 at various venues across campus. All 14 universities from the SEC will take part in the competition with each school sending a team of four MBA students.
Saint Joseph's University's Department of Food Marketing will host the eighth annual Food Industry Summit on Thursday, March 13. This year’s summit, “Leveraging Omni-Channel Marketing with the Connected Consumer,” will feature executives from top companies including: Campbell's, Walgreens, Dunkin Donuts, Nestlé Purina PetCare, Catalina, Daymon Worldwide, Accenture and Bricks Meet Clicks.
Ithaca College students participate in an alternative Spring Break experience.
The Binghamton University theater department is bringing two of Rod Serling’s classic "Twilight Zone" episodes to the stage. Serling grew up in Binghamton, where he graduated from high school before enlisting in the Army in World War II.
“When we talk about food and cuisine, we're really talking about culture, about religion and about who you are. You can’t get much more local than when you think about what you eat,” said University of Virginia Darden School of Business alumna Katherine Neebe (MBA `04), director for sustainability and stakeholder engagement at Walmart.
March 17 stop in Utah is part of national lecture series organized by non-profit group CURE to raise awareness about epilepsy.
Brent C. James, M.D., M.Stat., will present the 2014 David Packard Lecture at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2014.
It’s never too early to encourage college students to find a way to turn an idea into a viable business, according to the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. To support this concept, the Lally School will host a business model competition for undergraduate and graduate students on February 26. This year, 11 student teams will have an opportunity to pitch their budding ideas to a panel of judges comprised of community members, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae with varying backgrounds in entrepreneurship and business.
Findings from the first phase of the largest-ever health study of Hispanics/Latinos will be presented at a community forum by Dr. Martha Daviglus, director of the University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for Minority Health Research and principal investigator for the Chicago Field Center of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Study participants and community leaders and city/public health officials will be present.
Business of Healthcare Conference Friday, February 28, 2014 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hotel Nikko, San Francisco http://haashealthcareconference.org/2014/
This moderated conversation between former Sens. Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar will examine their historic Cooperative Threat Reduction Program in light of today's concerns about Iran, North Korea, Syria and relations with Russia.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business began the month of February with a Leadership Speaker Series presentation from Roger Ferguson, president and CEO of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF).
The George Washington (GW) University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) will hold a public forum on February 25 that will address the prevalence and impact of eating disorders, especially on college campuses. The event will feature a keynote talk by Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and author of the best-selling book Obsessed: America’s Food Addiction---and My Own.
Join Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf at the March 5 Perimeter Institute Public Lecture to explore how ideas from quantum physics are putting modern mathematical ideas in a natural context.
The Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Awards, which have been presented annually since 1970, are the highest honor given to Wellesley alumnae. This year, the award goes to sustainability pioneer Eva Sommaripa and public health advocate C. Tracy Orleans.
UNM Cancer Center thanks donors and celebrates the faculty’s and the institution’s achievements in cancer treatment and research at Investiture Ceremony
On Thursday, Feb. 13, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) broke ground on a revolutionary Center for Collaborative Research (CCR) that will house an IBM supercomputer, one of Florida’s largest wet labs, the NSU Technology Incubator and some of the world’s most accomplished researchers.
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) and the Vitality Institute will host a forum on February 20 to explore the challenges associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and how to refine the health promotion message.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced the winners of its first sustainability innovation pitch night competition.
UChicago alums share career advice with students at annual Taking the Next Step event.
The Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago will mark its half-century of service with a symposium at UIC on March 6, 2 - 4 p.m. A March 4 symposium will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A reception will follow each. Both events are free and open to the public.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) commemorates its 150th anniversary at a symposium – “Building on 150 Years: The Future of National Banking” – hosted by the Boston University Center for Finance, Law & Policy on March 31, 2014, at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center.
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