Events Calendar

The College of Engineering Alumni Association (COEAA) and the Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Association (MEGA) will be volunteering at Philabundance’s South Philadelphia Hunger Relief Center, located at 3616 S. Galloway Street (where Columbus Boulevard turns into Pattison Avenue, by 3rd Street). After a brief orientation from 8:30-9, packed and sorted food will be delivered to thousands of Philadelphia’s neediest families at risk of hunger and malnutrition. Philabundance delivers food to 65,000 low-income residents each week, 23% of which are children and 16% of which are senior citizens. T-shirts will be provided for all volunteers, care of the Drexel University Alumni Association.

In his presentation to the Drexel community, Inspector Bailor will cover the mission of the U.S Capitol Police and what lead up to the preparation and training necessary for a bio response. He will give a detailed outline of the logistics of how the letters containing anthrax made their way through the mail system and into the Hart Senate building, and his team’s response to the threat. He will finish will an analysis of the first responders’ efforts and the lessons learned in hindsight.

Drexel’s living wall is North America’s largest living biofilter and the only such structure installed at a U.S. university. Bill Taylor, Physical Plant Director, will give an introduction about the Science Center systems. Dr. Alan Darlington of Nedlaw Living Walls will speak on the benefits of integrating living walls within architecture. Doctors Michael Waring, Jacob Russell and Shivanthi Anandan (Drexel Professors) will speak on the current research examining the effects on the interior atmosphere and its potential health benefits for commercial and academic applications. At the conclusion we will tour the centerpiece of Drexel University’s new Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, the 22-foot wide, 80-foot tall biowall.

Drexel’s chapter of the National Organization for Business and Engineering (NOBE) is hosting this year’s NOBE national conference. The conference will include educational and networking events as well as panel discussions, lectures, and workshops presented by companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Microsoft, as well as LeBow College of Business and Drexel’s Engineering College. The conference will also include social events and a trip into Center City, Philadelphia. More Information: For more information, please contact Mathilde Berger at mpb72@drexel.edu.