May

Pennsylvania Bar Association will host the 2010 tournament, and Drexel, which will present a $100,000 check to the PBA on May 30, will serve as leadership sponsor of the event.

The late Drexel trustee Harold Pote will receive a posthumous degree.

The show rivals any professional show in the commercial fashion world, showcasing six graduate collections and 30 senior collections.

Drexel will open a Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento in January 2009 and and establish a $10 million fund for fellowships for students.

David Elkins, vice president and chief financial officer of AstraZeneca North America and a 1995 LeBow graduate will address students on the pharmaceutical industry as a career industry of choice.

Student Produced Drama Series University 101 goes into production and will air on DUTV.

The 17-story building will house 500 students in a hybrid suite configuration with a series of shared living areas.

Richardson will be presented the Eastern Technology Council's Titans of Technology award during his visit to Drexel on May 19. His speech will focus on oil, energy and foreign and domestic policy.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has awarded the Drexel University Athletics Department the Diversity in Athletics Award.

Drexel's commuter students will show off their wheels on campus at the third annual Commuter Car Show on May 14.

Sigma Psi Zeta will hold a candlelight vigil May 13 in commemoration of female victims of violence and listen to testimony from an abuse survivor.

The Global Film Festival Connects Millions of People Live Through the Power of Film, Music, and Culture

More than 600 students from Greater Philadelphia, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland will square off in the third annual Greater Philadelphia Sea Perch Challenge on May 10 at Drexel.

The Center was among just 24 organizations named national models as part of a research project conducted by Health Workforce Solutions LLC and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Adrienne Poon was one of 300 students from 100 colleges and universities nationwide to enter the Kaiser Family Foundation’s contest.

With a $3,000 budget, the class created Six Star Associates Consulting—inspired by Subaru’s six-star logo—and launched its advertising concept “Fall in love with a Subaru.”

The flag, created in 1997 by Joseph T. Finn, president of Automated Builders Consortium Foundation, represents King’s mission of peace, love and brotherhood. The flag, which will be raised May 6, flies in Atlantic City, N.J., and Finn plans to fly it in cities nationwide.

About 350 students and alumni runners will compete in the annual University City 5K Run on May 3 in celebrating the memory of Nick Pipino, a Drexel student who was fatally stabbed 16 years ago.

Drexel's law school will be named in honor of philanthropist Earle Mack, Drexel Class of ’59, a businessman, arts advocate and former U.S. ambassador to Finland, at a ceremony May 1.