ExCITe Center (3401 Market Street), February 16, 2015

Academic and industry leaders alike have called for graduates entering the workforce to be creative, innovative, and able to work collaboratively with others. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Design, and Mathematics) is a growing national movement to address this need, arguing for a broader approach to learning that emphasizes the creativity and “making" that is common to both the Arts & Design and the STEM fields. The ExCITe Center, focusing on creative technologies for human expression, employs the STEAM framework to develop best practices for multidisciplinary research and pedagogy, incorporating the latest technology and innovations for learning.

The workshop program, approximately 10am-3pm, will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Gaël McGill, Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics (Harvard Medical School), co-founder and CEO of Digizyme, Inc., and co-author with E.O. Wilson of the acclaimed Life on Earth interactive textbook (Apple iBook). Click here to learn more about E. O. Wilson's Life on Earth.

The program will also highlight novel education efforts in the region integrating STEM with the Arts & Design, incorporating small group discussions and hands-on demonstrations of STEAM programs in action.

The workshop is open to the Drexel community and select external education partners.

We have reached maximum capacity for this event. If you wish to be put on the waitlist, please email excite@drexel.edu.

Agenda

9:30am: Registration and coffee

10:00am: Introduction & invited short presentations

11:00am: Keynote presentation by Dr. Gaël McGill

12:00pm: Invited short presentations

12:30pm: Lunch and small group discussions

2:00pm: ExCITe "Hack-Jam" (hands-on demonstrations, hacking, making, and jam session)

Keynote Presenter

Dr. Gaël McGill is Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics at Harvard Medical School where he also teaches scientific visualization. He is the founder and CEO of Digizyme, Inc. a firm dedicated to the visualization and communication of science through advanced technology applications. Dr. McGill is the creator of the online portal molecularmovies.org and the Molecular Maya software toolkit. He is also a technical editor for Wiley/SYBEX Publishing where he has contributed to leading Maya and ZBrush textbooks. Dr. McGill is also currently the Digital Media Director for E.O. Wilson’s ‘Life on Earth’ next-generation digital biology textbook. He has served as a scientific and communications consultant for the Boston Scientific Corporation and is also a scientific advisory board member of Vast Scientific, Sage Science and a board member of the Vesalius Trust. After working at Dupont-Merck Pharmaceuticals and INSERM/Cochin Hospital in Paris, he completed his PhD at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Medical Sciences (Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology) and postdoctoral fellowship at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. His research on the mechanisms of tumor cell death/apoptosis was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals fellowships. He received his B.A. summa cum laude in Biology, Music, and Art History from Swarthmore College.