The Graduate Student Association (GSA) and the Graduate College welcome the Drexel community to join us for our December Books & Bagels: Conversations on Interdisciplinary Research program, which includes lunch, on Friday, Dec. 2 at 12 p.m. in the Graduate Student Lounge.

Can't make it? Join us online.

Shedane Shaw

Achieving Open Defecation Free Communities Using Community Led Total Sanitation in Zambia
MPH, Community Health and Prevention, Dornsife School of Public Health

Summary: The unique story of how the Madzimawe chiefdom in the Eastern Province of Zambia became an open defecation free palace can serve as a example for neighbhoring villages. I will be focusing on the public health significance of a Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) campaign that was triggered in 2012, as well as the influence of the campaign on residents’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices surrounding open defecation.

Katie Jo Sunday

Being Your True Self: Personally and in Engineering While in Graduate School
PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering

Summary: Is graduate school really only about your research, writing papers, presenting at conferences, completing your thesis, etc? To some, yes; but to others, HELL NO. It’s about you. It’s about your future and discovering your inner self. Engineering allows you to explore your love for math and science, but what about being authentic to yourself and truly being happy?    

Christopher Weyant, PhD

Faculty Moderator
Associate Teaching Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering