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Events for February 09, 2007
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Narrative Medicine: The Healing Power of Stories
Fri, Feb 09, 2007
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
As part of the Medical Humanities Speaker Series, Dr. Rita Charon, internist and literary scholar, will engage students and faculty in dialogue about some of the core issues facing the health of individuals and society. She will present two talks, one on the University Campus and one on the Health Sciences Campus.Rita Charon is professor of clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and director of the program in narrative medicine. She is a general internist in practice in the Associates of Internal Medicine in Presbyterian Hospital. For more information on this event, please visit:http://www.usc.edu/webapps/events_calendar/custom/113/index.php?category=Item&item=0.861435&active_category=Upcoming
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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WiSE Postdoctoral Association
Fri, Feb 09, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
A group of post-docs has formed a cross-disciplinary group targeted at Women in Science and Engineering Post-docs. The goal is to provide networking, career, and social opportunities (for example, how to prepare for the academic job market, etc.) for women post-docs at USC.The group has been given seed money by USC's WiSE program and will hold meetings on the second Friday of each month, beginning February 9.For more information including location, please contact Angie Knapp (angelakn@usc.edu) or Katharine Moore (katharim@usc.edu).
Location: Seeley G. Mudd Building (SGM) - 414
Audiences: Postdoctoral Scholars in Sciences and Engineering
Contact: Nicole Hawkes
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Biodiesel In America - Setting the Stage
Fri, Feb 09, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker:Joe Gershen,
Tellurian Biodiesel,
PO Box 3096,
Santa Monica, CA 90408,
310.962.0488Title:
Biodiesel In America - Setting the StageAbstract:For many years energy has been taken for granted, with reliance upon nonrenewable petroleum, natural gas, coal and other fossil-based fuel reserves as a predominant source for transportation, power and home heating needs. Recent market conditions and energy security concerns along with increased environmental and climate change consciousness have created an awareness and demand for non-polluting, domestically produced, renewable resources to supplement our reliance upon petroleum fuels. Our energy future depends on finding sustainable energy solutions, and biodiesel is one of those solutions.The talk will be about the biodiesel marketplace, demand drivers, which include both energy policy and markets, acceptance of biodiesel by manufacturers, as well as opportunities and challenges which face this emerging industry.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - rielian Hall, 156
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Honors Program Colloquium: What is a Comet
Fri, Feb 09, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Lecture given by Dr. Paul Weissman, Senior Research Scientist at JPL.
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 122
Audiences: Faculty and Honors Program Students
Contact: Erika Chua
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Looking Out/Looking In: City of God
Fri, Feb 09, 2007 @ 06:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
A screening of "City of God" will be followed by a discussion with USC social work professor Kristin Ferguson. Dinner will be provided."City of God" (directed by Fernando Meirelleres and Katia Lund, Brazil, 2002) is about a housing project built in the 1960s that in the early '80s became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. This film captures one of the primary social-work concepts of person-in-environment while also demonstrating the failure of the government to reduce poverty, crime and substandard living conditions. USC social work professor Kristin Ferguson will lead a discussion following the film and will examine the latest research regarding social development in Latin American countries.Using the dynamics of film characters and plots as metaphors for both unhealthy and transforming behavior, fluid mental states and deep rooted social problems, the Looking Out/Looking In series will help the audience understand the internal world of people who seek counseling, types of group behavior and community assets and pathology to dispel myths and enlarge our understanding of the disenfranchised.
Location: George Lucas Instructional Building Room 108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
