Drew University News

Gretchen Coviello of Madison continues to accept donations for Christine's Crusade in the fight breast cancer.

In his paintings, surrealist Samuel Bak portrays his childhood memories of the Holocaust, bringing to life the terror and sadness he experienced in Europe in the 1930s.

Some people see any change to the current health-care system as a threat. Then there's Susan Kelly.

To read the way Jamie Duffy of NJ.Com gleefully tossed around the crude and childish term "teabaggers" seven times in a local story about a tea party in Morristown, New Jersey, you would think she was some snarky teenage intern who enjoyed using that vulgar pejorative.

Classic American songs from the pre-rock 'n' roll era will reverberate through the sanctuary of Chatham's Gloria Dei Lutheran Church during a free concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 6. Performing will be the church's minister of music, Tom Booth, who appears with his opera-singer wife, Carol Bayard.

Imagine being able to thwart HIV with a cream or prevent a baby from premature birth in the early stages of pregnancy with a simple urine test.

Charles Drew University has been awarded $9.8 million from three major national funders to support the university's long-term, UCLA partnership aimed at reducing the risk of cancer among minorities in poor and disadvantaged communities.

Meharry Medical College has been awarded a $21.4 million research grant, the largest in school history, to study disparities in minority health conditions.

An unusual lawsuit about what a federal judge has dubbed "poetry in motion" continues to pit Drew University against a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire.

When the clocks move back an hour at the end of daylight saving time this weekend, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are at greater risk than at any other time during the year.

A federal judge ruled a New Hampshire college may proceed with its lawsuit against Drew University and poet Anne Marie Macari, accused of stealing the school's poetry program and faculty and recreating the program in New Jersey.

Start your holiday season on the right note with the first performance of the Colonial Symphony's 2009-2010 season, 'Melodic Masterpieces,' at the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts at Drew University, Madison, at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Autumn has arrived, and so have the deeply hued leaves, jack-o'-lantern faces peering out of windows, rainbow-colored candy - and a generous dose of creepiness, just in time for Halloween.

Summit to Host "Girls' Night Out" in Conjunction with New Jersey Life Magazine By Summit Downtown Inc.

Ron Kevitz did not want sympathy. He battled cancer with an iron will, handling the unending treatments and harmful side effects with strength and dignity.

Gerry Adams, president of Ireland's largest nationalist political party, will appear at Drew University on November 5 as part of the school's 2009/10 Forum speaker series.

Internationally Acclaimed Photojournalist to Speak at Drew University, October 28th By Drew University 10/18/2009 The Drew University Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study invites the public to a special presentation by internationally acclaimed photographer Yuri Dojc on Wednesday evening, October 28, 2009, at 7:30 pm in the Learning Center room 28.

The 15th Annual Craft Fair sponsored by the Morris County Department of Human Services is scheduled for Saturday, November 7, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Morris View Healthcare Center, 540 West Hanover Ave., in Morris Township.

Regardless of whether or not someone enjoys writing as a craft, everyone has a relationship with language, published poet and professor Aracelis Girmay said.

While the Washington, D.C., that former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean grew up in still advocated segregation between races, the political parties that made up Congress then were significantly more integrated than they are today.