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Select Press Releases from 2012:
2/1: Philadelphia University and TD Bank collaborate on project to design new energy-efficient bank of the future
1/10: McGraw-Hill publishes ninth edition of Philadelphia University President Spinelli’s popular textbook “New Venture Creation”
Select Press Releases from 2011:
12/15: Philadelphia University researchers receive $200,000 grant for work on bacteria-killing textiles that could help curb hospital infections
12/05: Philadelphia University industrial design program receives enthusiastic reaccreditation from National Association of Schools of Art and Design
11/18: Philadelphia University industrial design program receives enthusiastic reaccreditation from National Association of Schools of Art and Design
11/15: Philadelphia University names new Trustees to Board
10/31: Philadelphia University and Honeywell launch energy
awareness and education campaign
10/05: Designer Tommy Hilfiger will visit Philadelphia University
on Tuesday, Oct. 11
08/29: Philadelphia University receives rigorous ABET
accreditation for Engineering, Industrial and Systems
Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering programs
07/06: Philadelphia
University hosts Reebok Breakout Challenge basketball camp featuring some of the
nation’s top high school hoopsters July 6 to 9
06/11: Philadelphia University to break ground on academic building to support the innovative curriculum of the College of
Design, Engineering and Commerce on Friday, June 10
04/27: Philadelphia University will honor Tomio Taki, a leader in textile
and apparel manufacturing, with the honorary degree
Doctor of Humane Letters on Friday, April 29
04/26:
Philadelphia University will honor five outstanding
Leaders during its Evening of Innovation on Saturday, April 30
04/13:
Steve Blank, entrepreneur, educator and author, to speak at
Philadelphia University’s Commencement on Sunday, May 15
at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts
04/04:
Philadelphia University’s legendary Men’s Basketball
Coach Herb Magee will be inducted into the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
03/29:
Philadelphia University fashion students will compete in Project Capucci runway show on Friday, April 1, at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art
03/16:
Philadelphia University Physician Assistant Studies program ranked 18th nationally by U.S. News and World Report
03/01: Philadelphia University fashion design students
to showcase “Springtime in Paris” fashions at
Philadelphia International Flower Show
01/18:
Tommy Hilfiger, renowned designer known for preppy American sportswear style, will receive the 2011 Spirit of Design Award at the Philadelphia University Fashion Show
01/15:
Philadelphia University and MAG establish new Composites Institute to develop textile-based composites for industrial applications
Select Press
Releases from 2010:
11/22:
Philadelphia University Announces Groundbreaking New College of Design, Engineering and Commerce
11/10:
Philadelphia University’s new Center for Sustainability, Energy Efficiency and Design built to achieve LEED certification
10/10:
Philadelphia University senior business students win $4,000 first place prize in Toys“R”Us case competition
09/10:
Planning for Green Trail project to promote green space, business and work force initiatives in West Philadelphia to kick off Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 5 p.m. at Philadelphia University
08/31:
Dr. Jeffrey Ashley, environmental chemist at Philadelphia University, releases study on PCB contaminants in popular
fish oil supplements
07/08:
Philadelphia University Announces Plans for a Library to House Senator Arlen Specter’s Archives
06/08:
Philadelphia University’s advanced Laboratory for Engineered Human Protection to receive $1.29 million from the U.S. Department of Defense for research on military apparel
05/03: Philadelphia University will honor leaders of innovation and the best of this year’s student designs at the Spirit of Innovation Gala and Annual Fashion Show on Saturday, May 8
04/12:
U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., to speak at Philadelphia University Commencement on Sunday, May 16 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts
03/10: Philadelphia University Textile Design Students Sweep International Stylesight Competition
03/09: Philadelphia University Men’s Basketball Coach Herb Magee Honored by Philadelphia Mayor Nutter at City Hall Ceremony
02/23: Philadelphia University’s Legendary Men’s Basketball
Coach Herb Magee Notches 903rd Career Win, Tops Record of Bobby Knight
02/03: Philadelphia University’s Legendary Men’s Basketball
Coach Herb Magee Poised for 900th Career Win
01/28: Ecoman and the Skeptic, PhilaU’s award-winning green radio show, launches third season Thursday, Jan. 28, 3 to 4 p.m.
