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  Charles Drew University Research Home
Charles Drew University now ranks in the top 7% for the level of funding from over 3,000 NIH-funded institutions and in the top 50 Private Research Universities as rated by the Center for Measuring University Performance.
The #1 institution in the country in publication growth over this period among the top 200 institutions by level of NIH funding, was Charles Drew University with a 127% increase (the U.S. average is <1%).
In July 2007, the University was awarded a $9.5 million NIH-NCRR grant to lead a Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Translational Research Network to reduce health disparities and strengthen the research capacity of each of the 18 partner institution across the consortia.
www.cdrewu.edu /research   (304 words)

  
  Inventor Charles Richard Drew Biography
Drew was born in Washington, D.C. June 3, 1904 to Richard and Nora Drew, and was the oldest of five children.
Drew has been considered one of the most honored and respected figures in the medical field and his development of the blood plasma bank has given a second chance of life to millions.
Drew was instrumental in developing blood plasma processing and transfusion therapy, and his work with the Red Cross blood program during World War II laid the foundation for modern day blood banking.
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Charles Drew was born in 1904 in Washington D.C.'s foggy bottom area.
Drew was hospitalized for infected athletic spike injuries to his wrist and thigh.
Drew was a pioneer in surgery, surgical training, and surgical research.
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 EXN.ca | Discovery
Drew was intrigued by blood preservation and after some preliminary work in Montreal, applied for positions in the United States but encountered the discrimination of his youth when many hospitals refused to hire him.
Drew resigned in protest and returned to Howard University’s Freedman’s Hospital as chief surgeon and chief of staff.
Drew’s life and remarkable work were cut short on April 1, 1950 at the age of 45, when he was killed in a car accident in North Carolina.
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 Drew University focuses on its mission   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Then, Drew University established a college to grant basic medical degrees in partnership with UCLA, with students spending their first two years at UCLA and the final two at Drew.
County support In interviews, Kelly and Drew's board chairman, Bart H. Williams, set forth their inventory of challenges facing the university: First, they said, the county must be persuaded to continue to pay salaries for Drew's residents through the school term that ends in mid-2007.
In short, Drew University has charted a course to overcome its past, manage its tumultuous present and argue the case for its future while remaining faithful to its founding goal of providing doctors for the poor.
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 Drew University   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Drew University is located among an ancient oak forest 30 miles west of Manhattan in Madison, New Jersey.
Drew's mission is to provide students with a liberal arts education of the highest quality.
Drew's athletic facilities are impressive and include a polygrass stadium with lights, eight lighted tennis courts, several grass practice and playing fields and a modern 12-million dollar athletic center.
www.lvc.edu /mac/profiles/drew.html   (384 words)

  
 Health in the Community | Drew University Seeking To Increase Hispanic Leadership, Outreach Efforts - Kaisernetwork.org
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles is seeking to rebrand itself as a "multicultural institution" in recognition of "the need to expand beyond the school's African American roots to tap into the growing political clout held by Latinos, now the majority in South Los Angeles," the
Drew University and the Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, which is located across the street, opened in the early 1970s, shortly after the Watts riots, to address a lack of accessible medical care for residents of South L.A., which was predominantly fl at the time.
Under the new effort, Drew University is seeking to increase the number of Hispanics on the board of trustees and on the faculty.
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 Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement at BSC : Bridgewater State College
The man, for whom Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles is named, was a brilliant Black physician, famous for his pioneering work in blood preservation.
His first appointment at Howard University was as faculty instructor in pathology from 1935-36, and later as an instructor in surgery and an assistant at Freedmen's Hospital, a federally operated facility associated with Howard.
Drew resigned his position with the American Red Cross Blood Bank after the War Department sent out a directive stating that blood taken from white donors should not be mixed with that of Black donors.
www.bridgew.edu /HOBA/Drew.cfm   (551 words)

  
 Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, private, coeducational institution in Los Angeles, California.
Drew, Charles Richard (1904-1950), American surgeon, a pioneer in the development of blood banks.
Drew showed that blood plasma lasts longer than...
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 Drew University - College Closeup
Drew is committed to providing students with a global perspective through special off-campus programs, a variety of area studies programs, and curricular opportunities to investigate the history, economics, politics, literature, religions, and cultures of other nations and heritages.
Drew also has a graduate school, which offers eleven master’s and eight doctoral programs in the humanities, as well as a theological school, which offers five professional degrees.
Nearly one quarter of Drew’s first-year students graduated in the top 5 percent of their high school class; approximately 40 percent in the top tenth; and 75 percent graduated in the top 25 percent.
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 Employer Profile: Drew University
About Madison, NJ Drew is a close-knit, highly selective university located on almost 200 wooded acres in the foothills of northern New Jersey, 30 miles from New York City and five minutes from Morristown, NJ, the military capital of the Revolutionary War.
Drew is led by Robert Weisbuch, former president of the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation, who became Drew's eleventh president in July 2005.
Drew's campus is primarily residential and most of its more than 1,500 undergraduates and the majority of its Caspersen and Theological school students live on campus.
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 Drew University reaches out to Latinos   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Drew University President Susan Kelly says the school needs to 'reinvent itself' to find ways to better serve the healthcare needs of the poor in areas that have undergone a dramatic demographic shift.
Drew has consisted of a residency program, a medical school that offers basic medical degrees in partnership with UCLA and a college of science and health to train medical technicians.
Encouraged to build a new 'culture of accountability,' Drew University revamped its board of trustees and earlier this year hired Kelly, a native of Australia who is the first woman and the first white to head the school.
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 Keri Systems : Case Studies : Drew University
Drew is a highly selective university located on 186 wooded acres in Madison, New Jersey.
Drew's College of Liberal Arts, established in 1928, has earned recognition as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation.
Drew prides itself as being one of the safest campuses in the nation.
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 African American Registry: Charles Drew University, medicine for the World!
Drew University’s curriculum, in both colleges, focuses on giving students the skills and knowledge they need to provide care in the context of a poor, underserved and racially and ethnically diverse population.
In the past several years, Drew University has undergone a transition from a primarily clinical care focus, to a more traditional academic agenda where education and service are enriched by a research enterprise.
The Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science is located in the Watts-Willowbrook section of South Central Los Angeles, directly adjacent to the King/Drew Medical Center (Directions).
www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2256/Charles_Drew_University_medicine_for_the_World   (476 words)

  
 Daily Record News - Drew’s $12 million ‘musician’s dream’   (Site not responding. Last check: )
No longer relegated to rehearsing in the university’s gymnasium, the students were cocooned in a sound-proof performance hall, the centerpiece of a new $12 million music wing set to open this weekend.
The chorale is a chorus in residence at Drew.
Yet, when the university broke ground on the $20 million Dorothy Young Center for the Arts in April 2001, the music wing was on hold, due to a lack of funding.
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 Drew CARES   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Drew CARES, a center for clinical, educational and research excellence in HIV/AIDS is based at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Central Los Angeles.
Shalender Bhasin, M.D., is a professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine of the Department of Medicine at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
Gail E. Wyatt, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry at Drew University and at UCLA.
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 Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Drew Rethinks Doctorates   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Drew is far from alone in grappling with the role of graduate education.
The foundation’s longtime president, Robert Weisbuch, became Drew’s president in July 2005, and although he has repeatedly said that he wants the Casperson graduate school to become the intellectual center of the Drew campus, significant numbers of professors on the campus are suspicious of his motives.
Less hopefully, they suspect that Drew might be heading toward abandoning doctoral education and focusing on master’s level work in these fields, noting that the university did not suspend admission to its master’s programs when it temporarily shuttered the doctoral ones.
insidehighered.com /news/2006/09/19/drew   (3324 words)

  
 College Profile of Drew University
Drew is a highly selective, yet close-knit and supportive university located on almost 200 wooded acres in the rolling foothills of Morris County, New Jersey, just 30 miles from Manhattan.
Drew is led by Thomas H. Kean, former two-term Governor of New Jersey, who became the school’s tenth president in 1990.
Drew believes that, by using computers, students develop special skills which enhance their learning and professional development and help them to be more successful in graduate school or the workplace.
www.thehighschoolgraduate.com /editorial/NJ/NJcp_1.htm   (622 words)

  
 Charity Navigator Rating - Drew University
Founded in 1867 as a Methodist seminary, Drew University is today an independent university of distinction with an abiding belief in the liberal arts and the use of technology in support of teaching and learning.
The university gains its strength from an endowment of over $200 million, among the top in the nation on a per student basis, and annually draws more National Merit Scholars than many of the other top liberal arts colleges in the nation.
Drew is a close-knit, highly selective university located on almost 200 wooded acres in the foothills of northern New Jersey.
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 Drew University
Drew is a close-knit, highly selective university located on almost 200 wooded acres in northern New Jersey, 30 miles from New York City.
Drew is comprised of three schools: College of Liberal Arts, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies and Theological School.
Today Drew is an independent university with an abiding belief in the liberal arts and the use of technology in support of teaching and learning.
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 Charles Drew University
When you make a contribution to Charles Drew University, you have a variety of options in determining how your gift will be utilized.
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science invites all alumni, friends, parents, faculty and staff to leave a permanent mark at CDREWU by purchasing a brick with a personal inscribed message.
Upon conclusion of the established term, the trust terminates and, according to the terms of the trust instrument, distributes its remaining assets (called the remainder interest) back to you or to one or more individuals that you have specified.
alumni.cdrewu.edu /make-a-gift.asp   (719 words)

  
 Drew University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The College of Liberal Arts admitted its first class of 12 students in 1928, after the trustees of the Drew Theological Seminary voted to accept a gift of $1.5 million from brothers Arthur and Leonard Baldwin to build and endow such an institution, and to change the name of the institution to Drew University.
Drew was the first liberal arts college to have such a requirement (Drexel University being the first school overall one year earlier).
Drew University is home to the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and the archives of the United Methodist Church.
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 Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
He has had a distinguished career in academic health center leadership, having served as President of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for 10 years prior to his appointment at the Association in 1988.
He has held tenured academic posts in internal medicine, community medicine, and public health at four major universities, concentrating his laboratory and clinical research in infectious diseases and the clinical pharmacology of antibiotics.
He was elected a Tanner Lecturer at Cambridge University and is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.
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 Dr. Charles R. Drew - News
The Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science Board of Trustees selected Thomas Yoshikawa, M.D., Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, to fill the newly created position of Provost/Chief Operating Officer and Acting President, effective July 1.
Los Angeles, California, June 27, 2005—Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science announced today the election of Thomas M. Priselac, MPH, to its Board of Trustees.
Los Angeles, California, May 23, 2005—Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science will pay tribute to Mervyn M. Dymally, California State Assembly member for the 52nd District, by awarding him with the President’s Medal as it bestows degrees to more than 200 of the nation’s future healthcare leaders.
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 Drew University Math/CS Department
The mission of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is to provide contemporary educational opportunities for those in the Drew University community who will benefit from knowledge of mathematics, statistics, and computing and the social and ethical environments in which we practice these disciplines.
We strive to help our students develop the following: a facility for effective problem analysis, a keen sense of the appropriate application of existing problem-solving techniques and technologies, and the ability to innovate when necessary.
In all its activities, the department endeavors to be inclusive and equitable, and to recognize and challenge biases and negative stereotypes.
www.depts.drew.edu /math   (153 words)

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