I am a pre-medical student currently attending Temple University, pursuing a degree in bioengineering, a biology minor and a certificate of specialization in Arabic. I became interested in climate change and alternative energies because of it’s basis in science, and truly believe in the power of the people. In 1968, the students at the University of Paris launched a series of protests that launched a series of protests across the country; if they can do it, so can we!
Nadia Elkaddi
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What’s The Hold-up?!
January 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If any of you out there in the World Wide Web have read this months Scientific American, their main feature was “10 World Changing Ideas,” and number nine on that list the idea to create organisms that secrete fuel-dense hydrocarbons that can be used instead of the current pesky fossil fuels. Sounds promising, huh? Especially with such a catchy title as “Gas from Trash.” But wait, what happened to those promising corn-based fuels they have been talking about for a few years, why aren’t they on the market yet? Why aren’t we actually using … [Read more...]
What Engineers of the Future Have to Offer
January 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Andy Williams once said: “It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” Personally, I think he was referring to Senior Design Day rather than Christmas. Feel free to disagree (especially if you are an engineer). Senior design is what every engineering senior must undergo to have the privilege to graduate and enter the “real world.” Twice a year, once a semester, the students present their projects. On this day, the engineering department was all a-buzz with the sounds of seniors rushing frantically to finish their posters and … [Read more...]
The Plague of Universities
November 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Nadia Elkaddi, Environment Issue Analyst “We want to have an event for Earth Day with DJ, music, big screen TV., the whole thing but we want to have it be a 100% carbon free.” “How are you planning on powering this?” “We’re not sure, we were thinking using bikes?” “How many bikes were you thinking?” “Like three or four?” “Yea…three or four bikes will power the tv, DJ and speakers take a lot more power.” This exchange recently took place between two students from the Fox Business School at Temple … [Read more...]
What youth can do about climate change
October 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Nadia Elkaddi Nadia is one of AIDemocracy’s 2010-2011 Issue Analysts. Find out more about Nadia below or take a look at the Student Issue Analysts. Dick York: Betty, the next time you remove the pages from my calendar, don’t throw them away. Betty: What should I do with them? Dick York: Use them. [showing a calendar page]. See makes perfectly good scratch paper. [Laughter] Betty: No! I won’t cry. He’ll say I’m wasting water! For those who were never informed by their baby-boomer parents, Dick York was stars of the hit show … [Read more...]
