1020 Locust Street
Jefferson Alumni Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Monday - Friday
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
This page contains information on upcoming activities and intiatives sponsored by Offices within the Division of Student Affairs. In line with our mission, all Office of Student Life & Engagement programs are only open to matriculated Jefferson students unless otherwise noted (must have valid Jefferson STUDENT ID).
To view additional information for an event, just click on the event name. If you have any questions about events sponsored by our office, please feel free to contact us at StudentLife@jefferson.edu or 215-503-7743.
Date/Time: Friday, March 14th (All Day)
Location: Jefferson Recreation & Fitness Center- Front Desk
Description: Each 1st Friday of the month, the JRFC hosts a fast, free, & fun fitness challenge for an opportunity to score a sweet prize!
This program was moved to the 2nd Friday of March due to earlier closures.
Date/Time: Monday, March 17th (All Day)
Location: Jefferson Recreation & Fitness Center -Front Desk
Description: The first 200 members to work out at the JRFC on St. Patrick’s Day will receive a scratch at great prizes!
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 18th (11:00am-4:30pm)
Location: JAH Atrium
Description: The Office of Campus and Community Engagement (OCCE) is thrilled to present a unique cultural experience and community engagement event: A Japan Experience at Jefferson. Join us on March 18, 2025, at the Atrium of Jefferson Alumni Hall for an immersive journey into Japanese culture and arts. This special event is made possible with the support of Urasenke Philadelphia and talented Ikebana artists. Get ready to immerse yourself in Japanese culture right here on campus! Be sure to wear comfortable pants or long skirts and toe-covered socks for the events—we’ll be sitting on traditional Japanese tatami mats while enjoying delicious Japanese food and tea (food sessions are sold out).
Date/time: Tuesday, March 18th (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Location: Scott Memorial Library 200A
Description: Join us for a discussion of chapter eight from the 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America by Linda Villarosa. Facilitators: Krys Foster, MD, MPH, Clinical Associate Professor, Associate Residency Program Director, Thomas Jefferson University and Katherine Hubbard, MA, Teaching Instructor, JeffMD Humanities Selectives, Sidney Kimmel Medical College. Credit available for the Asano Humanities & Health Certificate and the Anti-Racism in Health Focus.
Lunch Provided
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 19th (5:30pm-6:30pm)
Location: Jefferson Recreation & Fitness Center-Free Weight Room
Description: Learn weight training techniques and form from skilled student lifters. All skill levels welcome!
This lift session will focus on chest and triceps.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 20th (6pm)
Location: Jefferson Recreation & Fitness Center- Studio 1
Description: Find your inner peace, balance, and strength through yoga and strength training.
No sign-up required.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 20th & Wednesday March, 26th (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Location: Jefferson Alumni Hall Lobby
Description: Stop by to talk to our staff about your resume and plant a FREE Succulent!
*While Supplies Last*
Date/Time: Thursday, March 20th (3:00pm-5:00pm)
Location: Eakins Lounge
Description: The JRFC Spring Wellness Event combines animal therapy, delicious offerings, creative activities, and social interactions – all essential components that contribute to holistic wellness for our Jefferson student population. Our dog and rabbit friends from Pals for Life will be here to spread love with JeIerson students! Playa Bowls will be present with a cold brew bar and prize wheel, offering various items and coupons. Insomnia cookies will be provided until supplies last.
Date/Time: Thursday, March 20th (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Location: Hamilton 505
Description: The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) play a significant role in individual and population health outcomes. SDOH is affected by many factors. One factor is racism as it affects all aspects of SDOH. In this session, we’ll define racism, examine its history as it relates to the social determinants of health, and examine the city of Philadelphia’s health outcomes by neighborhood. Facilitator: Bernard L. Lopez, MD, MS, CPE, FACEP, FAAEM, Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Thomas Jefferson University. Credit available for the Asano Humanities & Health Certificate and the Anti-Racism in Health Focus.
Lunch Provided
Date/Time: Friday, March 21st (2:00pm)
Location: Jefferson Recreation & Fitness Center- Free Weight Room
Description: The goal of Women Led Lifting is to make the Free Weight Room an accessible environment for everyone.
All skill levels are welcome.
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 25th (12:00pm)
Location: Jefferson Alumni Hall- Front Lobby
Description: The JRFC Blender Bike is the world's best high performance bike blender, a top-of-the-line stationary bike that makes smoothies, protien shakes, and refreshing drinks. Pedal your wayto a delicious and refeshing treat while supplies last.
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 26th (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Location: Jefferson Alumni Hall M24
Description: Imagine this: You’re stranded at sea with a lifeboat that can only hold a few survivors. Who stays? Who goes? And more importantly-why? The Office of Student Life and Engagement is hosting the lifeboat activity. Join us for a thought-provoking experience where we’ll dive deep into the hidden way we label, stereotype, and make snap judgments about others. Get ready to challenge your biases, rethink assumptions, and see just how tricky decision-making can be when it really counts. Will you sink or swim? Let’s find out!
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 26th (11:30am-1:30pm)
Location: Jefferson Alumni Hall
Description: Join us for a special Health & Wellness Festival in celebration of National Nutrition Month with food, wellness activities, and exciting giveaways! See the schedule of events below:
11:00 AM | Nutrition & Wellness Fair
Local Business Expo – explore local food spots, gyms & a FIGS Pop-Up
Community Engagement- explore local volunteer opportunities
12:00 PM | Dietitian Q&A
Guest speakers Carly, founder of Prepped by Carly & Maggie, Registered Dietitian
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Yoga Session
Come celebrate how food connects us all—learn, engage, and enjoy free food, resources, and wellness activities!
Date/time: Wednesday, March 26th (5:30pm-6:30pm)
Location: Jefferson Recreation & Fitness Center-Free Weight Room
Description: Learn weight training techniques and form from skilled student lifters. All skill levels welcome.
This lift session will focus on back and biceps.
Date/Time: Friday, March 28th (6:00pm)
Location: Movement Callowhill (Cliffs at Callowhill)
Description: Enter to win one spot on the JRFC March Adventure Club to Movement Callowhill for a 2-hour indoor rock climbing experience. Registration closes on March 21st at 11:59pm. Winners will be contacted via email.
Date/Time: Monday, March 31st (11:00am-2:00pm)
Location: Jefferson Alumni Hall
Description: Jefferson Colleges of Health Professions, Life Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, Population Health, and Rehabilitation Sciences.
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 1st (11:30am-Until Supplies Last)
Location: Jefferson Alumni Hall Atrium
Description: Join Student Affairs, Student Groups, and Community Organizations for diverse food, music, and more...
Date/Time: Wednesday April 2nd (5:00pm-6:00pm)
Location: Kanbar Performance Space, East Falls Campus
Description: Co-sponsored by Jefferson's Creativity Core Curriculum and the Kanabar Diversity Action Committee, this event supports the 2024-25 theme, "Creativity Within Conflict." Speaker, Yphtach Lelkes, is co-director of the Center for Information Networks and Democracy and co-director of the Polarization Research Lab. His presentation will speak to how the tension between exploration—seeking out new ideas—and exploitation—relying on the familiar—drives decision-making across all levels of life, from primitive organisms searching for food to algorithms shaping our newsfeeds. Exploration sparks discovery and learning but can spread misinformation or overwhelm us with novelty. Exploitation, while efficient and reliable, risks creating echo chambers and deepening societal divides through hyper-personalized content. Through examples spanning nature, social systems, and AI, we'll uncover how to balance the positives and pitfalls of these dynamics to foster better decisions, healthier information habits, and fairer algorithms that can support creativity.
Date/Time: Thursday, April 3rd (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Location: JAH Atrium
Description: In this workshop guests will create drawing collages from a selection of artist materials and medical materials common to Dominic Quagliozzi’s artistic practice; graphite, colored pencils, watercolor paper, tape, Betadine (povidone iodine).
Credit available for the Asano Humanities & Health Certificate.
Date/Time: Friday, April 4th (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Location: JAH Atrium
Description: Michelle Browder is the artist, sculptor, and creator of The Mothers of Gynecology Monument in Montgomery, Alabama. Browder’s monument reclaims the history of the enslaved Black women – Anarcha, Betsey and Lucy – who underwent medical experimentation by physician J. Marion Sims in the late 1840s. A decade earlier, Sims received his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College.
Credit available for the Asano Humanities & Health Certificate and the Anti-Racism in Health Certificate.
Lunch provided while supplies last.
Date/Time: Monday, April 7th ( 12:00pm-1:00pm)
Location: Scott Memorial Library 200A
Description: Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. The Open Heart Club is both a memoir of a life on the edge of medicine's reach and a history of the remarkable people who have made such a life possible. Facilitator: Katherine Hubbard, MA, Teaching Instructor, JeffMD Humanities Selectives, Sidney Kimmel Medical College.
Credit available for the Asano Humanities & Health Certificate.
Lunch Provided
Date/Time: Monday April 7th (5:00pm-6:00pm)
Location: Zoom
Description: In order to effectively care for others, we must first learn to care for ourselves. This virtual workshop will introduce you to a variety of music-based experiences designed to promote healthy stress management and burnout prevention. Facilitated by Peggy Tileston, MT-BC.
Credit available for the Asano Humanities & Health Certificate.
Date/Time: Friday, April 11th (11:30am-2:30pm)
Location: Kanbar Preformance Space, East Falls Campus
Description: A FREE event for our community! Join us for games, activities, treats, and prizes as we playfully explore our 2024-25 theme, "Creativity Within Conflict."
Date/Time: Monday, April 14th (6:00pm-8:00pm)
Location: Connelly Auditorium- Hamilton Building
Description: ApHA-Asp is hosting a SUD event on April 14. Guest speaker is Dr. Kristen Holden-Stocklos (Pharm D), Susan Fasulo from Angles in Motion and Rosalind Pichardo from Operation Save our City. Join us for an insightful event addressing the stigma surrounding substance use disorder. Listen firsthand from our keynote speaker and panelists as they share their personal experience, shedding light on their journey of recovery. As Healthcare professionals, this is an opportunity to learn how to offer the best support to those who are affected by substance use. Plus, don't miss a chance to connect with the organizations during our awareness fair and dinner is on us!
Dinner provided.
Date/Time: Wednesday, April 16th (11:00am- until supplies last)
Location: Lubert Plaza
Description: Join the Office of Student Life & Engagement for our OSLE Springfest. Enjoy an early afternoon of fun filled with lawn games, water ice, soft pretzels, and more!