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WWW vcumed2009.com Campus News: Tips from M-III Students Check the elearning section of the class website for a few tips from M-III students who have completed a rotation. Send tips to mdkovacs@gmail.com M3 BOOK LIST An important message from Payal Patel concerning books for the M3 year: During the M3 workshop week we had the current M3's rate all the books they used for each rotation. Thanks to your curriculum reps (Erin, Julie, Emily, Payal, and Ali) we compiled all the data on each book to let you guys know what they thought was most useful! Hopefully you guys find this helpful, and if you have any questions please email me at patelps@vcu.edu. M3 Book List (.doc) M3 book List Tally (.xls) Archived Campus News February 2007 Kunle in the News Olakunle Idowu was recently featured in a Richmond Times Dipatch piece titled "Why aren't black men choosing medicine?" Click here to view the article. Date/Service Auction Saturday February 24th we will be co-hosting this year's Date/Service Auction with the VCU SOM Class of 2008. Thirty percent of the proceeds collected will be donated to the Richmond Battered Women's Shelter. To view the flier with all the details click here. Skull and Bones The Winter 2007 edition of Skull and Bones is here! Click on the picture below to view the edition, which contains some wonderful entries from members of the Class of 2009. Define birth control, bill urges Our very own Jen Buckley and Uppinder Mattu were recently quoted in a Richmond Times Dispatch piece on proposed legislation to protect birth control from abortion laws. To read the article click here. January 2007 Ben Orr Memorial Scholarship from the Class of 2009 At the end of last semester we decided to fundraise $1000.00 to be given to a rising M2 student in honor of Ben Orr, our classmate who died of cancer. Ultimately we planned and executed a very successful fundraiser and raised more money than we originally thought possible. We were very pleased with the tremendous outpouring of support that was shown by students and faculty alike toward our fundraiser and are proud to announce that we were able to raise $1600.00 to fund the creation of this scholarship and we would like to once again thank all those who supported us. Note: Pictured are the Class of 2009 Officers presenting Dean Strauss and Dr. Wood with the check to fund the scholarship. Food Drive for Dialysis Patients Lucia Smith (our community service chair) along with Jimmy Sismanis organized a food drive for dialysis patients during the end of last semester; we also collected food at our holiday party. Ultimately over 50 bag lunches were assembled that contained breakfast cereals, condensed milk and a low sodium meat w/ one or two drinks. The lunches were then given to low income patients that came to the dialysis center. August 2006 Say hello to the newest member of the Class of 2009 "family". Abigail (Abby) Mae Anike Olarinde was born on June 18 at 2:21pm (Father's Day). She was 8 lbs 4.7 oz. Many congratulations to Dapo and his wife Karen! To see more cute pics click here. May 2006 The Spring edition of Skull & Bones is here! Click on the picture below to view the edition, which contains some excellent entries from members of the Class of 2009. February 2006 Be sure to check out the winter Skull & Bones (link below), which includes some wonderful contributions from quite a few members of the class! There was excellent Class of 2009 turnout for the February 3rd National Women's Heart Health Day. Thanks to all who wore red and helped support this event. Click here for the VCUNews story and pic. More pics of the event can also be found in the Pictures section. October 2005 As a class we raised about $400 for the "Light the Night" program to help give hope to people with blood cancers. Thanks so much to Steve for your excellent organizing and fundraising efforts and to all who donated time and/or money to this worthy cause! Also, our clothing drive was a huge success. We donated a total of 325.9 lbs of clothes, which will be distributed to those in need in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Thanks to Rishi for organizing this great service project, and to Lesli, Brian, and Shilen for your time in loading and mailing off the clothes. Thanks to all who donated! Health News: August Birthdays: 20 - Marie Rodgers 21 - Michael Singleton 24 - Amy O'Toole 31 - Jill Zackrisson 31 - Jemilat Badamas Countdown to MD: Webmaster: Mark D. Kovacs