Friday, July 30, 2010

VCOM “Mini” Medical School with Wizard Professors and Potions Lab!

Wizard Mini Med School
What: “Mini” Medical School with Wizard Professors and Potions Lab!
Where: Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg – the event will take place at “VCOM II”, the building directly across the street from the main VCOM Campus at 2265 Kraft Drive. Signs will be posted on Kraft Drive.
Who: Young adults ages 11-15
When: August 5th, 1:00 – 2:30 PM
How: Advance registration is required. To register your young adult, please contact Stephanie Gardner, sgardner@vcom.vt.edu, (540-231-3926) or Jessica Muller, jmuller@vcom.vt.edu, (540-231-4112) and provide your name, your participant’s name and age, and an emergency contact number.

This program provides fun and engaging instruction about important health topics for young adults, including the health dangers of drugs, alcohol and smoking as well as HIV and STDs, and will include “Potions Lab” chemistry experiments. The program will be led by “Wizard” instructors who are faculty members and students at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. This program is part of the “Harry Potter’s World” summer programming series.

Space is limited, so register early!

VCOM coming event!

VCOM Library
HARRY POTTER PROGRAM EVENT

Morning Song Way

When: 1:00 pm on Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Where: Lyric Theatre, 135 College Avenue, Blacksburg

To augment his presentation as a Medicine in Virginia panelist, Charles Howard Thomas will be offering a special screening of his award-winning film, Morning Song Way, at The Lyric, a not-for-profit community theater in the heart of Blacksburg. Mr. Thomas is a member of the Ani-Stohini/Unami Nation, a small Indian tribe in the mountains of southern Appalachia primarily in the seven counties of Carroll, Grayson, Wythe, Washington, Smyth, Patrick, and Floyd in Virginia and Surry and Alleghany Counties in North Carolina. Mr. Thomas will lead a question and answer session for the film audience, discussing themes of cultural loss and preservation of heritage associated with his film.