A benefit art auction of School of Pharmacy Dean Victor Yanchick's "Watercolors" will open at 6 p.m. Feb. 3 at Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, with bidding beginning at 7. Lisa Schaffner is guest auctioneer. All proceeds go to SOP student scholarships! Free parking will be available at the N Deck, 10th and Leigh streets. RSVP to Chnoic Adams Clarke at (804) 828-4247 or ctadamsclark@vcu.edu.
February is American Heart Month, and Feb. 3 is National Wear Red Day. Please join SVSHP in helping to promote heart health awareness for women by wearing red on that Friday. SVSHP will be taking a group photo of red-wearers at noon Feb. 3 in the Smith Building first-floor lobby.
VCU Tech Transfer's VaBIO Greater Richmond Bioscience Luncheon, "Strategies for Winning Federal and State Commercialization Grants," takes place noon-1:30 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Robert Ball Conference Room, Biotech One, with networking 11:30 a.m.-noon. To register, visit https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=VABIO&WebCode=EventDetail&evt_key=7bb70275-5b0a-41be-9e93-4c33cbba656a. The first 25 VCU faculty, trainees and students to register may attend free of charge by using the following cosde: 1112-VCU. The code is not transferable outside of VCU.
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy 2012 Interim Meeting takes place Feb. 11-14 at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter in San Diego, Calif. For details, visit http://www.aacp.org/meetingsandevents/IM/IM12/Pages/default.aspx.
APPE VIII for fourth-year students runs Feb. 13 through March 15. Eight down, one to go!
The 2012 Virginia Pharmacists Association Midyear Conference takes place Feb. 25-26 at Williamsburg Lodge in Colonial Williamsburg. This year's theme is "Unlocking the Secrets of the Brain." For details, visit https://m360.virginiapharmacists.org/event.aspx?eventID=34541.
SOP alumni, students, faculty and friends are invited to a reception -- in conjunction with the 2012 VPhA Midyear Conference -- Feb. 25 at Williamsburg Lodge in Colonial Williamsburg. Time to be announced. Come join us!
The American Pharmacists Association 2012 Annual Meeting and Exposition takes place March 9-12 in New Orleans, La. This year's theme is "Driving Connections, Transforming Patient Care." For details, visit http://www.aphameeting.org/.
A reception for SOP alumni, students, faculty and friends -- in conjunction with the APhA 2012 Annual Meeting and Exposition -- will begin at 6 p.m. March 11 in the second-floor Marlborough Suite A at Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Two Poydras St., New Orleans. See you there!
Stop and smell the dandelions! Spring break runs March 12-16.
Save the date! Therapeutic Equivalence: Regulatory and Scientific Issues in Drug Product Development. a workshop organized by the SOP's Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program Advisory Board, will feature Dale P. Conner, Barbara M. Davit, John Z. Duan, Mehul Mehta, Eric Mittleberg and Leon Shargel. Moderators are Chandra Chaurasia and Angela Yuxin Men. More details to come. In the meantime, ask questions or reserve a space at the workshop by contacting Ellen Leverich at emleverich@vcu.edu.
Save the date! Catch up with former classmates, make new friends at Reunion Weekend 2012. More info to come, but for initial details, visit http://www.vcu-mcvalumni.org/events/reunion.html. Hope to see you here!