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VCU alumni can take advantage of a special membership discount opportunity at the Bull & Bear Club located in downtown Richmond. The club is on the 21st floor of One James Center at 901 E. Cary St. The club features...
Virginia Commonwealth University announced today it will join the Atlantic 10 Conference effective July 1, 2012. VCU examined several options, including remaining in its current conference home, the Colonial Athletic Association, and multiple factors led to the decision to...

Arts: Dressed to impress

As the house lights went down at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts on the evening of May 6, Danielle Ashe prepared herself to watch nearly 11 months of hard work come to fruition. The show director for the Virginia...
During spring commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 12, former U.S. congressman J.C. Watts Jr. told Virginia Commonwealth University's newest graduates that forgiveness, family and friends, generosity and a willingness to be challenged were critical principles to a stable, successful life. Watts,...
During Reunion Weekend 2012, the Department of Occupational Therapy in the School of Allied Health Professions at Virginia Commonwealth University celebrated 70 years of educating occupational therapists to promote healthy hearts, minds, bodies and lives.More than 70 alumni and friends...

Dentistry: Notable alumnus dies

J. Gary Maynard (D.D.S. '62/D) of Richmond, Va., died May 8, 2012. He practiced periodontics for 40 years and taught in the Virginia Commonwealth University Perio-Graduate Program in the School of Dentistry. Just this April, the VCU School of Dentistry...
Shock, excitement and joy were among the emotions running through Chesterfield schools today when three teachers learned they are the school division's top Teachers of the Year. A delegation of school system and county leaders brought banners, cakes and balloons...
The VCU School of Pharmacy 2012 Lowenthal Symposium takes place 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 24 at the Larrick Student Center, 901 Turpin St. "New Drug Targets in Mental Health" covers topics ranging from "Translational Genetics in Drug Discovery and Development"...

Pharmacy: Alumni share memories

Reunion Weekend 2012 is now a memory ... a memory that jogged other memories of pharmacy school in days gone by. In anticipation of this year's reunion, a few VCU School of Pharmacy alumni shared some of their own reminiscences: TOM...
An ever-increasing number of pharmacy students and faculty have or will embark upon medical mission trips in the near future. The VCU School of Pharmacy's outreach initiatives - whether local, national or international and whether daylong or weeks long -...

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