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VOICE Events Fall 2011
Cornell University Chapter
September 2011
-Hispanic
Heritage Month Movie Night: members cooked and ate Hispanic themed food
and watched the movie “Raising Victor Vargas”.
-Fall Lecture with Lisa Greenhill: Lisa gave a presentation on
“The Diversity We Don’t Talk About” discussing: Diversity of white
people and Rankism”.
October 2011
-SCAVMA/VOICE
Halloween Social: Halloween themed baked goods were served (baked by
members of VOICE and the community at large) and a scary movie “The Eye”
was shown.
November 2011
-ZUMBA
with Carol Gary: A Latin American inspired aerobics routine was taught
by Cornell’s financial aid advisor Carol Gary who is also a fitness
instructor. December 2011
-Bake
Sale with The Christian Veterinary Fellowship/Christmas ornament sale
with AAHA to Sponsor Local Tompkins County Children through the Elves
Program: Through these fundraising means we raised enough money to
sponsor 6 local needy children during the holiday season (an approximate
monetary value of $750).
These funds covered toys, clothes, and food gift cards for the children
that would otherwise be without during the holiday season.
Ohio State University
-Orientation Club presentation 9/26/11: As a part of orientation process
for class of 2015, some of the organizations such as IPC or OTS gave a
brief presentation on the goal and purpose of each club and VOICE was
able to participate in it to create interest.
-Lunch Lecture "Health Literacy: It's Time to Take It Seriously!" by
Sandra Cornett, RN, PhD
11/2/11.VOICE invited a
guest speaker Dr. Sandra Cornett to talk to students about illiteracy in
pet owners/clients. She is the director of OSU/AHEC Clear Health
Communication Program and she primarily works with human medicine but
she was able to relate illiteracy issues seen in human medicine (such as
patients not understanding the directions for their medication and not
being able to read and comprehend all the forms they sign etc.) and
incorporate into veterinary medicine as well. She was very great at
helping the students understand the seriousness of this issue and taught
us some skills that we can use in order to better serve our client thus
giving the best medical treatments to the animals they own. I talked to
the professor who's in charge of our Professional Development courses
and now we are having Dr. Cornett as a permanent guest lecturer for the
curriculum thanks to us!
Purdue University Chapter
Purdue VOICE is hosting their annual Melting Pot September 14th.
Students /faculty are invited to cook and bake food that is meaningful
to their heritage. Attendees are also encouraged to make something
learned from an international friend/relative. Dancing entertainment by
the campus Latin Ballroom Dance Club will follow!
Texas A&M University
The Texas A&M VOICE chapter held a joint "Sushi Night" in conjunction
with our TAMU diversity club in October that introduced vet students to
the art and etiquette of sushi making and eating and also provided some
history about the culture in which sushi originated from.
University of Georgia Chapter
-Co-hosting a lunch talk with LGVMA that will bring Shannon Bond to the
University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine on Wednesday,
September 28th from 11Am to 12:30PM. Lunch will be provided for
students attending. Speaker Shannon Bond will be presenting "No offense
defense" highlighting how to navigate difficult situations with clients
either verbally or, if necessary, physically without sacrificing
professionalism.
-Shannon Bond is a counselor and family/child advocate for HEROES Great
and Small Inc. as well as an adjunct instructor at Berry College. She
graduated from Berry (c1989) with a degree in Art and Psychology. She
has taught Women's Self Defense at Berry for at least 10 years. She has
also been an integral part of creating and teaching Safety Awareness For
Everyone (SAFE); an abuse prevention program taught through public
school systems in Northwest Georgia. Most recently, Shannon has
published a book Good Things Can’t Stop the Bad Things.
Contact Taryn McDonald at
tarynmcd@uga.edu
for more details.
University of Missouri
-On December the 7th at 7 pm the MU Voice Chapter co-hosted an Africa
Night at our campus along with another organization, South Africa Summer
Program (SASP). SASP is comprised of MU vet students that travel to
South Africa every summer and learn more about the veterinary industry
and get to experience exotic/wild game veterinary medicine firsthand. We
had two speakers for the evening: Dr. Luise King and Dr. Benford
Mafuvadze. Dr. King is a South African native and current MU College of
Veterinary Medicine PhD candidate; she spoke on her time volunteering
and observing at Kruger National Park. Dr. Mafuvadze served as an
instructor and chair at the University of Zimbabwe for several years and
is also pursuing his PhD at the MU CVM. He lectured on what veterinary
work was like in a developing country serving on an ambulatory clinic in
a poor, rural community.
Their insights and photos were incredibly interesting and helped
students planning on going to South Africa in envisioning wild game
medicine and the different struggles of the profession in that region of
Africa. Lastly, a second year student, Jessica Baldwin, presented on her
experience on the South Africa trip this past summer. She shared
anecdotes on everything from making sure the lion is properly
anesthetized to how to scramble after you reverse a rhinoceros! Her
stories and experiences were exceptionally entertaining. VOICE members
helped cook up an authentic African meal including Groundnut Stew,
Couscous with Parsley and Lemon, as well as Rooibos Tea and Coconut Pie.
The meal and presentation were a hit! It was a fun evening.
University of Pennsylvania Chapter
Organized a lunch talk bringing Dr. Ted Mashima from the AAVMC to Penn
Vet. Dr. Mashima’s talk
took place on Wednesday, Sept. 7th at noon. Lunch was provided to
students attending. Dr. Mashima gave an exciting presentation on the
"Vast Options and Opportunities in Veterinary Medicine," encouraging
students to follow their passions and think outside the box in creating
their careers. Ted Mashima
is Associate Executive Director for Academic and Research Affairs for
the AACMC and also the co-editor of The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes.
VOICE Events Spring 2012
Cornell University
February:
-African American History Month Movie Night: an African American themed
movie will be shown and soul food cooked by members will be served.
-Outreach program at Southside Community Center: We will be educating
grammar school children about the veterinary profession by teaching them
how to do a proper physical exam on animals and the differences between
two pets used in the program (i.e dachsund and ferret).
This is done with Cornell’s Vet Education Club for several
Fridays during the spring semester and will span the months of February
and March
March:
-ZUMBA: A Latin American inspired aerobics routine taught by our
financial aid advisor who is also a fitness instructor.
20 VOICE members will be able to take part in this event was
successfully done once in the fall.
-Spring
Lecture: lecturer TBD
April:
-A “Gaypril” event with the Homophiliacs (Rocky Horror Picture Show).
-Passover Event: passover themed food cooked by members will be served,
and a movie that celebrates/recognizes Passover will be showed.
-Annual Kiss the Cow Event: members of the veterinary community will get
to vote for one professor within the college to kiss our very own Stella
the cow. People will vote
by donating money towards each individual professor.
The professor who raises the most money has to kiss our lovely
Stella. All donations will
be put towards disaster relief or to some other charity.
May:
-Asian-Pacific Islander Heritage Month Movie Night: Asian-pacific
islander themed food cooked by members will be served and an
appropriately themed movie will be shown.
University of Georgia
-On Feb 20, 2012 Lisa Greenhill will give her lecture titled “The
Diversity We Don’t Talk About.” It's about class and the concept of
rankism. It will be a lunch meeting and open to the entire school.
University of Pennsylvania
-On January 24, 2012 at 12pm, VOICE will be hosting a lunch talk with
Dr. Michael Goldschmidt titled:
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