August 17, 1999 Gateway Providing First-Year Rooms with Computers Counseling for Adults Thinking About Returning to School Available Through August 20

• Southern Campus (Ironton) Open House from 2 to 6 p.m. in the Collins Center. The Open House will provide potential students an opportunity to learn more about the educational opportunities at Ohio University Southern Campus. The Open House will include campus tours, information concerning the various degree programs available at OUSC, and general admissions and financial aid information. Contact Kim Lawson at lawsonk@ohio.edu, or 740-533-4612 for more information.
  
  
• For more, please visit the online Calendar of Events.

• Lot #120 (Grover/Porter area) will have limited parking beginning August 18
  
  
• Scott Quad occupants, bricks are being replaced in the center courtyard
  
  
• Preview Days: Ohio University's "Open House" for Prospective Students
  
  
• Free Childhood Immunizations Offered by OU-COM
  
  
• 1999 Bobcat Football Season Tickets Still Available
  
  
• Transportation from Athens to Columbus available

Academic Health System Summit to Examine Challenges Facing Medical Education and Practice Health-care authorities from across the nation will meet Aug. 20 at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM) to focus on the important developments and challenges facing American medical schools and health-care systems at the turn of this century. The "Academic Health System Summit," a one-day conference, will bring together these professionals and the Centers for Osteopathic Regional Education (CORE) system leadership to examine crucial educational and clinical practice issues facing academic health centers. The CORE system is OU-COM's statewide educational consortium, consisting of 14 hospitals and four osteopathic medical school affiliates. More than 300 third- and fourth-year osteopathic medical students and nearly 500 interns and residents are currently training in the CORE system, one of the largest educational consortiums in the nation. Medical Education and Practice Skills for the 21st Century" will be the keynote address given by Douglas Wood, D.O., Ph.D., president of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine. Wood is one of 11 speakers who will address those attending the summit. Other topics examined by summit speakers will be primary care, osteopathic research, the global medical community and the role of osteopathic foundations and academic health centers in the next century. The conference will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Irvine Hall, at Ohio University's Athens campus. For more information, please contact Kevin Sanders at (740) 593-0896. For more information, please read the full text of this news release.