The Museum of Osteopathic Medicine^SM, located on the A.T. Still University (ATSU) campus, announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense. More than 1,800 museums across America will offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families beginning Memorial Day through Labor Day 2013. Leadership support has been provided by MetLife Foundation through Blue Star Families. Read more here.

 A.T. Still University’s Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine is holding the 2^nd annual Pencil Drive to benefit the Schuyler County Title One program.

Donate your old school supplies to help students finish out the school year with basic items like pencils, glue, index cards, etc. Collection bins will be available in the Centennial Commons until May 25.

Last year the Biomedical Sciences Club collected 718 pencils, 1,748 sheets of colored paper, 172 markers, and many other items.

A.T. Still University’s Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (ATSU-KCOM) held its annual commencement ceremony on May 18, 2013. The Class of 2013 is ATSU-KCOM’s 177^th graduating class.

The ceremony was held on Truman State University’s campus, preceded by a Military Commissioning Ceremony. This year, 176 students graduated with a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree and seven with a Master of Biomedical Sciences degree. The class represented 30 states and seven countries.

J.D. Polk, DO, MS, MMM, CPE, FACOEP, ’93, was commencement speaker. Dr. Polk serves as principal deputy assistant secretary for health affairs and deputy chief medical officer for the Department of Homeland Security.

The University Student Association (USA) is seeking design ideas to revive the A.T. Still University  school mascot, the “Ram of Reason”.  Two contests will be held, one to choose the design of the new ram, and the other to name the new mascot.

Rules:

• The contest is open to all ATSU students, faculty and staff  (Missouri, Arizona, and Online).

• The mascot must remain a ram.

• All art work must be completely original.

• Hand-drawn or computer-generated images are both acceptable as long as the work is

completely original. (If hand-drawn, please scan and submit in a file with minimum 300 dpi.)

• All rights to the image must be signed over to A.T. Still University. The University reserves

the right to alter the design.

• The winner of the design contest will receive a prize package that promises to make it worth the effort plus receive the first apparel item with the ATSU mascot.

• Submissions must be uploaded to the ATSU Mascot website at: https://sites.google.com/a/atsu.edu/mascot/

• Deadline for submission: Friday, May 31, 2013

• Design voting: June 3-7, 2013

• Naming voting: June 10-14, 2013

• Winning design and name will be announced by July 1, 2013.

Designs will be compiled by the University Student Association, and voting will be open to the ATSU community.  Along with a vote for the design, you will be asked to submit a name for the new mascot.

Once a design is chosen, the best names will be compiled, and voting will once again be opened up. The winning design and name will be submitted to ATSU administration for final approval.

Please contact Ben Meyer with any questions or submissions at bcmeyer@atsu.edu.

The 2013 ATSU-KCOM graduation will be available via live streaming video on Saturday, May 18,  at 10 a.m., Missouri time. Feel free to share the link http://live.atsu.edu with those who are unable to attend. It will be available for viewing after the event, as well.