Virginia State University News December 1, 2010 Health Services Awarded Breast Cancer Grant The Central Virginia Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation has awarded the VSU Student Health Center a $50,000 grant to fund a year-long series of breast cancer awareness and prevention programs. The project, entitled PEAM (prevention, education, access, and mammogram), will provide breast cancer awareness and mammography services to the VSU campus community and the Petersburg community from January 2011 through December 2011. VSU Peer Educators will play a major role in the execution of the grant. Through creative health education programs, the Student Health Center will emphasize early detection, encourage healthy lifestyles and provide pertinent information and resources to help members of targeted groups gain greater access to screenings in an effort to eliminate a disease that takes many lives each year. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Program Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 404.592.4820 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.