Major renovations to the first floor of Lewis Hall will begin this August. The newly-renovated space will include upgrades to the Brickell Library, a new student lounge area, a new bookstore with café, and renovated administrative offices.

The following Offices will move to Smith-Rogers Hall, located at 358 Mowbray Arch, on July 9, 2010:

• Medical Admissions, Minority Affairs: first floor
• Education, Student Affairs, Faculty Development: second floor
• Registrar, Financial Aid, Student Performance and Evaluation: fourth floor

All phone numbers and email addresses of personnel who are relocating will remain the same.

Doctors at Eastern Virginia Medical School's Strelitz Diabetes Center have been studying weight-loss surgery patients to determine if certain types of fat are more likely to result in the development of negative health factors such as Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Their findings were presented at the American Diabetes Association meeting in Orlando, Fla., June 27.

The study is being conducted in conjunction with Stephen G. Wohlgemuth, MD, medical director of bariatric surgery at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital's Metabolic & Weight Loss Surgery Center and assistant professor of clinical surgery at EVMS.

"The primary goal of the study is to identify important new factors in visceral fat that might explain the link between obesity, diabetes and heart disease," explains Jerry Nadler, MD, director of the EVMS Strelitz Diabetes Center and chair of internal medicine.