Sacramento campus

• Education Building — 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 28-29, and Tuesday, Feb. 3

Bulk orders: Departments or other units are asked to use a special form. Contact Sarah Brodberg by email.

T-SHIRT SALES

Crew neck and V-neck styles, starting at $7, available at:

UC Davis Stores

• Memorial Union
• Pro Shop (ARC)
• Welcome Center
• Downtown

Hang tags: This year's shirts come with tags that are definitely worth reading. Here are some examples:

• Did you know? Each year in the U.S., 55,000 more women than men have a stroke.
• Did you know? Most women do not “know their numbers” for heart disease risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar.

Each message concludes with "Change is possible: Visit womenshearthealth.ucdavis.edu."

And remember: $2 from every sale goes to the UC Davis Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine Program.

No time like the present to start gearing up for the second annual UC Davis Wears Red Day. And, by gearing up, we mean wearing red, of course! Like a special-edition T-shirt with a new design to symbolize the day’s purpose: heart health awareness.

Taehoon Song, a chemical engineering major, and Katie Urban, a history and communication major, model the new UC Davis Wears Red Day T-shirts. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis)

The shirts — crew neck and V-neck — are on sale now at all UC Davis Stores, and on the Sacramento campus, too. See box. Prices start at $7, and $2 from every sale goes to the UC Davis Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine Program.

UC Davis Wears Red Day is Friday, Feb. 6, when everybody is encouraged to come to Hutchison Field for the Battle Heart Disease Fair, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and to be part of a giant formation at noon. About 2,500 people — students, staff, faculty and community members — turned out for last year’s inaugural heart formation.

This year’s event promises to be even more festive, with the Battle Heart Disease Fair outside (instead of The Pavilion). The fair will be set up in tents around the place that’ll be cordoned off for the heart formation. There will be a group Zumba session on the field, too.

Radio station KSFM 102.5 FM plans a live remote from the fair, according to Alejandra Gordillo of Alpha Pi Sigma, the sorority that is presenting the fair for the second year.

Don’t worry about missing lunch: Dining Services will be selling healthy snacks and beverages at a discount. (Or, if you like, wear red to any dining commons on Feb. 6 and get a discount there!)

Sacramento campus students, staff and faculty: Special shuttle service has been set up to the Battle Heart Disease Fair and heart formation. Shuttles are scheduled to depart the X Street bus stop in front of the UC Davis Medical Center at 10:30 and 11:15 a.m. and return following the heart formation.

Battle Heart Disease Fair

The program includes information tables, and a couple of scheduled events:

• 11:30 a.m. — 15 minutes of Zumba!
• 11:45 a.m. — Q&A with Amparo Villablanca, cardiologist, professor and director, Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine Program

Confirmed participants in the fair include three student-run health clinics (Bayanihan, Imani and Tepati), UC Davis Medical Center, Aggie Heart Association, Minority Association of Premedical Students (MAPS), Recognizing Illnesses Very Early and Responding (RIVER), Chican@s/Latin@s in Health Education (CHE), Alpha Phi and Alpha Pi Sigma sororities, Student Nutrition Association, Student Health and Counseling Services’ Health Promotion Department, and the Activities and Recreation Center.

Cocktails & Couture

With February being National Heart Month, UC Davis will promote heart health awareness until the very last day of the month: Saturday, Feb. 28, the date for this year’s edition of The Power of Red: Cocktails & Couture, a benefit event hosted by Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi.

“The Power of Red” comes from the red dresses that will be debuted as this year’s additions to the UC Davis Red Dress Collection. The dresses represent design students’ take on the national symbol for heart health awareness among women (it’s their leading cause of death).

The Power of Red: Cocktails & Couture is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Grand Nave Ballroom of the Sheraton Grand hotel, 1230 J St., Sacramento. Tickets are $250 per person, with proceeds going to the Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine Program and the Department of Design. Sponsorship opportunities are also available. For more information, contact Jean Wigglesworth at Ceremonies and Special Events, (530) 754-2011.

The Department of Design and the Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine Program launched the UC Davis Red Dress project in 2000 with the goal of engaging women across generations in heart health awareness. Students have been adding to the collection every year since.

You can see 18 of the dresses in a winter quarter exhibition, “Red Dress, Design Stories for Heart Health,” at the Design Museum (in Cruess Hall). The museum is open from noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, and runs through March 13.

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