On April 28, 1926, fifteen premedical students at the University of Alabama met with Dr. Jack Montgomery, premedical advisor and professor of organic chemistry, to formalize the organization of a new premedical honor society. Baylor University, Sanford University, The University of Texas, and the University of South Carolina established chapters in 1928/29. At the first national convention at the University of Alabama on April 18, 1930, ten members representing five chapters and one petitioning group were in attendance. From these modest beginnings, Alpha Epsilon Delta has today become the world's largest Honor Society exclusively serving premedical education, with a membership exceeding 140,000 in 185 chapters.
The mission of the Society is to encourage and recognize excellence in premedical scholarship; to stimulate an appreciation of the importance of premedical education; to promote communication between medical and premedical students and educators; to provide a forum for students with common interests; and to use its resources to benefit health organizations, charities and the community.
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Current Announcements
CONGRATULATIONS to the 2009-2010 Pledge Class!
First meeting/ice cream social for members and pledges on Thursday, September 10th at 8:00pm in Union Room 3413. Come meet your Big/Little!
If you missed a meeting, find out what you missed under Meeting Notes!
Meetings this year will be held on Thursdays at 8:00 pm in room 3413 in the Union.
If you are already an AED member, please make sure you have joined the new AED listserv for this year. Visit the UNC listserv website.Join the aed_09-10 listserv.
What is Alpha Epsilon Delta?
AED, Alpha Epsilon Delta, is UNC's pre-health honor society. Our goal is to provide our members and pledges with valuable resources and experiences that help guide them on their way to professional careers in health care. Most of our members are pre-med, but we have other members interested in all areas of the health care industry.
AED is also a service fraternity. Our members perform a minimum of 12 hours of service each semester. In the process we get to know each other better and give back to our community. The variety of service projects we offer is also an exciting facet of our organization. Our members participate in projects such as Habitat for Humanity, Hearts on Franklin 5K, as well as blood drives for various campus affiliated medical services.
Our members also get to know each other very well throughout the semesters. We study, go dancing, have dinners and coffees, and do a host of other things together. We also get to know more about health care and medical fields through out guest speakers whom we invite on a regular basis. AED also hosts a medical school panel every year. The panel is made up of the deans from the four North Carolina medical schools, UNC, ECU, Wake Forest, and Duke. This panel gives us an opportunity to ask questions and get both general and specific information on each of these programs. We also hold an annual AED Health Fair.
AED has a lot more to offer, and we invite you to come visit us and see what we are all about first hand. now on, for info or questions about AED, email one of the officers. For contact information, see our Contact page. We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Thursday 9/10 - First Meeting - 8pm, Rm 3413 Union
Thursday 9/17 - Meeting at 8pm, Rm 3413 Union Come listen to Dr. Hilger go over the premed process.
Monday 9/28 - Movie and pizza night at 7pm, Dey 209.
Thursday 10/1 - Meeting at 8pm, Rm 3413 Union VCOM will give presentation on osteopathic medicine.
Saturday 10/10 - Tailgate
Thursday 10/15 - Meeting at 8pm, Rm 3413 Union Global Brigades will talk about opportunities to do medical missions abroad during Spring Break and the Summer.
Okay, nothing against the UNC portal, but that site has certain...issues. First off, it is not very 'aesthetically pleasing'. It is also tough to post pictures in any kind of logical fashion. Among others, there is also the calendar issue, and the lack of the ability of leave comments or save old announcements.
Ergo, we created a new site. Hopefully this one will prove to be actually interesting to visit, informational, and good for the overall well-being of AED at Carolina. Don't hesitate to leave comments, but leave your name if you don't mind, or I suppose Anonymous comments work--although all comments will have to be approved by an administrator.
We will still use the old site for some things, ie. Document hosting et al.
