{"id":5447,"date":"2025-10-16T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:53:14","slug":"aus-hosts-annual-pinktober-event-to-support-breast-cancer-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/aus-hosts-annual-pinktober-event-to-support-breast-cancer-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS Hosts Annual Pinktober Event to Support Breast Cancer Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%\">\n\t<iframe src=\"https:\/\/aus.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=17c3b865-6cdb-4498-841e-b39f003a8888&#038;autoplay=false&#038;offerviewer=false&#038;showtitle=false&#038;showbrand=false&#038;captions=false&#038;interactivity=none\" style=\"border: 1px solid #464646; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; box-sizing: border-box;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay\" aria-label=\"Panopto Embedded Video Player\" aria-description=\"2025-10-16-aus-hosts-annual-pinktober-event-to-support-breast-cancer-awareness\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>By Jasmin Johory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SHARJAH &#8212; Promoting awareness, wellness and empowerment in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the American University of Sharjah hosted its annual Pinktober<em> <\/em>event on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event ran from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and featured a range of activities, including fundraising booths and vendors at the CHM and HSB Rotundas, awareness talks in the Main Building\u2019s Lecture Hall B and performing arts exhibits followed by a Pilates for Wellness session in the Arts building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPinktober wasn\u2019t just about fundraising, it was about reminding everyone to prioritize their health,\u201d said Suprabha Vauvegula, a second-semester sophomore. \u201cIt made me realize how awareness events can empower people to take action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local vendors and sponsors such as Linked, Fruffles, Sugarballs, Snow Moon, Sukar and Labatec participated in the event, contributing to fundraising efforts and campus engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe participation of both students and vendors highlights the community\u2019s shared effort to promote awareness,\u201d said Janhvi Duggal, CAS student team activities coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pinktober initiative is part of AUS\u2019s broader commitment to promoting health education and community involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jasmin Johory SHARJAH &#8212; Promoting awareness, wellness and empowerment in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the American University of Sharjah hosted its annual Pinktober event on Oct. 16. The event ran from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and featured a range of activities, including fundraising booths and vendors at the CHM and HSB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,79,84,78,11],"tags":[33,82,17,23,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-5447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-videos","9":"category-news","10":"category-video","11":"category-video-features","12":"category-video-reports","13":"tag-aus","14":"tag-aus-campus","15":"tag-community","16":"tag-lifestyle-health","17":"tag-news","18":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}