Student Achievement Program of Events
Program of Events:
Coffee and pastries available at 8:30 a.m. Please pick up badges and abstract booklet at the front of the Heibert lounge from our student hosts. Please put up your poster before 9:00 a.m.
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Welcoming addresses by Professor Shelley J. Russek (Vice-President, Russek Foundation), Professor Linda Hyman (Associate Provost, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences), Dr. Karen Antman (Dean of BUSM), and current President of the Graduate Medical Sciences Student Organization.
9:30-10:45 a.m.
Henry I. Russek Keynote Lecture “How Does BRCA1 Suppress the Development of Breast and Ovarian Cancer?” by Dr. David M. Livingston, Deputy Director, Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Institute; Chief, Charles A. Dana Division of Human Cancer Genetics, and Emil Frei Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
10:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Viewing of posters presented by graduate students enrolled in the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences (Buffet luncheon available at 11:30 a.m.)
Award winners (First, Second, and Third) please get your lunch and bring to the student lounge (14th floor L-Bldg). You will be having lunch with our Keynote Speaker & Visiting Professor Dr. David Livingston.
1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
Slide presentations by the 2014 Henry I. Russek Student Achievement First Prize Recipients. (Each presentation is 10 min. with an additional 5 min. for questions. Student moderators will host the event.)
**30 minute stretch and viewing of posters**
2:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Continued slide presentations by the 2014 Henry I. Russek Student Achievement First Prize Recipients.
4:00 p.m. Award presentations by Shelley J. Russek, Russek Foundation. Photo shoot of our wonderful award winners!