The Faculty Staff Assistance Office (FSAO) is now open on the Boston University Medical Campus. FSAO provides University employees and their family members with free and confidential counseling and referrals for personal or work-related issues. Services are provided by the FSAO director, Bonnie Jean Teitleman and by Karen Brouhard, both of whom are licensed behavioral […]
Would you like to make your presentations more effective? BUMC Toastmasters is offering a free seminar with actress and coach Amanda Good Hennessey to address common issues when making presentations. This seminar is open to everyone on the Medical Campus, you do not need to be a member of Toastmasters to attend. During this seminar […]
GSDM Professor and Director of Oral Biology Research Dr. Philip Trackman’s laboratory has taken their research on the tumor suppressor activity of the lysyl oxidase propeptide, LOX-PP, one step further, showing that LOX-PP could have potential as a therapeutic. In a paper published in early February by PLoS One, researchers show, “that the recombinant protein […]
The Boston University Medical Campus opened new Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) at a ‘green’ ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 16 on the first level of the 710 Albany Street parking garage. The four fueling stations offer electricity for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, which are more environmentally conscious alternatives to gas. A brief speaking […]
Carl Elliott, author of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, is the featured speaker at the Second Annual Cathy Shine Lecture and will present “The Dark Side of Research: Exploitation in Clinical Trials.”
Elliott’s research offers surprising examples of the influence of market forces on medicine. His studies of clinical trials reveal what physicians may not know — from a university’s refusal to investigate a student’s death to the source of research subjects recruited by commercial companies. A physician and bioethicist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Elliott is also respected as a courageous social commentator, with articles like “Guinea Pigging” in the New Yorker.
Last fall, Karen Antman, MD, Provost, BU Medical Campus, and Dean, BUSM, requested submissions from the Medical Campus community for images derived from science that would be displayed as art throughout the campus. A variety of intricate and striking images rolled out of the laboratories of the campus scientists. Faculty members, postdocs and students all […]
Over 1 million cases of colon cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year resulting in approximately 600,000 deaths annually. Disease-causing mutations in the KRAS gene are found in over half of these cases. In the United States, colon cancer patients are routinely genotyped for KRAS gene mutations and those with mutations are excluded from receiving novel […]
Sheede Khalil DMD ’12 was presented with the American College of Dentists (ACD) Senior Student Award at a luncheon held on Saturday, January 28, at Yankee Dental Congress 37. Khalil was selected because of her outstanding achievements in academics, leadership, and initiative. Khalil came to GSDM as a technical assistant in the lab of Associate […]
SAVE THE DATE: Medical Campus Education Day, May 23 BUMC faculty, fellows, residents, students and staff are invited to submit proposals for workshops and abstracts of ongoing or completed education projects. Learn new teaching skills and knowledge of education scholarship by attending workshops, viewing posters and hearing presentations about educational innovation, research and scholarship. John […]
n Catharine MacKinnon’s 1993 treatise Only Words, the feminist scholar writes that “the law of equality and the law of freedom of speech are on a collision course in this country.”
This semester, students at the School of Public Health are examining that collision through an unusual lens—not through the study of law or human rights, but through a lesson in hard-core pornography.