{"id":98262,"date":"2021-10-20T16:40:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T20:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=98262"},"modified":"2021-10-20T16:47:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T20:47:52","slug":"gms-launches-community-catalyst-center-to-enrich-graduate-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2021\/10\/20\/gms-launches-community-catalyst-center-to-enrich-graduate-education\/","title":{"rendered":"GMS Launches Community Catalyst Center to Enrich Graduate Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2021\/10\/C3-Horizontal-e1634761810913.png\" alt=\"Community Catalyst Center logo and icons\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-98265\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Graduate Medical Sciences believes that graduate education is enriched by diversity and a strong sense of community among peers. This philosophy sparked the idea for the Graduate Medical Sciences Community Catalyst Center (C3), which launched in August 2021. The Center\u2019s goal is to foster holistic success for the diverse GMS student community by providing helpful resources, events, workshops and community chats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to offer this additional support to our students,\u201d said Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD, <em>ad interim<\/em> Associate Provost and Dean of GMS.<\/p>\n<p>Students of all backgrounds are encouraged to participate in C3 programming. The center\u2019s five affinity groups are gSOC (students of color), gFIRST (first-generation students) gMAV (military-affiliated and veteran students), gPLUS (LGBTQIA+ students) and gGLOBAL (international students).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so proud of the diverse perspectives of our community and are eager to make sure that all students are comfortable and confident during graduate school, so they feel like an integral part of the GMS community,\u201d said Theresa A. Davies, PhD, director of Oral Health Sciences and assistant dean of GMS Master\u2019s Programs.<\/p>\n<p>Past events sponsored by the center include walking tours of popular Boston neighborhoods, workshops on acclimating to GMS and Boston and \u201ccommunity chat\u201d social events for each of the affinity groups.<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"mailto:c3center@bu.edu\">c3center@bu.edu<\/a> \u00a0for more details about C3 mentorship and any questions about the Center\u2019s programming and resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of the Community Catalyst Center (C3) is to foster holistic success for the diverse GMS student community by providing helpful resources, events, workshops and community chats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98262"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98268,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98262\/revisions\/98268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}