C3 gFIRST Mentor Spotlights for First Gen Week

In honor of celebrating national First-Generation College student day, BU's Graduate Medical Sciences Community Catalyst Center (C3) has peer mentor spotlights to highlight our first-generation student mentors and all of their contributions to the GMS community and their peers. Please click below to read more about our mentors Matt, Elissa and Taylor and learn about how to connect with them at the next upcoming C3 gFirst events! C3 gFIRST Mentor Spotlight Boston University Graduate Medical Sciences Community Catalyst Center (C3) is proud to support their peer mentors for the First Generation Group (gFirst). Our peer mentors are proud to share their diverse and unique... More

GMS Students Receive Funding For Medical Device Designs

MInT, or the Medical Innovation and Technology entrepreneurship program, launched in spring 2021 thanks to innovation-minded graduate students from Graduate Medical Sciences at BUSM, College of Engineering, School of Public Health and Questrom School of Business. The goal of MInT is to empower early-career scientists with hands-on medical innovation design experience. Four teams of BU students pitched designs that won funding awards totaling approximately $12,000 from sponsors of MInT, including Innovate@BU/The BUild Lab and the Technology Development Office. The MInT founding team was led by Graduate Medical School PhD student Elissa Everton (Molecular & Translational Medicine) and MD/PhD student Shen Ning (Graduate Program for Neuroscience), More

Celebration and Recognition for the Class of 2020

Nearly 18 months after they completed their studies, members of BUSM’s MD, PhD and Master’s programs from the Class of 2020 were invited back to the Medical Campus to celebrate their accomplishments at a recognition event on Saturday, Oct. 2. The event coincides with BUSM Alumni Weekend and an All-University Commencement which was held Sunday, Oct. 3. “You graduated at what was, and still is, the most challenging time in the medical sciences in the last century. You did not get to hear the cheers of your family and friends as we celebrated your achievements,” said Karen Antman, MD, BUMC Provost... More

Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month

September 15 officially marks the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month! We are proud to support and uplift our Hispanic and Latinx community at Graduate Medical Sciences. If you know of an event or resource you’d like added to this list, please email Sara Frazier.  Events   City Hall Lighting Ceremony for Hispanic Heritage Month Wednesday, September 15 | 6-8 p.m. “Join the City of Boston's Latinx Employee Resource Group for a virtual and in-person celebration to kick off Hispanic Heritage Month.” Hispanic Star Boston Kickoff Reception Thursday, September 23 | 6:30-9:30 p.m. “Join Hispanic Star Boston as we kickoff the Hispanic Heritage Month for an evening of networking... More

Welcome to GMS | Fall 2021

Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD Associate Provost and Associate Dean ad interim Welcome to the GMS community! It is a new academic year and a new beginning as our campus opens again to incoming and returning students. The faculty and staff are delighted to welcome your energy, enthusiasm and new ideas into the classrooms, laboratories and clinics. It is immensely satisfying to see the campus active and busy again. Even so, we are ever mindful of the toll of the last year and a half, with loved ones lost, others struggling with long COVID-19 and many who juggled competing responsibilities from their living rooms... More

C3 Community Catalyst Center Launches!

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 officially launches this week. The center’s goal is to foster holistic success for the diverse GMS student community by providing helpful resources, events, workshops and community chats. “As we welcome both incoming and returning students back to campus for the fall, we are excited to offer this additional support to our students,” said Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD, ad interim Associate Provost and Dean of GMS. Students of all backgrounds are... More

Physician Assistant Graduation Ceremony Sends 30 Graduates into the Field

“When I look out at all of you, that word that comes to mind is ‘grit,’ said Program Director Susan White, MD, as she opened the small, in-person graduation ceremony for the Physician Assistant Program, held Aug. 12 in Hiebert Lounge. “As a class, you’ve shown a tremendous amount of perseverance and strength.” The event marked the end a two-and-a-half-year journey through an intensive course of study, including an integrated pathophysiology and pharmacology course alongside second-year medical students. In addition to classroom work, students also completed 14 months of clinical rotations and a thesis project. Last year, 2020 graduate Jane Chow, MS, More

22 STaRS Share Their Summer Research

The Summer Training as Research Scholars (STaRS) Program concluded its 10-week research experience with a virtual symposium held Aug. 5. Overseen by Graduate Medical Sciences (GMS), the STaRS Program is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH. It has trained over 150 scholars and received more than 3,000 applications since its inception. Trainees work with faculty, fellow students and postdoctoral associates on cutting-edge biomedical research projects, build powerful and lasting relationships and set a course for college and career success. Each week the scholars worked alongside their mentors realizing virtual projects, presenting their research at meetings and attending... More

Healthcare Emergency Management Program Trains COVID-19 Response Workforce

Kevin “Kip” Thomas, MBA, PhD, Program Director for the MS in Healthcare Emergency Management, had been working as Executive Secretary of Homeland Security when he completed a vulnerability assessment for Washington D.C. and certified the national labs. That assessment led him to notice a void in the healthcare side of emergency management, and he realized the best way to address this was through education. While working for the Pentagon, Thomas met Peter Bergethon, MD, Head of the Laboratory of Intelligence Modeling and Neurophysics at BUSM, and Mark Moss, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at a meeting on protecting health... More

Celebrating Juneteenth: The History Behind Freedom Day

Juneteenth, traditionally observed on June 19, marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in America were told they were free. On this date slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Also frequently referred to as Freedom Day, Juneteenth is already celebrated in most states. This is the first year it is an official holiday in the state of Massachusetts. As of this year, Boston University now recognizes Juneteenth as an official holiday as part of ongoing efforts to become more diverse, equitable... More