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Wellness & Your Health Health Promotion & Prevention GMS - Your Health is Important Graduate Student Support Group Behavioral Health Services Wellbeing Project Resources GMS Wellness Webpage SHS Virtual Workshops Mindfulness Meditation: See Wellness Calendar Insecurities Having Food Insecurity Issues? Place an online order at Our Community Cupboard Having Financial Insecurity Issues? Reach out to Student Financial Services at osfs-gms@bu.edu . Academic Updates Registration & Compliance Waiver for GMS students due to COVID-19. See Fall Registration Wellness Opportunities Community Yoga each Wednesday - Virtual on Zoom - See Wellness Calendar For other wellness events see Wellness Calendar Questions / Concerns Sign up to chat with... More

Coronavirus Information
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FitPass Classes (cancelled 3/16-4/13)
From: Durant, Katherine Mary <durantkd@bu.edu> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 3:12 PM Subject: FitPass Classes Cancelled March 16-April 13th Dear FitPass Participants; In keeping with the guidance of the BU COVID-19 response concerning transmission of disease and social distancing, FitRec will be closed for personal fitness and recreation from March 16 until April 13. Additionally: All recreation programs and activities that cannot be offered online will be cancelled during this period. All FitPass Classes at the Charles River and Medical Campuses are cancelled during this period. We understand that recreation and physical activity is a source of stress relief and wellbeing for many in our... More
MD or PhD – Which is Right for Me? – February 27, 2020
GMS and BU MAPS Host Panel Discussion On Choosing an MD or PhD Monday, March 2, 2020 Aura Flores-Canelas (Boston University Sargent College ‘20) The Initiative for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at GMS partnered with BU MAPS, the Minority Association for Pre-Health Students, for a panel discussion on Thursday, February 27th. With four panelists in total, the panel consisted of medical students Aliyah Gaines and Jacob Hernandez, alongside PhD candidate Josiane Fofana, and MD/PhD candidate Chinaemere Igwebuike. All the panelists shared the path they took that led them to BU, including the difficulties they faced along the way. Dr. Fadie Coleman, More

Fuller Gym Closed
The Fuller gym will be closed indefinitely due to the Coronavirus. Please continue to check the BUMC COVID-19 webpage and well as GMS events page for up to date information of student activities
New BUSM and SPH Student Activities Center
Now Open! New BUSM and SPH Student Activities Center Location: Evans Building, Basement (adjacent to the SPH Auditoria)
Shoumita Dasgupta Receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Egypt
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2020/03/03/dr-shoumita-dasgupta-receives-fulbright-specialist-award/
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the following MD/PhD students who have received the NOA for their F30 proposal: Kristy Abo PI: Dr. Andrew Wilson MTM program David Swain PI: Dr. Haiyan Gong Anatomy and Neurobiology Katelyn Trecartin PI: Dr. Douglas Rosene Anatomy and Neurobiology Best wishes to the other students who have sent in applications! BU MD/PhD Program official Twitter account
Introducing Peabody Hall – Graduate Student Living in a Dormitory Setting at BU’s Fenway Campus
For 2018 Fall Semester occupancy, the Office of Rental Property Management is pleased to introduce Peabody Hall, a graduate student dormitory that is located at Boston University’s future Fenway Campus (current Wheelock College campus). Within a 15 minute walk from the center of the Charles River Campus and served by BU shuttle buses on a scheduled basis, Peabody Hall will offer BU graduate students furnished dormitory-style, single-occupancy rooms with shared kitchens and bathrooms ranging from $675-$875 per month. Located at the doorstep of Boston’s Emerald Necklace and Longwood Riverway area, Peabody Hall is close to public transit at the Longwood Green Line... More
BU Researchers Identify Biomarkers in Carriers of Huntington’s disease gene
The researchers at Boston University School of Medicine found biomarkers... More