GMS Distinguished Alumni Awardee Spotlight: Jennifer Luebke, PhD’90
Waterhouse Professor and Chair of Anatomy & Neurobiology Jennifer Luebke, PhD, has served in many roles at BU, including as principal investigator of the Laboratory of Cellular Neurobiology since 1996, vice-chair of anatomy & neurobiology, and director of the PhD and Vesalius Master’s Programs in Anatomy & Neurobiology. She has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Boston University Faculty Council, including as chair of the Sustainability Committee, and she was chair of the Supply Chain & Waste Working Group of BU’s Climate Action Plan Taskforce. She also has served on BU’s Council Committee on Graduate Academic Programs and... More
GMS Distinguished Alumni Awardee Spotlight: Christopher Andry, MPhil, PhD’94
Christopher D. Andry, MPhil, PhD, serves as chief, pathology & laboratory medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC), and chair, pathology & laboratory medicine at Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and professor of pathology & laboratory medicine and family medicine. Andry’s career at BMC and BU has spanned more than 40 years, during which time he has demonstrated a deep-rooted commitment to and passion for the mission of the BMC Health System, the University and Medical Campus and the Boston community at large. He is dedicated to education and the creation of opportunities for students, faculty and staff who have been... More
Gear-Up Week Brings Community Connection, Study Skills, Furry Friends and More!
The Community Catalyst Center hosted its third-annual "Gear-Up Week" from Sept. 16 to 20. The week's schedule offered six different events and opportunity for students to continue building community on campus, learn about how best to navigate academically and personally at GMS, pick up some brand-new swag and enjoy opportunities for food and connection. Read a recap of the week below: Thriving, Not Just Surviving, in Graduate School: A Real-World Guide to Effective Studying The first day of Gear-Up Week kicked off on Sept. 16 with an academic development seminar hosted by Aaron Young, PhD. Dr. Young is the assistant director of the Master's in... More
GMS and SPH Host 2024 New Student Welcome BBQ on Talbot Green
Graduate Medical Sciences and the School of Public Health co-hosted a New Student Welcome BBQ on Sept. 5. Hosted on Talbot Green, the event brought students together for a fun social event with music, lawn games, and BBQ food provided by Catering on the Charles. Check out a full slideshow from the BBQ above! Click here for a full calendar of GMS events happening this semester.
Welcome to Fall 2024 at Graduate Medical Sciences!
The Fall 2024 semester has officially begun at Graduate Medical Sciences! This semester, we are thrilled to welcome 469 new students to GMS, including 422 master’s students and 47 PhD students. These students represent 16 master’s programs and five PhD programs. The cohort comes from 34 different countries and 38 states. They attended 223 undergraduate institutions. The majority of our new GMS students arrived to campus on Friday, Aug. 30 for a full day of Orientation activities, where they learned more about GMS and other campus resources, met leaders from across the Medical Campus and connected with peers, faculty and administrators in... More
SFS Updates and Special Advance for Living Expenses
A message from Student Financial Services regarding updates and special advances for living expenses: Hello Graduate Medical Sciences Students, We hope you’re well. We wanted to share information with you about the process to request living expenses for the start of your academic year. As you are likely aware, the U.S. Department of Education delayed the delivery of the 2024-2025 FAFSA. Because of this issue and our transition to MyBU Student, financial aid awards have been subsequently delayed for both federal and private loan borrowers. Many of you rely on financial aid to cover your out of pocket living expenses. To ensure that... More
PA White Coat Ceremony Welcomes 22 Students to the Class of 2027
Now donning their white coats, the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Class of 2027 has officially entered the study and professional practice of medicine. The cohort’s 22 students celebrated their White Coat Ceremony surrounded by faculty, staff, family and friends on Friday, Aug. 9, in Hiebert Lounge. The students comprise the program’s 11th class and will one day join more than 200 PA alumni who have graduated since 2016. The annual ceremony marks the beginning of the 114.5 credit-hour professional-degree program, which spans over 34 months. For the next 18 months, the incoming PA class and first-year medical... More
STaRS Scholars Present at 2024 GMS Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
The 2024 Summer Training as Research Scholars (STaRS) cohort concluded their 10-week internships at the Graduate Medical Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, held in Hiebert Lounge on Aug. 6. The symposium began with oral research presentations by the STaRS scholars, followed by an afternoon poster session that included STaRS and research volunteer students. The 2024 STaRS Scholars are: Danesha Derima (University of the Virgin Islands) Katherine Lopez (Williams College) Anya Ganesh (McGill University) Joaquin Martinez (Boston University) James Gonzalez Inocente (Boston University) Jenny Medina (University of California, Irvine) Caslie Jean-Francois (The College of New Jersey) Nicolás Santamaría Hopkins (Wheaton College, Massachusetts) Ivy Lin (Boston University) Joseph Vann (Bates College) This year’s presenting volunteer... More
Forty-seven Students Join the MS in Oral Health Sciences Class of 2025
The Master of Science in Oral Health Sciences (OHS) program welcomed 47 new students to its Class of 2025 during its Orientation event on Thursday, August 1. This year's class is represented by students from 13 different states, including 12 from Massachusetts and six each from California and New York. Six students are joining the cohort from Canada, with another three from China, the Philippines and South Korea. Twenty-five students in the incoming cohort graduated with undergraduate degrees in biology, with the remaining students graduating in other-science majors. The OHS program at Graduate Medical Sciences is uniquely positioned to set its students... More
GMS Faculty Spotlight: Esther Bullitt, PhD
Esther Bullitt, PhD, is a professor of pharmacology, physiology & biophysics at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She is the director of both the biophysics and physiology graduate programs within Graduate Medical Sciences. Dr. Bullitt was recently awarded a Shared Instrumentation Grant by the National Institutes of Health, which helped to fund BU’s new Cryo-EM Core Facility. The facility celebrated the “First Light” of its Glacios-2 cryogenic electron microscope (cryo-EM) in April 2024. The instrumentation allows investigators to determine structures of macromolecules at near-atomic resolution. Graduate Medical Sciences spoke to Dr. Bullitt about her career at BU, the Shared... More