Genetic Counseling Receives New Grant to Promote Diversity
On this year’s Genetic Counselor Awareness Day, Boston University School of Medicine’s MS Genetic Counseling Program (BUGCP) is announcing two exciting new initiatives to continue enhancing the training and expertise within the field of genetic counseling. For the 2021-2022 admissions cycle, BUGCP will offer enrollment in a dual degree MS MPH program with the School […]
Student Affairs Raffle Winners
Congratulations to the students who won our recent Student Affairs raffle! The following students received gift cards to Chequers Cafe/Peet’s Coffee: Qiuyang Zhang Fatemeh Hooshmand Yuehan Li Keven Cheung Stacy Jankowski Karina Franca Claudia Scialdone Gabriel Chavez Kamran Khan Thank you to everyone who came by our GMS office from 10/13 – 10/22 to visit […]
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 […]
C3 Community Chats
Our Community Catalyst Center is hosting various community chats throughout the rest of the fall semester! These are informal social events to allow GMS students to get to know peers with similar backgrounds and experiences. Each of our five affinity groups, gSOC (students of color), gFIRST (first-generation students), gMAV (military and veteran students), gPLUS (LGBTQIA+ […]
Learning Community on Inclusive STEM Teaching
The CTL and PDPA invite graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to join a Learning Community on inclusive teaching in STEM courses. The Learning Community will have a synchronous and asynchronous component: participants will meet weekly over Zoom on Thursday mornings from 9:30-11 am during October and November to build on their asynchronous participation in the Inclusive STEM […]
Additional Places to Eat on the Medical Campus
As the weather turns colder, please remember that eating and drinking is permitted only in designated areas, but not in public spaces such as the Instructional (L) Building Lobby, the library or classrooms. Designated areas (New areas are in blue text): Eating outdoors remains the safest option. An individual office is also safe-please shut your door and eat alone. Chequers […]
Dollar$ and $ense: October 2021
2021-22 COA Increase Appeal Process – Now Open! Student Financial Services has begun reviewing Cost of Attendance (COA) Increase appeals for the 2021-22 academic year. You can view the information about the appeal process, qualifying expenses that can be considered, and access the 2021-22 Cost of Attendance Increase Request form on our website. Please keep in mind these general reminders […]
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, […]
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 […]
Medical Campus Study Space Finder
For students on the Medical Campus looking to find study space, there is an application and mobile-friendly website that displays rooms available for study in real time. Students may look for rooms in a specific building, date, time and room type (group study or individual). Students can control what they want to view, add rooms […]