GMS Honors Black History Month 2025

GMS is proud to celebrate Black History Month! This year marks the 49th annual Black History Month since it was federally recognized in 1976. The 2025 theme of Black History Month, “African Americans and Labor,” highlights “the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, […]

Welcome to First-Generation College Celebration Week 2024!

Monday, Nov. 4, marks the beginning of Boston University’s 2024 First-Generation College Celebration Week, which recognizes the success and achievements of BU first-generation students across our campuses. Each year, BU, the Newbury Center and other offices mark the occasion with a week-long celebration program, full of events like workshops, social activities, seminars and networking opportunities. […]

Mark Your Calendars for Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week!

Graduate Medical Sciences and the Community Catalyst Center are thrilled to celebrate the invaluable contributions of our graduate and professional student community during this year’s Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation week!  We have planned a week full of social events, academic and professional development opportunities, food and swag pickups, and more to mark the occasion. […]

C3 Mastering Self-Advocacy in Graduate School Panel Fills INS-401 Classroom

Twenty-five Graduate Medical Sciences community members attended the Community Catalyst Center’s “Mastering Self-Advocacy in Graduate School” event, almost filling the INS-401 classroom space. Part-presentation and part-panel, the event was designed to discuss tips for navigating the graduate school experience by communicating effectively, negotiating confidently, being mindful of mental health and wellbeing and ultimately, using your […]

MISO Hosts Winter Refuel & Cultural Exchange Event

Fifty guests attended a Winter Refuel & Cultural Exchange Event hosted by the Minority and International Scientists Organization (MISO) on Thursday, Dec. 7. The event, hosted in L-403, brought students, faculty and staff together for free wellness care packages, free Mediterranean food and an opportunity to meet this year’s MISO student leaders: President Amaya Lewis, […]

PhD Student Spotlight: Kara Vasilew

In her four years in Graduate Medical Sciences, Kara Vasilew has used both her scientific acumen to perform novel research and her voice to advocate for wide-reaching change across the Medical Campus and beyond. Vasilew entered Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine in 2020 under the PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences (PiBS). Vasilew […]