Welcome to Fall 2023 at Graduate Medical Sciences!
Welcome to Fall 2023 at Graduate Medical Sciences! This semester, we are welcoming 459 new students to GMS, including 408 master’s students and 51 PhD students. These students represent 16 master’s programs and six PhD programs. The cohort comes from 17 different countries and 40 states. They attended 215 undergraduate institutions. This semester’s new students […]
STaRS, UROP and SPIN Scholars Present at GMS Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium
This year’s Summer Training as Research Scholars (STaRS) cohort culminated their 10-week onsite internships with the Graduate Medical Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium held on Aug. 11. Hosted in Hiebert Lounge, the GMS Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium gave the STaRS scholars an opportunity to present their independent research projects to audiences of Boston University Medical […]
PA Class of 2026 Celebrates White Coat Ceremony
The Class of 2026 Physician Assistant students officially marked their entry into the professional study and practice of medicine during their Aug. 1 White Coat Ceremony. The cohort’s 20 students comprise the tenth class of the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) program, which graduated its first students in 2016. Since then, […]
Forty-five New Students Arrive to Campus for Oral Health Sciences Orientation
The Master of Science in Oral Health Sciences program welcomed 45 new students to the Class of 2024 at its July 27 Orientation event. This year’s class represents 15 different states, as well as Puerto Rico, Canada and China. Massachusetts is heavily represented in the incoming class with nine students, followed by New Jersey (5 […]
C3 Hosts First Ice Cream Social of Summer 2023
The GMS Community Catalyst Center brought its popular Ice Cream Socials back for Summer 2023! C3 hosted the first social on Thursday, June 22 in the C3 Suite (L-306). Students on campus for the summer — as well as GMS faculty and staff — gathered to take a break from the work day, catch up, […]
GMS Celebrates Pride at 2023 Red Sox Pride Celebration Game
Congratulations to the eight GMS students who won tickets to the Boston Red Sox Pride Celebration game on Tuesday, June 13! The raffle, held by the Community Catalyst Center, ran for one week between May 31 and June 7. The students who won the raffle included: Darby Gavin Mylene Gorzynski Varuna Jasodanand Ashley Mainville Anosha […]
Pride 2023: LGBTQIA+ Resources from BU and Beyond
Happy 2023 Pride Month! In honor of Pride, we have compiled a list of resources for celebrating and supporting our LGBTQIA+ community. Below, you will find resources, information, and events, from Boston University, the greater Boston community and beyond. We recognize that this is not an exhaustive list, and we are always willing to add more […]
Congratulations to the GMS Class of 2023!
Over 300 Graduate Medical Sciences students walked during the 2023 Commencement exercises at the Boston University Track & Tennis Center on Thursday, May 18. The day’s events included two ceremonies: the Master’s Convocation Ceremony at 10 a.m. and the MD & PhD Convocation Ceremony at 3 p.m. The ceremonies welcomed graduates from August 2022 and […]
Two GMS Students Win Big at Annual Innovate@BU New Venture Competition
Teams Win $72,000 in Funding at Innovate@BU’s New Venture Competition BU Today; May 2, 2023 Congratulations to two GMS students and their teams for winning big in this month’s annual Innovate@BU New Venture Competition! Stamatios Liapis (PhD, Computational Neuroscience, ’23) and his team from Enlaye won the General Track first-place prize of $20,000. Shen Ning […]
2023 Outstanding Student Achievement Award: Master’s Research Category
Erika Minetti ’23 Master’s in Medical Sciences Program After eight years at Boston University – first as an undergraduate student, then as a research technician and as a clinical research coordinator – Erika Minetti is now preparing to graduate from the Master’s of Science in Medical Sciences (MAMS) program through Graduate Medical Sciences. […]