GMS Hosts 5 Days of Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week Events

Graduate Medical Sciences Student Affairs, GMS Professional Development and the Community Catalyst Center celebrated the accomplishments of our students during Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week from April 7 to 11. Throughout the week, we hosted a variety of events that brought students together for community building, social interaction, academic enrichment, wellness, and professional development. Read the full recap below! Monday, April 7: Succulents, Snacks & Student Wellbeing Student... More

Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers, Talks Transferable and Career-Relevant Skills

Graduate Medical Sciences was thrilled to welcome Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers, back to campus on Wednesday, Oct. 16, for "How to Evaluate, Build and Highlight Transferable and Career-Relevant Skills." The 90-minute seminar and workshop was sponsored by the Community Catalyst Center and GMS Professional Development. Students from a wide variety of GMS programs, both master's and PhD, attended the seminar to learn how to... More

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. Check out a full list of GPSAW week events at GMS... More

Propel Careers CEO Lauren Celano Presents CV & Resume Workshop to GMS Students

Graduate Medical Sciences welcomed Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers, to campus on Wednesday, Feb. 21 for "Looking Your Best on Paper: Building a Resumé for Industry and a CV for Academia." The event was sponsored by the Community Catalyst Center (C3) and Boston University Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BU's BEST). Eighteen students from a variety of GMS master's and PhD programs attended the interactive... More

GMS Alumna Chadene Tremaglio, PhD, Talks Careers in Science, Teaching, and Balancing with Parenthood

Boston University Broadening Experience in Scientific Training (BU’s BEST) hosted GMS alumna Chadene Tremaglio, PhD, for a lunchtime Alumni Career Talk with Graduate Medical Sciences students. The event, hosted on Tuesday, Dec. 5, in L-403, filled the classroom with 36 registrants for Tremaglio’s visit. Tremaglio’s presentation, titled “My Adventures in Balancing a Career in Science and Motherhood,” discussed her assistant professor position at USJ, her career... More

C3 Gear-Up Week Brings Community Building Events to First Month of Class

The Community Catalyst Center marked the beginning of the fall semester with “Gear-Up Week,” hosted from Sept. 11 to 15. Throughout the week, five different events gave students the opportunity to build their on-campus community, pick up some C3 swag and food and learn tips and tricks to succeed academically and personally during their time at GMS. Learn more about the week’s events below: Sip N’ Study Raffle Students... More

Celebrate Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week with GMS and C3!

April 3 to 7 marks Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week, and we are excited to mark the occasion at Graduate Medical Sciences! We have a full week of events planned by GMS, the Community Catalyst Center and our collaborators. Check out our GPSAW calendar below, and click here to see a list of all BU-wide events happening next week. View a full GMS GPSAW event flyer... More

GMS Travels to Anaheim, CA, for ABRCMS Conference

Graduate Medical Sciences was thrilled to send several representatives to the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS), held from Nov. 9 through 12 in Anaheim, CA.  For 20 years, ABCRMS has been a leading conference for underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Attending students had the chance to view research presentations, network, attend professional development seminars and speak to graduate institutions about... More

GMS Attends SACNAS Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Graduate Medical Sciences was well represented at the National Diversity in STEM Conference (NDiSTEM), hosted by the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) from Oct. 27 to 29 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. GMS representatives included Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion Angelique Harris, PhD, as well as PhD student Juao-Guilherme and MD/PhD student Aria Pearlman Morales. The SACNAS NDiSTEM conference... More

BU PREP Hosts Fourth Annual End-of-Year Research Symposium

The 2021-2022 cohort of the Boston University School of Medicine Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (BU PREP) closed out a successful year of substantial research at the program's fourth annual end-of-year symposium last week. Hosted in the Instructional Building on June 3, the symposium featured 30-minute research presentations from the cohort's four scholars: "Evaluating the Impact of Defective HIV Viruses on Immune System," presented by Viviana Dominguez... More