{"id":72042,"date":"2020-03-18T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=72042"},"modified":"2020-03-18T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:03:42","slug":"3-18-2020-email-from-gms-associate-provost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2020\/03\/18\/3-18-2020-email-from-gms-associate-provost\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/18\/2020 Email From GMS Associate Provost"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To:\u00a0 GMS PhD Students
\nFrom:\u00a0 Debbie Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD,\u00a0ad interim<\/em>\u00a0Associate Provost and GMS Associate Dean
\nDate:\u00a0 March 18, 2020
\nRE:\u00a0PhD Student Stipends<\/p>\n

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Dear PhD Students,<\/p>\n

As you are well aware, we are working hard to face the challenges of COVID-19.\u00a0 We also know that it is bringing stress and anxiety to our daily lives.\u00a0As the facts change, we continually need to re-evaluate our plans and do what is safe for the greater BUMC community.\u00a0 As stated in\u00a0President Brown\u2019s announcement<\/a>\u00a0last night as well as\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Taylor\u2019s 3\/14<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dr. Antman\u2019s 3\/15<\/a>\u00a0 memos, we are required\u00a0to minimize the number of people (staff, faculty & students) on the Medical Campus as of today, March 18. \u00a0This directly affects ongoing\u00a0research, but unfortunately is unavoidable.<\/p>\n

We want you to know that even though you may not be able to work in your lab all PhD students will continue to receive their stipends.\u00a0 There is research-related work (data analysis, writing, scholarship) that can be completed remotely and we encourage you to do so. We know that students have many concerns but receiving your PhD stipend should not be one.<\/p>\n

We want you to know that BU, BUSM and GMS are diligently working to prepare our research labs for slow-down and meet the needs of our research and academic community. We have many students preparing to defend their dissertations in the coming weeks and we have moved these to an online format.\u00a0 Please visit the\u00a0PhD Dissertation Defense Seminar<\/a>\u00a0webpage to support your fellow students and obtain the URL (as they become available).\u00a0 We know these are extraordinary times but be assured we have, and will continue to, have your best interests in mind with each decision we make.<\/p>\n

If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to Student Affairs (gmssa@bu.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n

With best regards,
\nDebbie<\/p>\n


\nDeborah Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD<\/strong>
\nAssociate Provost\u00a0ad interim
\n<\/em>Graduate Medical Sciences<\/strong>
\nMake a Difference<\/em>\u00a0at\u00a0GMS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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To:\u00a0 GMS PhD Students From:\u00a0 Debbie Stearns-Kurosawa, PhD,\u00a0ad interim\u00a0Associate Provost and GMS Associate Dean Date:\u00a0 March 18, 2020 RE:\u00a0PhD Student Stipends   Dear PhD Students, As you are well aware, we are working hard to face the challenges of COVID-19.\u00a0 We also know that it is bringing stress and anxiety to our daily lives.\u00a0As the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16806,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72043,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72042\/revisions\/72043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}