Spring 2022 Library Hours
The Alumni Medical Library and the L11 Testing Center will be closed Monday, Jan. 17. Regular hours will resume Tuesday, Jan. 18.
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1110 CLASSROOM
(Floor L11) | Monday - Friday | 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m. | 6 a.m.-9 p.m. | Saturday & Sunday | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. | 6 a.m.-6 p.m. | | |
Faculty Awards Nomination Announcement
At the end of each academic year, BUSM recognizes faculty for their excellence in teaching and service. In the spirit of gratitude and reflection we invite you to nominate BUSM faculty for following awards:
Educator of the Year Award: These awards recognize faculty who deliver exceptional education to medical and/or graduate students, including didactic teaching, clinical teaching, or mentoring. Click here for selection criteria and past award recipients.
Stanley L. Robbins Award: BUSM's highest teaching honor, this award acknowledges scholars, teachers, or innovators in medical student education. Click here for the selection criteria and past award recipients.
Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award: This award, presented by The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, recognizes the value of humanism in the delivery of care to patients and their families. Click here for the selection criteria and past award recipients.
Please submit 1-2 page nominations to busmfao@bu.edu
Deadline: Friday, Feb. 11
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Save Zoom Recordings from Auto-deletion | New Ed Media Resources
Click on the links below for three important updates regarding BUMC IT-Educational Media technical support, documentation, resources, consulting/training:
Questions? Email edtech@bu.edu or contact Associate Director Jana Mulkern/617-358-0990 or Director Lucy Milne/617-358-0880
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Boston.com
Experts are seeing hopeful signs in the Boston area’s COVID-19 wastewater data
Sabrina Assoumou, MD, MPH
Boston Globe
Any solution to Mass. and Cass must be informed by experiences of formerly incarcerated
Katherine Gergen Barnett, MD
Health Day
More Evidence That State Lotteries Didn't Boost Vaccination Rates
Anica Law, MD, MS
HeraldNet
Comment: Closing schools won’t halt omicron; it will hurt kids.
Elissa Perkins, MD, MPH
The Hill
Changes to lung cancer screening increase eligibility for Black women by 50 percent, study says
Julie Palmer, ScD
STAT
A cascade of Omicron-driven shortages puts U.S. hospitals in a bind
Elizabeth L. Mitchell, MD
Wall Street Journal
New Omicron Studies Help Explain Why the Variant Is Mild but Spreads Fast
Nahid Bhadelia, MD
WBUR Radio Boston
Greater Boston colleges prepare to welcome back students amid Omicron
Davidson Hamer, MD
WBUR
Making sense of the COVID pandemic's omicron phase
Nahid Bhadelia, MD
WGBH
Boston Public Radio full show: Jan. 10, 2022
Renee Crichlow, MD
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Date: Wednesday, Jan. 19
Time: Noon-1 p.m.
Virtual Event: Register here
All members of the BU Medical Campus are invited to a special presentation commemorating the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Guest Speaker: Harold Cox, MSSW
Professor, Community Health Sciences, BUSPH
Host: John Polk, MD
Associate Dean of Diversity & Inclusion, BUSM
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Date: Wednesday, Jan. 26
Time: 4-5:30 p.m.
Virtual Event: Register here
"Justice and Equity: Using Language to Ignite Culture Change"
Join Angelique Harris, PhD, BU Medical Campus Director of Faculty Development, BUMC Provost and BUSM Dean Karen Antman, MD, and BMC President and CEO Kate Walsh for a keynote and panel on the Glossary for Culture Transformation.
Learn why language is the core foundation of culture transformation, and explore our institutional commitment to anti-racism and building a culture of justice and belonging.
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Visiting Professor Lecture | Alan Smrcka, PhD
Date: Thursday, Jan. 27
Time: 2-3 p.m.
Virtual Event: Register here
“GPCR Signaling Networks”
Dr. Smrcka is the Benedict R. Lucchesi Collegiate Professor of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Professor of Pharmacology, Medical School and Professor of Biophysics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan.
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Medical Student Research Symposium
Date: Monday, Feb. 7
Time: Noon-2 p.m.
Location: Hiebert Lounge, Instructional Building
The event highlights research conducted by medical students who participated in the MSSRP for Summer 2021 and other students who have undertaken research. In the event of Covid restrictions, the symposium will move to an online format.
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Date: Thursday, Feb. 3
Time: Noon-1 p.m.
Virtual Event: Register here
Agenda to Follow
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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Solomon Carter Fuller, MD
Date: Thursday, Feb. 17
Time: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Virtual Event: Register here
Please join us for a virtual celebration honoring the life and legacy Solomon Carter Fuller, MD, the first Black man to graduate from BUSM in 1897. A renowned psychiatrist, neurologist, pathologist and educator, he worked with Dr. Alois Alzheimer and practiced in the Boston area before joining the BUSM faculty in 1919. Upon his retirement from academic medicine in 1933, he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Neurology, and continued in private practice for many years.
The daylong event is sponsored by the BUSM Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Diversity & Inclusion and Alumni Association Offices; and the BU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.
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