President's Update
An Announcement from M'11 President, Peter Evangelista
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Soft CI [News From Around Campus]
The president and your uterus
David Einstein, M’11
By the end of this election cycle, medical students will have read play-by-play debate coverage in the morning Metro and watched Palin’s best moments in YouTube clips posted to Facebook. They may have even seen some coverage of pressing issues like the economic recession, if only in Saturday Night Live skits centered on the celebrated plumber Joe. But according to Marcia Boumil, Associate Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine, the issue of abortion and other reproductive rights has received “surprisingly little coverage” in the media. On Monday, October 20 the Medical Students For Choice and American Medical Women’s Association hosted Professor Boumil in an investigation of reproductive rights in the upcoming election.
Maria's New Digs
Nizar Taki, M'11
Ask some students who they believe the most important person in the medical school is and you will get a variety of answers. Perhaps it is Dean Rosenblatt, the dean of the medical school, because of his important decisions regarding the finances and curriculum of the school. Perhaps it is Dean Neumeyer, the dean of admissions, since he ultimately decides the composition of TUSM’s classes. Or perhaps it is the professors, who spend their time tirelessly doing research as well as passing their knowledge on to us.
However, be you a med student, grad student, member of the staff, construction worker, or security guard, you certainly know who Maria is, if you have not already come to rely on her for coffee or food to get you through the day. On exam day or when you just can’t stay awake for one more lecture, Maria can be the most important person in the school as far as our education and well-being are concerned. For many of us, Maria is like a mother away from home, so I sat down with her during lunch one day to ask her a few questions.
Food 4 Thought
Michael Garshick, M’11
Throngs of people now mill about the newly renovated fourth floor, attracted by the new café which is now open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. After many trips to Au Bon Pain, explorations into Chinatown, and aimless wandering around the school in search of free food, Tufts Medical finally has some “Food 4 Thought.”
Dense CI [News From The Lecture Hall ]
Sackler: The Arctic
Marisa Mann, M'12
Small group sessions for the first month of this semester were filled with hot tea, goose bumps, and shivering legs on the women that mistakenly wore skirts on Thursdays to appear “professional” for Interviewing. “I’m so cold I’m freezing my nips off,” quipped Pat Burns, M’12.
Irregular CI [Features and the Like]
Lunch with a legend
Andy Geneslaw, M'12 and Ilana Traynis, M'12
The door clicks shut at 8:17, so early in the morning that any sound is far more audible than it has a right to be, as some coffee-infused straggler sidles into a corner seat. A few heads swivel towards the back of the lecture hall in response. Dr. Peter Bullock, already facing the rear of the auditorium, clearly notices, but it's difficult to gauge from the staccato pattern of his speech whether he's at all bothered by this. Clad in a bright blue Oxford-cloth shirt and dark pants, with a head of unruly white hair, he clutches a laser pointer between both hands as if it might at any moment bite him and break free. His is the nervous vibe of a man who has spent the morning thinking extremely hard, only to be eluded to the last. And, as if in sympathy to this quality, the majority of the lecture hall is watching him, engaged.
Gutenberg Press 2.0: Organ Printing
Ashwini Bapat, M’12
In this age of extraordinary technological advances, the concept of printing organs should come as no surprise. In 2003, the novel idea of using computer- and jet-based technology to build human organs was introduced by scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina and since then has been an up-and-coming area of research.